Friday, April 12, 2013
US and western leaders expecting SL to Implement the Resolution tabled by US on
21st March 2013 at the 22nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Conflict to return unless grievances addressed: US warns Lanka - Colombo,
Apr 9, 2013, (PTI):
Source:- http://www.deccanherald.com/content/324916/conflict-return-unless-grievances-addressed.html
“Warning Sri Lanka that conflict could return unless it addresses the grievances of minority Tamils, the US said it would renew its "consideration of all mechanisms available" against the country over the human rights issue.”
US Ambassador Michele Sison said Monday Apr 9, 2013 night that “important steps in achieving real reconciliation” had not even begun since Colombo declared an end to decades of separatist war in May 2009.
Indian political parties were on a fact finding mission to the island, meeting various Tamil political, civil society, chamber of commerce and former civil members in Jaffna.
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/Sri+Lanka/articles/YNKHLTNczkU/Sri+Lanka+Colombo+answers+Indian+political
“Tamil delegates in Jaffna were unanimous in explaining to the delegation of Indian political party epresentatives that India talking about 13th Amendment or about 13 plus, would not help
Eezham Tamils under the unitary character of the Sri Lankan constitution,” sources in Jaffna
said on 10th April 2013 Wednesday under the aegis of the Indian High Commission and the
Indian Consulate in Jaffna.
G. L. Peris, Mahinda Rajapaksa’s External Affairs
Minister says “Never Accept Geneva Resolution”
“On 10
th April 2013, G.L. Peiris SL External Affairs Minister told that Government did not concur with the US-sponsored resolution adopted at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions on March 22. This resolution cannot be accepted as a result.” “Soon after the war ended in 2009, the High Commissioner Navi Pillay called for an international investigation. In her report, she reaffirmed her position. We reject it,” G.L. Peiris said. “Sri Lanka cannot acquiesce with the resolution adopted. First and foremost among the reasons for such a decision is that the resolution calls for an oral update on Sri Lanka at the 24th session in September this year, and a comprehensive report at the 25th session in 2014.” “It means Sri Lanka will figure on the UN agenda every six months. When we survey the global situation, Sri Lanka is not a country with a troubling situation in the world. The proportionality of this resolution cannot be accepted as a result,” G.L. Peiris said.
On 10
th April 2013 G. L. Peris contradicted the UNHRC resolution. Sri Lanka will never demilitarize or implement the resolution tabled by US on 21 st March 2013 at the 22nd session of the UNHRC in the North and East of Sri Lanka. In 2012 at the 21
st
session SL accepted to implement LLRC recommendation and
submitted report at UNHRC. One year passed SL didn’t implement anything.
Now UN tabled a resolution at the 22
nd
session in 2013 and passed it. Even after
that Sri Lanka have increased military camps and HSZ in North and East and SL
commander admits converting HSZ into permanent Sinhala Military Zone (SMZ).
SL Forest Department using new tactics to prevent Tamils from re-settlement in their
own homes and land by lets loose a number of wild elephants brought in from Sinhala
areas on resettled Tamils in Ampaa'rai claim lives of Tamils in Batticaloa
Sri Lankan Forest Department, in recent weeks, willfully brought in a number of wild elephants
from Sinhala areas into the jungles adjacent to Koa'ra'laip-pattu a Tamil area South Division of
the Batticaloa district, where uprooted Tamil people have re-settled after the end of war.
The Divisional Secretary of Koa'ra'laippattu South, Batticaloa Mr Thanabalasundaram, admitted
that two Tamil civilians have been killed by elephants. The lives and the livelihood of 3,000
Tamil villagers are threatened by the presence of more than 50 wild elephants brought in by the
Sinhala forest department.
Wild elephants in large numbers are systematically driven into villages where Tamils
predominantly live in the Ampaa'rai district by a section of Sinhalese connected to the Sri
Lankan Forest Department, presumably to prevent the uprooted Eelam Tamils from returning
and resettling in their places of origin, sources in Ampaa'rai said.
The Colombo government that exploits the poverty status of these people, while not providing
them with the basic amenities, sponsors Sinhala colonisation schemes that also include
settlement of SL military men in the area. So far, after 2009, seven new Sri Lanka Army camps
have been established in Ampaa'rai district to elivate the colonisation scheme.
Two innocent men, one in Punanai West, and a young boy in Kudumpimalai have been killed by
the elephants and many got injured in addition to loss of properties, according to the Divisional
Secretary Mr Thanabalasundaram.
The cultivation by the Tamil villagers includes various plantains, jams and vegetables. The
elephants have also caused extensive damage to the coconut trees and mango trees in the
villages.
Similar rampages by elephants are also reported in Aayiththiyamalai village in Vavu'natheevu of
Batticaloa district.
The wild elephants brought in by the SL forest department in Kudumpimalai, Aththikaaddu-veddai, Thikili-vadduvaan and Meeraan-ku'lam villages have chains around
their necks and a yellow identification tag fixed to their ears, the villagers, who have
witnessed SL forest department officials bringing in wild elephants using heavy vehicles
with security to provided to them by the occupying SL military.
Despite, their complaints to the Divisional Secretary of Koa'ra'laippattu South and to the SL
Forest Department officials in Batticaloa district, the practice of bringing in more wild elephants into the jungles near their villages is continuing, the villagers complain.
The reports of wild elephants of SL Forest Department going amok on Tamils in Batticaloa
comes following the reports of similar attacks reported last month in Ampaa'rai district.
Last year, people in Mullaiththeevu district of Vanni clashed with the occupying SL military for
defending the SL Forest Department officials who were bringing in wild elephants from the
South into the jungles of Vanni causing immense destruction to their agriculture in addition to
the threat of life.
Sri Lanka’s military commander occupying Jaffna, Maj. Gen. Mahinda Hathurusinghe,
openly admitted to media in Jaffna that the so-called High Security Zone of Valikaamam
on the Northern coast of Jaffna Peninsula, occupied and displaced of its Tamil
inhabitants in the guise of High Security Zone (HSZ) two decades ago, will now be
converted into a permanent Sri Lanka/ Sinhala Military Zone (SMZ).
Meanwhile, Mayiliddi, the only fishing harbour of the Eelam Tamils in the northern
coast that had facilities for long-stay fishing in the seas is not anymore belong to Tamils.
With the open declaration of the Sinhala military on the creation of SMZ and Mayiliddi coming under it, the
Mayiliddi fishermen are now asked to move to Tho’ndaimaanaa’ru, which according to the fishermen is not as
suitable as the Mayiliddi coast.
SL military demolishes Hundreds of Tamil houses in Jaffna ‘HSZ’. Sri Lanka military occupying Jaffna
has started demolishing hundreds of houses of Eelam Tamils in the stretch of land at Valikaamam that
was occupied by the Sinhala military in the guise of ‘High Security Zone (HSZ)’ two decades back.
What do US, Britain and west think about the Sinhala Military decleration and Tamils fragmentary
situation without a permanent solution to the ethnic problem? Definitely worried, confused and
mystified!
Under This Prevailing Situation How Can The Tamils Live Peacefully With The
Sinhalese Integrated Within United Sri Lanka?
What Action The US, Britain And Western Leaders Are Going To Take To Help The
Tamils from This Undemocratic Tyrannical unfair Sri Lankan actions?
Srilankan Government's main purpose in obtaining time from UN in 2012 and again in
March 2013 is to create Srilanka a Sinhala only Nation by changing the demographic
identity of the North and East.
Sri Lankan army and navy who were in the highly security zones are not allowing any of the Tamils to go back to
their own houses. SL Army is newly erecting or building concrete posts to put up barbed wire fences to
strengthen those areas. This clearly shows that the Sinhalese and the Sinhala government is very firm in
not implementing any of the recommendations accepted by SL or tabled by the US on 21
st March 2013
at 22
nd
session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Further ……….
Now, these HSZ areas are contrived and used by Sinhala military for cultivation of vegetable and other fruits like
grapes, lime, mangoes for sale by Sinhala military intelligence, who are now appointed in small vegetable shops
and tea tuck-shops, which are setup to replace the Army check points at every main junction in Jaffna and Vanni
areas.
This is to hoodwink the UN and western world including British politicians to establish that SL Army have
reduced the army check points in the civilian areas.
But, actually these army check points are replaced by vegetable shops and
tea tuck-shops to monitor Tamils daily movements, activities and to keep
them under fear of the military control.
The war is over, proclaims everyone, including the USA and India. The Tamil public righteously
expected the return of their houses and ancestral properties if the war was over. There was propaganda that resettlement takes place stage by stage in the HSZ, which was also endorsed by all the
Establishments in complicity.
Then how, with whose authority the decision has been taken now to raze down the ancestral houses of
Eelam Tamils in the so-called HSZ, ask the concerned people up-rooted for more than two decades
and finally lost everything to the designs of the genocidal partners.
Tamils are fighting and will continue to fight until the last Tamil is alive for
their lost rights to live in peace, dignity and self-determination in their own
homeland which existed for several thousands of years. Past history will give
evidence and conformation. Every world leaders who try to suppress should
know that Tamils have the right to fight for national self-determination.
Sri Lankan Sinhalese can't create a "Sinhala only Nation” in the Tamil's
traditional Homeland, they can create it in their own land, and allow the
Tamils to live in peace with dignity in our own home land.
TAMIL COMMUNITY CAN’T LIVE UNITE WITH SINHALESE ANY MORE, SO,
SEPERATION IS THE BEST SOLUTION FOR THE TAMILS OF EELAM.
Tamils of Eelam wants a feasible remedy to what has happened and what are happening now?
Tamils kind request to implement the following and finally hold the referendum
1. “This resolution expresses its revulsion over the dreadful atrocities being committed by the Sri Lankan
Government against the Tamil Minority in Sri Lanka and demands that Sri Lanka should ceases forthwith its
unlawful harassment of Tamils, seizure of their properties, businesses and schools and respects the Human
Rights of this minority
2. “It also calls on the international community through the United Nations to impose economic and diplomatic
sanctions against the Sri Lankan Government and follow this with instructions to the International Court of
Justice to investigate crimes against the Tamil minority during the last phase of the war and to bring charges
against the perpetrators of these crimes
3. “We also call on the Commonwealth Secretariat to examine the charges of Anti-Tamil atrocities against the
Tamil Minority. In this regard we urge The British Government, an influential member of the Commonwealth to
abandon its policy of “neutrality” and ask the Sri Lankan Government to respect the Human Rights of
minorities.
4. “The occupying Sri Lankan armed forces in Tamil’s traditional areas should be withdrawn according to LLRC
acceptance and freedom of expression, assembly, religion and press be restored to all people across ethnic,
religious, and political boundaries.
Referendum for Tamils
“We urge US, the European Union and The British government to support a Referendum in the North and
East of Srilanka, similar to South Sudan, Kosovo, or East Timor to gain independence and to find out whether the
Tamils want to live united with Sinhalese or to go free and live separately in their own home land
“Tamil Eelam”.
Note:- Tamils only to vote within Sri Lanka and outside Sri Lanka where the Tamils are living, on the pattern of
the South Sudan, Kosovo, or East Timor. Sri Lanka has endured more than a six decades long civil war in which
the government persecuted and victimised a powerless minority. Like the southern Sudanese, Kosovars, or East
Timor Sri Lankan Tamils need a sovereign homeland in which they can be safe and free”.
Tamils urgently look forward to hear from European Union, UN, US and The British government.
Senthinathan,
Secretary General Tamils Rights Action for Peace & Development.
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