Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations: Witness of Sri Lankan Govt. warcrimes.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Witness of Sri Lankan Govt. warcrimes.

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Posted on: Sat, May 8 2010 5:23 PM

PETITION TO BRING SRI LANKAN WAR CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE

By twonations

[Your First & Last Names]

[Your City], [Your Province]

[Today's Date]

Dear Respectable Canadian Parliamentarians and Media officials,

Verdict: Sri Lanka Found Guilty of War Crimes

Permanent People’s Tribunal, Dublin Ireland

PETITION TO BRING SRI LANKAN WAR CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE

International human rights laws and fundamental freedoms are being routinely violated by Sri Lanka with impunity while being witnessed by the international community. Ethnic Tamils are being arrested, detained, abducted, tortured, raped, summarily executed, and are being illegally confined in the hundreds of thousands inside internment camps lacking sufficient aid or care. The Sri Lankan government continues its adamant obstruction of justice and despotism of press freedom of which you are well aware.

Former UN spokesperson for Srilanka, Gordon Weiss told Australia's ABC news that up to 40,000 civilians have been killed the final days of May 2009. Prof Philip Alston, the United Nations Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions also recently told Australia's SBS news that the video's which were broadcasted in Channel 4 UK is Genuine and it is a Crime against humanity.

Scholars, human rights organizations, NGOs, eye-witness accounts, satellite imagery, videos and credible evidence held by the UN and your countries pointed to heinous war crimes which have now been proven true by the Permanent People’s Tribunal verdict on January 16, 2010. This must be used as a basis for International Criminal Court trials and further detailed investigations which are overdue.

It is historically understood justice must be served before the advent of peace. Without punishment of masterminds and perpetrators of war crimes, there are no assurances that the carnage of Tamil civilians will not repeat in the future. We must remember knowledge makes us accountable. The direct or indirect abetting of war crimes and understating the death toll or grievances are unacceptable at all levels. Therefore, considering

I. That the Sri Lankan Government is guilty of war crimes

II. That the Sri Lankan Government is guilty of crimes against humanity and

III. omnipresence of evidence of war crimes and knowledge thereof,

I urgently call upon you to:

1. Act responsibly and ethically to promote human rights by supporting all efforts and take initiative to bring Sri Lankan war criminals to justice.

2. Join scholars and human rights organizations to support and recommend to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to trial the Sri Lankan government political leaders and military commanders for the crimes against humanity.

3. Grant asylum to all genuine ethnic Tamil refugees fleeing persecution from the Sri Lankan government.

4. Implement sanctions in concert with the European Union GSP+ trade benefits termination and suspension from the commonwealth until the Sri Lankan human rights record substantially improves and ethnic Tamil civilians are freed from internment camps to express their rights and desires without persecution.

Thank you,

Yours Truly,

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PENALIZE THE WAR CRIMINALS