We, Friends of the Earth International, the largest federation of grassroots environmental justice organizations from 76 countries with over two millions of supporters, gathered at our 2012 Biennial GeneralMeeting 2012 in El Salvador express our solidarity with the people in Kundankulam, India, who are fighting against the construction of the Kundankulam nuclear power plant. Similar struggles are also taking place in Malaysia and South Korea and Friends of the Earth International expresses our solidarity also with these struggles.
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A mere four months after Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa abused former Editor in Chief Frederica Jansz in obscene language the newspaper ran an apology to the bad tempered and foul mouthed Secretary who is also brother to President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The Sunday Leader on November 18, published the following:
We publish this apology with reference to the article published on Sunday 8th July 2012 under the caption ‘Gota Goes Berserk’.
This article suggests that SriLankan Airlines had made arrangements to switch aircraft to carry a puppy dog from Zurich to Colombo at the behest of Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa Secretary of Defense. We unconditionally accept that such an inference will not survive scrutiny of the facts as presented before the Sri Lanka Press Council. It has now been established that no such animal was carried by SriLankan Airlines from any point in its network to Colombo consigned to either Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa or to any member of his family. Hence the contents of the article were essentially both conjecture and hypothetical and not based on fact. We unreservedly accept the assertion by Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, at that point in time when he responded to our story that neither the Department of Civil Aviation nor SriLankan Airlines was within the purview of the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development. We also unreservedly accept that he as Secretary of the Ministry cannot be held responsible for any actions taken or alleged to have been taken by Sri Lankan Airlines as impugned in the article under reference. We apologize to Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa Secretary Ministry of Defense and Urban Development and to our readers for any misapprehensions caused in their minds as a result of that publication. We publish this apology to remove any lingering doubts in their minds as to any distortions, untruths and improprieties that the said article may have caused.”
The apology was carried after the newspaper was taken over by a government stooge in September this year.
Appalled with the trend The Sunday Leader has taken a close family member of the Wickrematunge family confided to Colombo Telegraph that Lasantha Wickrematunge “must be turning in his grave.”
Requesting anonymity the family member pointed out that it is Gotabaya Rajapaksa who was suing The Sunday Leader and Lasantha for 2 billion rupees. The cases were filed three months before Lasantha was murdered. Inside sources told Colombo Telegraph that Lasantha had been preparing to counter sue the Defense Secretary but was assassinated before he could do so.
In July this year, Frederica Jansz authored an article which was published in The Sunday Leader on Sunday the 8th. She reported that Defense Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa went berserk when contacted by The Sunday Leader to clarify and find out if he was aware that the management at SriLankan Airlines had taken a decision to change a wide bodied A340 scheduled to fly to Zurich on Friday July 13, to a smaller A330. The change was to be made so that a SriLankan airline pilot who is dating a niece of President Mahinda Rajapaksa could personally fly the aircraft that would carry a ‘puppy dog’ for Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa from Zurich.
‘The Sunday Leader’ had been told by senior airline pilots that 56 passengers would have had to be off loaded if the aircraft was changed.
The pilot concerned was Capt. Praveen Wijesinghe who, according to the article was dating Flight OfficerMadini Chandradasa, the niece of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
When asked, Gothabaya Rajapaksa while denying that he had any knowledge that CEO Kapila Chandrasena had ordered the change of aircraft from an A340 to an A330 as Capt. Wijeysinghe was not qualified to fly the bigger aircraft, admitted that Capt. Wijeysinghe would indeed be “passengering” on one sector so he could bring down the dog for his wife.
“Yes they are bringing a puppy – it is for my wife. There is nothing wrong with that. I have every right to bring not just a dog but an elephant on SriLankan if I so wish – I am paying for the cargo. I have every right to bring anything I want. This is not the first time – before this also they brought a dog for me…what is wrong – I am paying for the cargo I have every right.”
When pointed out that bringing the dog was not the issue – but a loss of revenue for the airline as an entire aircraft was to be replaced with a smaller bodied plane – resulting in the loss of 56 passengers, Rajapaksa turned abusive.
Using foul language he screamed at Jansz, “If you write one bloody word I will sue the writer and your newspaper – which I have already done - I am not afraid of the bloody courts – I will sue you and shut down your fucking newspaper.”
Rajapaksa never denied the contents of this article nor having had used foul language on Frederica. He went so far as to even tell her that ninety percent of the people in Sri Lanka would want to see her dead. “They hate you” he shrieked in a conversation with her that has since received worldwide condemnation.
The apology published in The Sunday Leader of November 18, carried a denial going so far as to even deny the fact that Rajapaksa was indeed attempting to fly down a puppy dog from Zurich. Following the publication of the story in The Sunday Leader of July 8th, SriLankan Airlines too never denied that a plane switch had indeed been planned in order to accommodate a pilot friend of Rajapaksa and that 56 passengers would have had to be off loaded as a result.
November 12, 2012 (AP).......................................................................................................................TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Sri Lanka’s main opposition party described the deaths of 27 inmates after a prison riot as a “cold-blooded massacre” and demanded a parliamentary investigation. Authorities have said the prisoners died in a shootout.
Mangala Samaraweera, a lawmaker for United National party, said that he had information that most of the prisoners killed during Friday’s clash had been gunned down by police commandos and soldiers. “It’s a massacre that has to be condemned. It shows the breakdown of the rule of law in the country,” Samaraweera said Sunday. “Information I have is that most of the prisoners were cold-bloodedly gunned down.”
He said the party has called for a parliamentary committee to be appointed to investigate.
Officials have said the clash erupted when prisoners attacked a search team that went into the Welikada Prison facility in Colombo looking for narcotics and communication devices. The prisoners armed themselves by breaking into the armory, they said.
On Friday night(9 November 2012), the prisoners were seen holding up assault rifles from the rooftop and throwing rocks at officials.
Forty-two others, including police commandos and soldiers, were wounded.
Opposition lawmaker Samaraweera said it was illegal for the military to have been deployed in the prison.
The opposition also says that prison clashes are frequent in Sri Lanka and their causes must be examined.
At least two suspects died following another prison revolt in June, and human rights campaigners alleged they died after being beaten by guards. They were suspected to have been linked to the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels who waged a quarter-century separatist war that ended in 2009.
The government promised an inquiry in that incident, but there has been no result.
Other, less-deadly clashes also took place at Welikada earlier this year and also in 2010.- ABC News
The photos of prisoners, like thugs, holding a few machine guns on the roof of Welikada Prison, challenging a government which is capable of terrorizing an entire country, what do they tell us? The news of the mass murder which was a response to that challenge, what does that tell us?
The photos and the news are two sides of the same coin. And the coin reflects the reality of Sri Lanka. It shows that intimidation, violence and murder have replaced humanity.
Sri Lanka’s prisons are lawless. And today, there is no rule of law in the whole country. The recent dreadful massacre by the Government’s security forces is a crime symbolic of the violence resulted from the fusion of the lawlessness of prisons and the lack of law and order in the country.
There are reports revealing that several of these prisoners were killed while they were still in handcuffs and that the search mission soon turned in to a killing mission, although the mainstream media, being controlled by political and financial pressures, may not report so. The shadow of the delayed strategy of killing and abduction in suppressing the underworld hang over the Welikada killings as well.
When we were jailed for the 1971 uprising, there was this saying that the Commissioner General of Prisons used to say whenever one of us were brutally beaten: “I only have to put up another notice saying that there’s another corpse. You dying, what does it matter to me?”
The prison officials who beat the prisoners or detainees showed no softness. The worst case was that the prison doctors who attend to the beaten prisons kept no record or placed no complaints about the injuries sustained. Sri Lankan prisons are in fact overcrowded and breed crime. High profile thugs become the unofficial administrators of prisons once they’re jailed.
The usual rule in prisons is to ignore all human rights although the outer prison is decorated with the slogan ‘ Prisoners too are human beings’ . This rule bends in cases of the politically powerful, the rich and the thugs.
There’s no doubt that the most of these of machine gunmen welding prisoners are the ones who organised kiribath dansal on the roads and rejoiced over the war victory wavering lion flags in May 2009. If not they were representatives of that stream. During the celebrations with kiribath and victory-drinks, there was no apparent compassion for thousands of innocent Tamil civilians who died in the battlefield a week ago.
That’s not all. In July 1983, it was similar groups of thugs, incited by the state that killed 52 unarmed Tamil inmates in the same Welikada Prison. There was no inquiry in to that mass murder and no one was punished.
A few months ago, the same Special Task Force which was called for this massacre, was called to suppress a protest carried out by the inmates of Vavuniya Prison. As a result of assaults during and after that incident, two Tamil prisoners died. And there was neither an inquiry, nor punishment.
Now, the Kiribath heroes themselves have been assaulted and killed. The same voice that asked; ‘they are Tigers; what’s wrong with killing them?’, today asks, ‘they’re underworld kingpins, what’s wrong with killing them?’. And the same group who campaigned for the right to life of Tamil people is left to talk about the slaughtered prisoners.
In a society that does not voice the need to protect the other’s life, it is possible that the Welikada massacre is already forgotten.
‘They are dead, now what is there to do?’, they’ll ask. And what we should say is that ‘it is true that they’re dead, but the murderer is still sniffing for prey’. Who knows who the next prey is? Could it not be a University lecturer? A student involved in a demonstration? A picketing nurse? A protesting labourer? Murder is not only physical death. Killing with intimidation and threat, without actually killing, is also murder.
One of the significant demerits of the post war Sri Lanka is the culture of impunity, where crimes approved by state are not punished for. There is no need to say that there will be no independent inquiry in to Welikada killings and no perpetrator will be penalized; we all know it.
There’s no ground to justify killing 27 prisoners and detainees simply because they held weapons. Even if they were armed, they were inside the prison. Any operation intended to save lives should have first used other means of controlling inmates than just unleashing a rain of bullets like the legendary bull in the pottery shop.
However that is not the practice in present Sri Lanka where the military victory over the LTTE is praised heroic and exemplary in spite of the deaths tens of thousands of Tamil civilians. The practice is this: First the killing, then the justification. Both symbol and policy of the post-war Sri Lankan Government is to entirely eliminate whatever the opposition or dissent by whichever the party, by killing. The Sinhala society that has revered and heroized the war in Mullivaikkal where thousands of Tamil civilians died, cannot expect a different reaction from the state. The same war strategies that neglected the deaths of Tamil civilians were put in place in shooting at and beating hundreds of Free Trade Zone workers in Katunayaka and killing Roshan Chanaka. Same goes true for the shooting at the protest of the fishermen and killing Antony Fernando in Chilaw. The sickening verbal attack directed at the University lecturers who launched a strike based on reasonable demands, by labelling them traitors through State Media can also be an expression of the same war strategy.
The impeachment motion brought against the Chief Justice, they themselves appointed also shows the war strategy of intolerance of dissent or independence.
After the war, Sri Lanka continues to follow the ways of Chand-Asoka. There’s no need to exaggerate. Imperial Chanda followed no law. Because Chanda, himself was the law. Not only the King, royal family and royal relatives, but also those who lick the royal boots can violate anything. They can suppress anyone. Sri Lanka today is writing its future by going back to the past.
There may be no other country that can reiterate verse by Pastor Martin Niemöller while he was in a Nazi death camp: ‘Then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak for me’.
We need to stop thinking that prisons deaths do not matter to us, as they were criminals. Because criminals or not, they are still human: Because the voice that is not raised for the right to life of the other may remain the silent witness of our own death.
*Borella is where Welikada prison located and Pudumathanlan is where thousands of Tamils civilians died in the war.
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 06:25 GMT] Genocidal Sri Lanka’s ambassador in France, Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke, on Sunday reiterated his stand of finding ‘autonomy’ solutions for Tamils within a ‘unitary’ state. The model he cited was China. He was replying to criticism on his stand by Emeritus Professor Peter Schalk that appeared in TamilNet last Thursday. “The reply of the ambassador only confirms what we all have a foreboding of, namely that the ambassador of Sri Lanka has a totalitarian system like the Chinese as a model for the unitary state of Lanka. What about the "autonomy" of Tibet in practice? There is no autonomy,” commented Peter Schalk in a note sent to TamilNet on Monday.
“I am aware that Constitutions create fictions about regional autonomy within unitary states, but Tibet is a good example of the tension between theory and practice, much like it is the case in Lanka,” Schalk said, responding to Dayan’s reply that appeared in Lankaweb on Sunday.
Earlier in November, the SL ambassador was entertained by France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), to come out with the ‘autonomy’ model while preserving the unitary character of the Sri Lankan state.
Arguing that autonomy and unitary are fundamentally paradoxical, Schalk had said on Thursday that a social scientist would not have uttered such a thing.
The structural genocide practised by the unitary state in the island for decades is not an occasional aberration or some nuts, he had said.
“The ambassador has come to a stage where he has to chose to continue his career as a demagogue or as a scholar,” Schalk responded on Monday to Dayan’s reiterated advocacy for autonomy within a unitary structure.
Meanwhile, commenting on the SL ambassador’s advocacy, an Eezham Tamil political activist in the island said that if any majoritarian and unitary state with a chronic history of genocide wants to complete that genocide and total annihilation of the nation of its target, then ‘autonomy within unitary structure’ provides the most ostensible theoretical smokescreen to conduct it in a controlled atmosphere.
The modal coming from a state of genocidal conviction would first reduce the nation of its target into ‘ethnic minority’ living in pockets under subjugated conditions, before the total annihilation, the political activist said.
The SL diplomat was turning the table on the TNA for visiting China to study ‘autonomy’ under unitary state.
“The Chinese constitution which defines the state as unitary, also enshrines the concept of ethnic regional autonomy–so perhaps Prof Schalk should direct his absurd, politically fundamentalist objections to the leadership of the TNA and the Chinese Communist party, rather than to me,” Dayan wrote.
But the ‘autonomy within unitary’ hoodwink was long kept up in the sleeves of the West and India that never wanted to offend the genocidal Sinhala-Buddhist state in the island, said the Tamil political activist in the island.
He cited New Delhi’s silence on the separation of North and East and the current idea of abolishment of the 13th Amendment as well as Washington’s promotion of the LLRC recommendations of non-descript solutions paving way for further strengthening of the unitary genocidal state in the island.
Especially Washington, London and New Delhi that harbour thoroughly illogical approaches to the question in the island and contribute to furtherance of misery, choose to call the time-tested aspirations of Eezham Tamils as impractical, the activist further commented.
For a man who regularly receives disturbing reports from war zones, last week was a particularly bad one for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. As fighting escalated in Gaza and rebel forces launched new offensives in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo -- where U.N. peacekeepers are on the front line -- Ban also had to manage the fallout from an internal report (.pdf) on the U.N.’s performance during the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. The report tells an appalling story.
U.N. officials in Sri Lanka, the report shows, avoided confronting the government over the fierce assault launched by the Sri Lankan army against Tamil rebels. The offensive killed at least 40,000 civilians and potentially as many as 70,000, according to “credible” sources cited in the report. U.N. higher-ups in New York did no better. “The absence of any form of central coordination and common sense of purpose or responsibility,” one passage states, “made it impossible for the U.N. to formulate a comprehensive vision or plan of action.” ...
The Vanni is supported by: Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize Winner, God of Small Things), Jon Snow (Newscaster, Channel 4), Frances Harrison (BBC and Author, Still Counting the Dead), Callum Macrae (Film Maker, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields), Vairamuttu Varadakumar (Executive Secretary, Tamil Information Centre), Liv Torres (Secretary General, Norwegian People's Aid), Roma Tearne (Author, The Road to Urbino) Beate Arnestad(Filmmaker, My Daughter the Terrorist) and is being produced with the involvement of a number of survivors of the conflict.
In 2009, the civil war fought between the Sri Lankan Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam reached a brutal climax.
In the North East of the island, on a spit of sandy beach, over 300,000 Tamil civilians were caught between the opposing sides.
Aerial view of the battle zone, days after cessation of the fighting. Puttamattalan Beach, Vanni.
In one of the most brutal counter-insurgency operations ever mounted, at least 40,000 civilians were killed. The exact number of dead may never be known.
My name is Benjamin Dix and I arrived in Vanni, in northern Sri Lanka, three days after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Employed by Norwegian People's Aid and then the United Nations, I worked on reconstruction projects with international staff and Tamil nationals for the next four years.
Self Portrait. UN Evacuation from Vanni. 16th September 2008
After the election of the nationalist Sinhalese president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, the peace process broke down. The fighting escalated from bloody skirmishes and bomb attacks to all-out war.
In 2008, the government ordered the UN to leave the Vanni, stating they could no longer guarantee our safety. Without impartial international witness, the war escalated rapidly.
UN Evacuation from Vanni. 16th September 2008
Three hundred thousand people were forced to flee their homes. They were herded towards government-declared 'No Fire Zones'. But in densely packed, supposedly safe areas, they were continually shelled for the next six months.
300,000 thousand people flee the fighting towards No Fire Zones.
Before the fighting even finished, there were many competing narratives about what exactly happened and who bore responsibility. A fog of accusations and contradictions stifled a broad, public understanding of what occurred in 2009.
Conveniently for certain parties, there seemed to be no concrete facts. The people with most to reveal about the war were the civilians who were forced through it. But their stories have largely been lost. Thousands of Tamils have fled Sri Lanka, seeking asylum in safer parts of the world, often forced to leave families behind. Inside Sri Lanka and out, many Tamils do not feel safe to reveal their experiences, fearing reprisals against themselves or their loved ones.
I am now working on a project that I hope will illuminate for a wide audience the experiences of ordinary Sri Lankan Tamils.
Working with illustrator Lindsay Pollock, I am writing an online graphic novel which tells the story of a fictional but representative Tamil family between 2005 and 2012.
The Vanni tells the story of Antoni & Rajini, their children Michael and Theepa, Rajini's younger sister Priya and Antoni's mother Apamma - and their dog Rocky.
The story is constructed from survivor testimonies. Every significant event in the novel, from bomb attacks to internment to the isolation of asylum seeking, is an event that occurred to Tamil civilians in reality during the war and after.
Family portrait. (Clockwise from left) Priya, Antoni, Rajini, Theepa, Michael, Appama and Rocky)
Illustration showing the atrocities in the battle zone
From a refugee camp in 2005, when the family hope to rebuild their lives after the tsunami... to the despair of 2007 when they had to flee the fighting and leave the coast… to the atrocities endured on the tiny spit of beach where the fighting reached its climax.
The graphic novel will depict the horrors inflicted on ordinarily families, as reported anonymously by survivors themselves. We'll be working from first-hand accounts and in consultation with survivors of the fighting.
The story is told from Antoni's perspective in 2012, now an asylum seeker in London reflecting on the preceding six years of his life. The reflections are in the form of conversations with his asylum lawyer, Nina… via Skype with Rajini in Chennai, where she lives in the purgatory faced by a refugee… and in his troubled dream states where his post-traumatic stress plays out night after night.
Illustration showing Antoni alone in London
Besides telling a compelling story, the book will provide resources for the reader to find out more about the war in Sri Lanka, and related topics of conflict, terrorism, forced migration and asylum.
Presented on the internet, the novel is augmented with photographs and video from the ground. There will also be maps, statistics, links and quotes embedded behind the illustrations. This reference material, sourced from organisations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, and various NGOs will open channels for the reader to explore a variety of issues as deeply as they wish. Additionally, statements from the Government of Sri Lanka and Tamil media will be included, allowing the reader to independently weigh the conflicting voices against one another.
The book is being written with great consideration to impartiality. This narrative is constructed from the lived-experiences of ordinary people; not the rhetoric of political leaders.
We have been working on "The Vanni" for a year, entirely self-funded. In that time, we have traveled to South Asia to gather visual reference material, photographing flora and fauna, landscapes, typical Tamil villages, fishing communities and buildings. We have spoken with Tamil survivors, asylum lawyers, and experts at a variety of organisations.
Lindsay and I beginning to storyboard in India, 2012
We have employed computer programmers to develop the website, filling it with useful resources, multimedia and a primer on the conflict in Sri Lanka. And we have written & drawn a 20 page preview of the book.
Chapter by chapter, we intend to make the entire book available for free, so this story can reach as many people as possible.
Work so far has cost in the region of £10,000. The entire project will unfold over approximately two years. But we can no longer afford to fund the comic ourselves. That's why we're asking for your help.
Every penny donated will help us produce the book to the highest possible standard. If you care to donate a little more, we'll show our gratitude with exclusive gifts for higher contributors.
Despite the terrible bloodshed which unfolded across its fields and beaches, the Vanni is a stunningly beautiful part of the world. Many of the photos featured in this film are my own, taken during my time in Sri Lanka. Higher contributors will receive limited-edition prints. We're also providing original artwork and even the chance to be featured in the background of one of the London scenes - and then receive the original page to keep. For details of the funding brackets, please see the information below.
In every crowded capital of the world, thousands of asylum seekers are totally anonymous. This book will introduce the reader to one such man - Antoni - showing the path which led him to his strange new life, alone on the fringe of an unfamiliar society. A good husband, father and son, who shoulders the guilt of the survivor, and the memories of the lost; a man who misses his family terribly, and waits for the slow cogs of obscure law to turn; a man whose last hope is to be allowed to start a new life, in a strange place, when all he wants is to be home, on his beach, fishing.
“A collective effort is needed to rouse the nations’ interest to ensure that assaults, threats, kidnapping, killings of journalists and media workers would not re-occur in the future and the government must restore complete press freedom”, said Jacob Mathew, Global President of WAN-IFRA (World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers).
Speaking on “The Media Today-Challenges and Opportunities” at the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) Press Club held on Tuesday (20) at Hotel Taj Samudra, Mr. Mathew said that Government and Parliament must heed to the voice of the world and remove all restrictions they has imposed on media through legislations.
“Certain telecom companies in the country have blocked certain websites that the authorities dislike and it is certainly a form of censorship. Media should be the heart of a country’s sustainable development and given top priority,” he added.
Mr. Mathew said in recent times print media has become under immense pressure as readers increasingly use mobile phones and tablets to read.
“In order to survive in the digital world, we must use new tools such as smart phones and tablets to generate revenue,”he added.
Jacob Mathew is Executive Editor and Publisher of the Malayala Manorama Group of Publications in Kerala, India, a group with 50 publications and a daily with a circulation of more than 1.9 million copies per day.
Mr.Mathew was elected April 2011 by the WAN-IFRA General Assembly of Members, held during the WAN-IFRA Board meeting in Dublin, Ireland. He is the first Indian to hold the presidency of WAN-IFRA.
The Member of the Southern Provincial Council (UPFA) Ajith Prasanna has proposed to legalize prostitution to boost tourism in the country.
He made this proposal to the Ministry of Economic Development through the Southern Provincial Council.
He had said steps should be taken to bring down women from other countries if adequate people were not available in Sri Lanka. He pointed out that more than 40,000 women were now engaged in the prostitution trade in Sri Lanka.
The Provincial Council member was of the view that his proposal was in keeping with the concept of Sea and Sunshine in S3 system for tourism.
He said that he felt the need to promote prostitution as a means to boost tourism during his recent visit abroad including Korea and Thailand. (D.G.Sugathapala)
Wednesday, 21 November 2012 
We, Friends of the Earth International, the largest federation of grassroots environmental justice organizations from 76 countries with over two millions of supporters, gathered at our 2012 Biennial GeneralMeeting 2012 in El Salvador express our solidarity with the people in Kundankulam, India, who are fighting against the construction of the Kundankulam nuclear power plant. Similar struggles are also taking place in Malaysia and South Korea and Friends of the Earth International expresses our solidarity also with these struggles.
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