Army’s inhuman Ranjith group head identified

 
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(April 24, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka Guardian exposed the gruesome account of the rape and murder of Mrs Anita Annalingam in Jaffna by the clandestine army intelligence unit called Ranjith group coming under the purview of the Army’s Intelligence Head, Major General H. K. G. Hendawitharane.

The Sri Lanka Guardian contact in Vavuniya was able to tracked down the unit currently operating in the Vanni. Our source said, the head of the unit is one Mohammed, a fair skinned medium height stocky man and he is named by Major General Hendawithrane as Ranjith to mislead his identity. Under Mohamed’s command, ruthless men are functioning, carrying out worst forms of human rights abuses on the victims.

Mrs Anita Annalingam’s gang rape and murder is the telling story that speaks volume of the violent nature of the Rajith group headed by Mohammed.

Sri Lanka Guardian also reported that: ‘We have photographic evidence of an individual who experienced repeated torture that included burning of his body and genitals with cigarettes and hot iron box and scars of beating with wire rods by Ranjith himself and his group. The person is physically disabled and cannot engage in any heavy work’.

The complaint made by this individual to the government Human Rights body did not result in any intervention, but the facts provided to them were passed on to the Ranjith Unit, resulting in the victim being put under further torture process for complaining to the HR body.

Our inquiry reveal Mohamed has been entrusted with the task of keeping a tab on Tamil residents in the Vanni area. Families connected to the former LTTE cadres and those cadres released by the government are under the watchful eyes of this group. Those identified as risky residents are kidnapped and taken away and their whereabouts kept secret. The clandestine nature of the Rajith group absolves responsibility of the army in their violent conduct.
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The leaked-UNSG’s Advisory Panel Report on Sri Lanka - Part One

The issue is only of academic interest now. The information published so far on the UNSG’s Advisory Panel Report (as leaked) and some of t...
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UN 'could have prevented' civilian deaths

24 April, 2011

Gorden Weiss says the UN should have exerted pressure on the Sri Lankan government to stop attacks on civilians						"Casualty figures from a part of that (UN) armoury"

 

The United Nations should have done more to prevent civilian casualties at the last stage of the war in Sri Lanka, a former UN spokesman said.

Gorden Weiss, the UN spokesman in Colombo during the peak of the conflict, said the UN should have exerted pressure on the Sri Lankan government to stop attacks on civilians.

"I believe that the UN should have used greater pressure in order to assuage the kind of assaults that it seems was made on civilians," he told BBC Sinhala service, Sandeshaya.

"Certainly, casualty figures from a part of that armoury."    Full Story>>>
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Politics ruined independent bodies - CJ

24 April, 2011
 By Saroj Pathirana
BBC Sinhala service

	The 18 amendment was brought in by the Govt as an Emergency Bill

Efforts to reduce the sweeping powers of the executive president failed due to the actions of Sri Lanka’s opposition, says the chief justice.

CJ Asoka de Silva said the status quo of the 1978 constitution that authorised the executive president to make all senior appointments to the judiciary was re-established by the 18 amendment as a result. 

“Before the 17 amendment, the president or the prime minister had the discretionary power to make appointments to the judiciary,” he told BBC Sinhala service, Sandeshaya.

“The 17 amendment was brought to change that discretionary power.”

'Re-consider'

The amendment paved the way for the establishment of independent commissions for human rights, police, judicial affairs and elections.

It might even be better if we re-consider the system again CJ Asoka de Silva

But with the 18 amendment that was passed by the parliament as an Emergency Bill becoming the law, the executive president is once again empowered with making the appointments without seeking the approval of the Constitutional Council.

“I am not saying the old system is good but it is because of the failure of our political parties that we are back with the same old system.”

CJ Asoka de Silva retires from the office in May after serving two years in the office.

The outgoing chief justice said “it is always better” a combined opinion especially on appointment and changes to the judiciary “than one person’s discretionary power.”

“It might even be better if we re-consider the system again,” he told BBC Sinhala service.

BBC Sandeshaya will broadcast a series of interviews with the outgoing CJ during the next few days.

Expert panel report indicts Lankan military

Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times
Colombo, April 24, 2011

Colombo, April 24, 2011
Artillery fire from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) positions targetted civilians inside the `no firing zone’ (NFZ) near the north eastern coast and bombed the United Nations (UN) hub, set up to aid displaced Tamils during the final stages of the civil war, the expert panel report to the UN has claimed. < P>Hindustan Times has a copy of the "Report of the Secretary General’s panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka", which was submitted to the UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s office, earlier this month, but is yet to be made public.

The government has rejected the report as biased and flawed and asked the UN chief not to publish it, as it could hurt post war reconciliation.
However, the report, already leaked in parts, said "tens of thousands of civilians" were killed in the final stages of the war that ended in May, 2009. In its entirety, the report gives details about the bloody fighting that took place between January and May that year.    Full Story>>>
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Sri Lanka Report Held by UN's Ban & Nambiar Partially Describes White Flag Killings Nambiar Involved In: Conflicts

Ban and Nambiar, Sri Lanka report still not shown

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 24 -- With the UN still withholding its Panel of Experts' report on war crimes in Sri Lanka, The Island in its ninth day of publishing portions of the reported that were leaked, presumptively by the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa, has run the “'White Flag' incident” section (see below). 

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The Spies Of The Eelam War

By Abdul H. Azeez

Between May 6 and May 10, 2009, thousands of IDP structures were removed from the CSZ, Analysis Area - The CSZ in northeastern Sri Lanka is shown in blue. The area covered by the AAAS analysis is outlined in red., Shell approach, and mortar positions - or each crater, the likely path of the approaching shell was derived based on ejecta patterns. , 342 graves (estimated) at this location. Image © 2009 GeoEye, Susan Wolfinbarger and Rohan Samarajiva.

It was May 2009, the Sri Lanka Army was advancing fast under heavy fire. The LTTE, or what remained of them were giving no quarter as the battles intensified. Things got ugly, and civilians died. After the dust settled, no one knew quite what happened. The winners rejoiced, while the losers were eliminated. But unbeknownst to the people on the ground, there were watchers far above in the skies recording their every move.
The pictures obtained by these satellites found their way through to various companies,   
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Is the Rajapaksa regime under siege? The West on a more aggressive stance

Is the Rajapaksa regime under siege?
The West on a more aggressive stance
The West on a more aggressive stance he Rajapaksa regime has come under intense international criticism on human rights and war crimes allegations. The US State Department Human Rights Report on Sri Lanka has excoriated the regime, Ban Ki-moon’s expert panel (going by leaked reports) seems to have indicted GoSL for war crimes. Tamil websites have published photos of the corpses of the LTTE’s Pulidevan and Nadesan, allegedly tortured and murdered after surrendering with white flags. Sonali Wickrematunga told the BBC’s Sandesaya programme that the state was covering up the murder of Lasantha because it is protecting the murderers. The regime should be reeling under these punches but continues in the same old way. It did well in Sinhalese electorates in the local government elections and this may be its source of confidence. Full Story>>>

Sri Lanka: UN Panel Report –Rajapaksa Cornered but Defiant - Making a Mockery of the UN - Part II

23-April-2011

 Sri Lanka: UN Panel Report –Rajapaksa Cornered but Defiant - Making a Mockery of the UN - Part II

Guest Column:  Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah ( May be read with paper No. 4434 in this site)Since day one the Rajapaksa regime has successfully manipulated the whole UN establishment including its Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, his chief of staff Nambiar and the UN Human Rights Council, and has in the process not only made a mockery of the UN system but made Ban him self look weak and not in control.

The regime has used every tactic in the book before, during and after its brutal war with the LTTE to cleverly out-maneuver the UN and twist Ban round its fingers. All this at a high cost amounting to colossal loss of lives; untold human suffering; obstruction of justice including distortion of the truth. The UN Panel of Expert’s Report has turned out to be an expose of the Rajapaksa regime’s conduct of the war and the aftermath. Although cornered, the Rajapaksa        
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1-Sri Lanka: Report of the UN Panel: Rajapakse under Siege:
2-Sri Lanka: The Tamils at Home and the Tamil Diaspora

DIS & DAT-A Bad New Year

 

DIS & DAT

 A Bad New Year
It has been a bad New Year for President Mahinda Rajapaksa
and his administration.
The New Year holidays commenced for the Rajapaksa administration with the UN experts panel on Sri Lanka handing over its report to the Sri Lankan Mission in New York on the 12th at 12.15 pm (NY time) to be precise.
The report dampened the holiday spirit of the government.
However, the Time poll on the most influential persons in the world was reported by the state media as a New Year “gift” for the President.
Rajapaksa reached up to the fourth slot in the list through online voting.
Nevertheless, the President’s “gift” seemed to have been taken back when his name was not included in the final list prepared by the Time editorial board
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The 2011 TIME 100 Poll Results and Ban Ki Moon’s Big Bang

April 21, 2011, 8:26 pm




By Rohana R. Wasala

The high rating President Mahinda Rajapaksa has got at the online 2011 TIME 100 Poll (4th place on the list) may be taken as an unintended New Year gift (and in effect, it would give some consolation) to the beleaguered Sri Lankans at a time when they are facing an onslaught of diplomatic terrorism as a punishment for the crime of having put behind them thirty years of relentless terrorist violence unleashed on the nation by a fascist organization with the moral and material support of outsiders. Whether this event itself is the result of a misfired ‘international’ political stratagem against the country is yet to be seen. But it has positive implications for us.

Following is how Mr Rajapaksa was introduced to the potential voters (the TIME readers):

Age: 65

Occupation: President of Sri Lanka

Previous TIME 100 appearances: 0

Since ending Sri Lanka's 26-year-long war against the Tamil Tigers in 2009, and grabbing control over once independent institutions like commissions on human rights and elections, Mahinda Rajapaksa has come to dominate the institutions of his nation more than any other democratically elected head of state. He challenged the U.S., the European Union and the U.N. to prosecute him for war crimes, confident that Russia, China and India would not support it — the latter two have billions of investment at stake in Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka faces its 'Srebrenica moment'

Gordon Weiss  The Australian  April 23, 2011

THE name "Srebrenica" is synonymous both with war crimes and the long reach of international justice.
The parallel is apt when I write that, with the release of a UN report, Sri Lanka has reached its "Srebrenica Moment".
In August 1995, a month after the mass execution of 8000 Muslim boys and men by the Bosnian Serb army, the full proportions of this notorious crime began to break to the wider world. David Rohde, an US reporter, had hiked through frontlines to reach the outskirts of the empty town.
Evidence of the systematic killing of males as they tried to flee the siege lay all about. The journalist wrote of prayer beads, human remains, bullet casings, shopping receipts and clothing scattered like confetti through the fields and forests. There were survivors. For days, weeks and months skeletal wraiths continued to emerge from their woodland hideouts. A young Bosnian friend of mine was Rohde's translator. She spoke with men as they appeared at the edge of forests near the town of Tuzla, held by Bosnian Muslim forces. They listened in disbelief at the stories of those who could barely believe their own tales of survival. They had been shelled, picked off by sniper fire, corralled into groups of hundreds who were then shot and machine-gunned.
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UN snubs Lanka objection to report

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UN snubs Lanka objection to report

April 22, 2011

The United Nations has made it clear that a report on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka would be released in full, rejecting demands by the nation to hold back it.

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Solidarity Is Morality, Our Future

by Ron Ridenour / April 22nd, 2011

The revolutionary [is] the ideological motor force of the revolution…if he forgets his proletarian internationalism, the revolution which he leads will cease to be an inspiring force and he will sink into a comfortable lethargy, which imperialism, our irreconcilable enemy, will utilize well. Proletarian internationalism is a duty, but it is also a revolutionary necessity. So we educate our people.
– Che Guevara in Socialism and Man

“Castillo de MORAL” read the label. Wine named Moral, that’s what Carsten gave me.
That was big of him, a strident Marxist-Leninist who sides 100% with the victims of invasions by imperialists. For him that …

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On Sri Lanka, After Russia Bashes UN Report, Ban Withholds It, Asks for 2d Term

Ban's own chief of staff Vijay Nambiar was involved in the so called white flag killings of surrenderees, as described in a filing with the International Criminal Court.

                                     

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 22 -- Shortly after reneging on his Spokesperson's Office repeated commitments that the UN Panel of Experts' report on Sri Lanka war crimes would be released “this week,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, "I'd like to really count on your strong support, leadership and guidance in continuing my work as secretary-general.”

In Colombo, Russia's Ambassador Valdimir P.Mikhaylov had the previous day appeared at a press conference with Defense chief and presidential brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa and said "unfortunately it seems that the panel of experts went beyond its task, at least as it had been made known to our representatives of New York... we speak not about a 'UN report', since it was prepared neither by a UN body or nor even by its request. It was just a personal initiative of the UN Secretary General.”

In this context, for Ban to ask Russia in this way and at this time not to veto the second term he wants seems

to many to telegraph that while the report may inevitably be released, Ban will not take serious action on it.  

Ban and Nambiar, Pascoe and 

Sri Lanka report still not shown

As leaked to The Island newspaper, presumptively by the government, the report urges Ban to himself investigate the UN's own compliance with international humanitarian law.

Ban's own chief of staff Vijay Nambiar was involved in the so called white flag killings of surrenderees, as described in a filing with the International Criminal Court.

 On Sri Lanka, After Russia Bashes UN Report, Ban Withholds It, Asks for 2d Term
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SRI LANKA: Cry from the Graves?

22-Apr-2011 

SRI LANKA: Cry from the Graves? 

Guest Column by Sivanendran  

The end of the three decade old civil war that pitted the government against the LTTE and divided the population created a reasonable expectation that Sri Lanka would be able to reach reconciliation and healing, which would pave the way for rapid economic progress. But alas the country appears to be getting more divided and polarised than ever before.  

Fifty years of ethnic cleansing have wiped out whole generations who knew any sort of peace, and have made cohabitation between the Tamils and the Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka virtually impossible. The Sinhala politicians have transformed the country into a counter-insurgency state like Columbia, in which repression, torture, imprisonment without trial and disappeared people are institutionally embedded. It appears that it is an extremely difficult task for the Sri Lankans to reverse this process. 

 Violation of Human Rights in Sri Lanka 

With the end of the civil war, there was a glimmer of hope in resolving the longstanding crisis. However, this is unlikely. The current regime having come back to power appears to block meaningful efforts at accountability of individuals for past violations of human rights.  

Sri Lanka will continue to be faced in the future by challenges of justice and reconciliation arising from the grave human rights abuses that have been committed by all armed groups in the course of the conflict, as documented over the years by international human rights groups and UN bodies, which have long declared that impunity reigns increasingly unchallenged in the country.  

When the Sri Lankan Government formally terminated the ceasefire agreement in January 2008, the previous UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, warned that violations of human rights and humanitarian law could entail individual criminal responsibility under international criminal law, including by those in positions of command. She and her successor, Navi Pillay, have had cause to repeat this warning on several occasions since. 

In the course of fighting, both sides violated humanitarian law. The LTTE forcibly conscripted adults and children, and forced civilians to travel with its retreating forces and to serve as a buffer against the approaching Sri Lankan army. Thousands of these civilians died when government forces fired artillery into areas densely populated with civilians, who were forced to remain at risk in the conflict zone. The LTTE reportedly opened fire on and killed civilians who attempted to escape. 

SRI LANKA: Cry from the Graves?                     Full Story>>>

Apr-22-2011 05:15

World Ignores Genocide of Sri Lanka's Tamil Population

Tim King Salem-News.com

Oh My God! - State-sponsored Terrorism against minority population. Warning- photos beyond graphic.

The spirit of the world's fragile populace is broken and failing to respond the right way to the most dire problems.

Truce monitor examines the bodies of two youth abducted in the Sri Lanka Army-controlled area. Photo TamilNet

(SALEM, Ore.) - The spirit of the world's fragile populace is broken and failing to

The terrible problems taking place in Palestine, which we write about frequently, are just one part of a torturous puzzle of bad intent born from human greed that spans parts of the Middle east.

This is especially easy to believe when examining the genocidal deaths of more than 300,000 Tamil men, women and children, estimated to have been killed or disappeared.

In 2009 alone, more than 35,000 Tamils are estimated to have violently or needlessly lost their lives. Because of the fear and desperation put forth by this, about 1.1 Million Tamils have fled the country.

The numbers are horrible, and include over 600,000 Tamil internal refugees (Internally displaced or evicted). And while this has taken place, more than 20,000 Tamil children have been orphaned and denied the possibility of living a normal life with their families.

And along with this, more than 35,000 Tamil widows.

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Petition against UN Panel’s report on accountability: Opposing what exactly?

*groundviews journalism For citizens22 Apr, 2011 Groundviews 

People signing a petition against the UN panel of experts’ report on Sri Lanka - Colombo Today(21 April) - Pic by Sampath Samarakoon

The report on accountability produced by the panel appointed by the UN Secretary General hasn’t yet officially released it to the public domain. What little is known of its contents comes from leaks published in the mainstream media. Sinhala mainstream media have not translated and published in full the leaked version of the executive summary. Commentary in the mainstream media, including in the newspaper the leaks are published in, is vituperatively dismissive. Even senior members of government haven’t been shared copies of the report. Scanned copies of what appears to be the original executive summary have started to appear online on individual blogs. The UN Country office says it has not seen a copy of the report. Mainstream media reportage has focussed on vehement government denials. In sum, there is little or no information on the UN Panel’s report and its official contents with a lot of spin and misinformation.
This however didn’t stop Private Transport Minister C.B. Ratnayake launching a campaign to collect a million signatures against the UN Panel’s report. With the UN to date uncertain as to when the official report will be released, it is entirely unclear how the people who signed up got their information to oppose the report’s findings after critical reflection over its content. If Mr. Rajiva Wijesinha, a soi disant voice of government unleashed on the international community is himself in the dark about the contents of the official report, it is very suspect whether Mr. Ratnayake actually knows what he is so publicly opposing.
This petition, and others that will invariably follow after the report’s official publication, is emblematic of Sri Lanka’s peculiar democracy, where highly emotive issues ratcheted up by expedient politicians with little or no grounding in actual fact are actually able to whip up mass appeal and support. Whether this is true over the long-term remains to be seen, but in the short-term, the mere fact that if successful, this petition will generate a million signatures of Sri Lankans who know little or nothing of what they oppose reflects the significant challenge of reconciliation and accountability, post-war.

• Petition against UN Panel’s report o                                   Full Story>>>

 

Sri Lanka UN report delayed as Government hits back

Thursday 21 April 2011

A UN report on the Sri Lanka war is delayed as the Sri Lankan Government warns it has gone too far. A key player in the Sri Lankan reconciliation process tells Channel 4 News the report is "vulgar".

The Sri Lankan government appears to have successfully delayed the publication of a critical UN report. By securing an agreement that the report's release would be held back until a Sri Lankan government response could be prepared, the Colombo authorities look to have forced the deferral of its release. It may be published over the Easter weekend, but is likely to receive much less global attention as a result.
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Sri Lanka: Releasing UN Report Would Do 'Irrevocable Damage'

Kurt Achin | New Delhi  April 21, 2011
 

Sri Lankans walk past a billboard of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and campaign slogans for people to join the protest against the U.N. report, Colombo, Apr 21 2011

 Hours before the release of a U.N. report about suspected war crimes committed by Sri Lanka's government, top officials in Colombo are pleading to keep the report secret, arguing it would derail the country'
sreconciliation process.
Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris said Thursday publication of the report "will cause irreparable damage to the reconciliation efforts of Sri Lanka."  Peiris says the United Nations should "reach out to Sri Lanka" as it emerges from"one of its darkest periods."
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Sri Lanka’s Post-War Foreign Policy Strategy: Europeans Out And Chinese In? – Analysis

April 21, 2011

By J Jeganaathan
As the US and its allies prepared to exit from Afghanistan after an unsuccessful military mission, Sri Lanka conspicuously etched a military triumph over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) shell-shocking the Tamils around the world. Although the victory was mainly attributed to precise military strategy and effective leadership at that time, it was Sri Lanka’s meticulous foreign policy based on realpolitik and adroit international diplomacy which actually helped in pulverizing the Tigers. However, the post-war period is fraught with a series of international allegations especially from the western countries about blatant human rights violations during the war. In this context it is imperative to examine what is Sri Lanka’s Foreign policy strategy after the War?                            Full Story>>>
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On Sri Lanka, As UN Delays Report, Pascoe Tells Press He Didn't Know

April 21, 2011 2:57 p.m.

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, April 21 -- In a loss of nerve that sadly is not surprising, the UN Secretariat on Thursday delayed its noon briefing in the expectation that it would belatedly release its Panel of Experts' report on war crimes in Sri Lanka -- and then did not release the report.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's acting Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq came in half an hour late and said that he “still expects” the report's release, but it did not happen at the briefing. He said Sri Lanka is being given another chance to submit a response.

Inner City Press asked about Haq's statement just the previous day, April 20, that while the UN was “expecting that there will be a response from the Government of Sri Lanka... That doesn’t need to tie our hands down regarding when we are going to put out this report. As we have said repeatedly, we’ll put it out this week.”    Full Story>>>

Sri Lanka: War Crimes

A United Nations investigation panel says both the government and Tamil Tigers are to blame.

Sri Lanka: War Crimes

People and Power Last Modified: 20 Apr 2011 12:58

In May 2009, Sri Lanka's decades long civil war with the Tamil Tigers, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam came to a bloody close after government forces launched a massive offensive.

What exactly happened during the last days of the battle is still the subject of fierce debate, but it is clear that as the rebel perimeter shrank, around a third of a million civilians were trapped between the two armies and tens of thousands were killed.

The government says the LTTE were using civilians as human shields, Tamil exiles say the deaths were the result of indiscriminate shelling by the Sri Lankan army. The LTTE was crushed in the offensive, most of its leaders killed and thousands were captured and imprisoned but the Sri Lankan government has so far refused to agree to an independent, international war crimes investigation.  

Now a UN panel has found that the allegations against both sides are credible saying they may have committed serious violations of humanitarian law.

As Juliana Ruhfus and Dom Rotheroe have been finding out, unless and until the truth is established, a final reconciliation in Sri Lanka may prove impossible.

Some of the images in their film are deeply disturbing.

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka warns UN not to release war crimes report

 

Sri Lanka warns UN not to release war crimes report

• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 April 2011 21.08 BST

UN report reveals war crimes on both sides of civil conflict, but Sri Lankans fear it would harm ethnic reconciliation

A Tamil woman with one of her children in May 2009, at the end of the civil war. The UN says both Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels committed war crimes during the 26-year conflict. Photograph: Reuters

Sri Lanka has warned the UN that publicly releasing a report on alleged war crimes committed as its civil war was ending could harm efforts at post-war ethnic reconciliation.

Gamini Peiris, the foreign minister, told reporters that the UN panel had overstepped its mandate and become an investigative rather than an advisory body to the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon.
The report handed to Ban last week criticised the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels on their conduct and said there were credible war crimes allegations against both sides.
The UN has not released the report officially, but media reports have been describing sections of it.

UN 'has no mandate' to issue Sri Lanka war crimes report - video

  Sri Lankan foreign minister Gamini Peiris issues warning Link to this video

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Sri Lanka 'war crimes' is 'Srebrenica moment'  

Sri Lanka 'war crimes' is 'Srebrenica moment'

America and Britain gave advice to LTTE for Rajiv and Premadasa murders – Minister Champika Ranawaka accuses

(Lanka-e-News, 20.April.2011, 11.20PM) JHU national Organizer, and energy and Power Minister Champika Ranawake accused America and Britain as having given advice to the LTTE Organization to murder India’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and SL former President Premadasa .

Ranawake made these grave accusations when addressing a Press meeting at the Public Library services center .
Speaking further , he said , during the final battle waged by our brave Forces at the Nandikadal lagoon , America and Britain did their utmost to rescue Prabhakaran , his 47 front line LTTE leaders and their families. But , as they could not succeed , they are avenging their failure and paying off their grudge through Moon’s report, he pointed out.
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Decomposed body of Vaithiyalingam who returned from abroad and went missing found

(Lanka-e-News, 18.April.2011 10.30PM) Amidst the numerous accusations of serious human rights violations leveled against the Govt. , the decomposed body of Vaithiyalingam Selvaganeshan was discovered in the vicinity of a high security zone in Jaffna yesterday night. The deceased who returned to Jaffna from abroad went missing two days.

Selvaganeshan was 42 years old at the time of his death and his original place of residence is Urumbirai district , Jaffna North. His body was discovered in a decomposed state at about 8.00 yesterday night near a tobacco plantation , Poonani Katuwan , Jaffna. His identity card and travel documents which were with him at the time of his disappearance was found on the ground where his body lay.
So far no suspects have been arrested. The Jaffna police is conducting investigations.