Chennai techies to demonstrate for international probe into Sri Lanka’s war crimes
Chennai,Mar 15 (TruthDive) : Chennai is all set to witness a massive demonstration to press for international investigation into genocidal killings, war crimes and human rights abuses committed by Sri Lanka during the decades’-old civil war in 2009.
Coordinated by Save Tamils Movement (STM), the Chennai-based forum of IT professionals, people from various strata of society like students, poets, writers, artists, fishermen, transgenders, human rights activists, lawyers, IT techies, doctors, labourers, Christian minorities among many others are taking part in the demonstration to lend their support for the cause of Eezham Tamils who are still undergoing harassment and deprivation in Sri Lanka under Mahinda Rajapaksa regime.
The demonstration is scheduled to be held at Valluvar Kottam in the city tomorrow – 16 March, Sunday at 10 am.
The representatives of Save Tamils Movement are pressing New Delhi either to make revisions in the resolution passed by United States or table a resolution at UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for setting up an investigation tribunal to aid independent international probe into the war abuses committed by Sri Lanka.
This demonstration comes at a time during the annual meeting of the UNHRC which later this month will be asked to consider a US-led draft resolution calling for an international investigation into allegations that Lankan security forces put 40,000 Tamil civilians to death in 2009.
STM appeals to Tamils and like-minded people to join hands with them at the demonstration to seek justice for fellow Tamils at Eezham.
