A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Systematic Genocide of Tamils
BY ATHITHAN JAYAPALAN-MARCH 2014
As the 25thsession of UNHRC is unfolding in Genève, we are told that the supposed international community’s attention is directed towards the island of Sri Lanka.It was thus expected that the Sri Lankan state would be restricted in its conduct concerning human rights violation and Tamils. Furthermore the US sponsored draft resolution leaked on 3rd of March and was condemned by Tamil organizations around the world for being vague, toothless and in the continued facilitation of Sri Lanka’s domestic mechanisms of investigation. However for the Sri Lankan state and its officials, the possibility of US sponsored international scrutiny and pressure was visibly building up fears of punitive actions.In that vein, the Sri Lankan state was looking for means to silence witnesses and other evidence of the allegations it is confronted with.
