ACMC concerned about BBS ‘atrocities’ ; Powerful hands behind Gnanasara- Hakeem

ACMC concerned about BBS ‘atrocities’ ; Powerful hands behind Gnanasara- Hakeem

BBS thugs

Monday, April 14, 2014 

Meanwhile, issuing a media statement on Friday, the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) claimed the apparent impunity with which the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) was acting raises questions whether the BBS was running ‘a parallel government’ like the LTTE during its existence.

“At least the so called government of the LTTE was challenged by the law enforcement authorities but the government of the BBS appears to be above the law,” the statement said. The ACMC further called for a ‘Commission of Inquiry’ to look into post-war incidents against minorities in general and Muslims in particular.

The statement, issued by ACMC Leader and Minister of Industry and Commerce, Rishad Bathidueen, condemned the disruption of the Jathika Bala Sena (JBS) press conference at Nippon Hotel on Wednesday, and questioned as to how the BBS was able to behave in such an ‘unruly manner’ in the presence of police officers.

“The impunity with which they (BBS) were able to get out of the hotel not only after forcing the organisers to call off the press conference even before it started but also getting them to tender an apology under duress in the presence of members of the long arm of the law calls into question the uniform applicability of the law to all citizens of the country,” the statement read.

The ACMC alleged that the failure on the part of law enforcement authorities to act against the organization during the past two years had emboldened its members to intensify their acts ‘even in front of media cameras’.

ACMC Leader and Minister Bathidueen had been accused by the BBS of settling Muslims illegally within Wipattu National Park. The JBS meanwhile claimed that BBS was spreading falsehoods regarding the situation. 

The Nation 

A recent media briefing held by Jathika Balasena fell through amid the intervention of a group of Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) members lead by General Secretary of the organization Ven.Gnanasara Thera and from the way the police behaved towards the situation it was evident that certain powerful hands are behind the particular action, says Minister Rauff Hakeem of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC).

He has further stated that considering the similar incidents occurred recently attention should be paid towards certain Buddhist monks violating ethics of Bhikku by taking measures against minority religious groups.

The countries attention has been directed towards the law enforcing authorities’ behavior towards such groups and it is surprising that the OIC and other police officers attached to Slave Island Police Station remained silent taking the particular incident to be normal, he added

SLM

We Fell Into The American Trap – Professor Rajiva Wijesinghe

By Camelia Nathaniel-Monday, April 14, 2014

Reputed for his outspoken nature Professor Rajiva Wijesinghe feels that the government has been too hasty in proscribing the Diaspora groups, and the Foreign Ministry has done nothing about the LLRC recommendation to build up positive relations with the Diaspora. Instead, Professor Wijesinghe said, in an interview with The Sunday Leader, “as happened with Dayan Jayatilleka, they engaged in adverse propaganda about those who talked to the moderate Tamils.

We Fell Into The American Trap – Professor Rajiva Wijesinghe by nelvely

Why Corrupt Persons And Criminals Win Elections In India ?

| by N.S.Venkataraman

( April 14, 2014, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) In the past elections, several criminals and corrupt persons have comfortably won the elections and got a say in the country’s governance. One can be sure that the forthcoming parliamentary poll will be no different. Almost every political party have given seats to some corrupt and criminal persons and much shouting aam aadmi party is no exception. Should we blame the political parties who nominate such criminal candidates or the people who vote for them and enable them to win.

The problem in India’s electoral democracy is that large section of the people attach less importance to the particular candidate contesting but give importance only to the political party that the candidate belongs to .

The quality of electoral democracy in India can improve only if the people would look for the right and credible candidate to give their vote, whatever party they may belong to. This approach is particularly appropriate in today’s scenario when people have nothing much to choose between the political parties or the leadership of the parties.

However, in the past , several independent candidates with good track record and principled approach have contested in the elections but have lost badly, losing their deposits. The voters have certainly ignored such candidates and even the media rarely recognise them. Such independent candidates have been conspicuous in the election fray due to their lack of money power and muscle power.

In the present situation, unless a candidate would get himself nominated by one political party or the other, there is little chance of the person getting elected. It is not clear as to why the voters have developed distaste for independent candidates . Perhaps, the voters think that an independent candidate in the parliament can do little , as every decision in the parliament is taken on the basis of voting and the party enjoying majority can alone rule.

Under the circumstances, the quality of Indian electoral democracy can improve only if the political parties would insist on minimum standards in terms of integrity, public service and education on the part of the candidate for nomination. In this 2014 parliamentary election also , no party has adopted such an approach in the choice of the candidate but only has been guided by loyalty to the political leadership. This has become the real issue in improving the quality of the members of parliament and performance standards of the parliamentary proceedings.

In this dismal scenario, the only option is to lay more stringent guidelines and rules for nomination of candidates by the political parties. While some steps have been taken largely due to the verdict of the Supreme Court on prevention of those convicted of criminal charges from contesting in the elections.

Unfortunately, the election Commission, which is a constitutional body and with huge responsibility in cleansing the process of electoral democracy has become very ineffective and is really functioning as a mere administrative body. Today, election Commission is almost functioning like yet another government department, routinely making noises about conducting elections in a fair manner and issuing some notices to the misbehaving political parties and candidates and ending up as mere paper tiger.

Unless the judiciary and election commission would act with the devoted objective of ensuring candidates from contesting elections who are not involved in corrupt and criminal practices, there can be no solution for the problem. One cannot expect the politicians to act decisively in cleansing the conditions for obvious reasons.

Today, voters are often left as faceless creatures routinely exercising their franchise based on electoral campaigns and advertisement blitz of political parties and they are left with little choice in electing honest and good candidate.

Nigerian senator: '135 civilians killed' in attacks

Boko Haram has been accused of numerous attacks in the north including one last month in Bama, Borno State

12 April 2014 

Gunmen have killed 135 civilians in north east Nigeria since Wednesday, a senior official from the region has told the BBC.

Borno state senator Ahmed Zannah said the killings took place in at least three separate attacks in the state.

The attackers are suspected to be from the Islamist Boko Haram movement.

At least 1,500 people, half of them civilian, have been killed in the restive north-eastern region this year, according to Amnesty International.

The organisation blamed both "an increase in attacks by Boko Haram and uncontrolled reprisals by Nigeria's security forces" for the high death toll.

Women 'abducted'

Senator Zannah said the attackers first target was a teacher training college in the town of Dikwa.

They killed five people there and abducted several women, he said.

The attackers burned down the college library before escaping, Mr Zannah said.

The militants then attacked two villages near the border with Cameroon killing a further 130 people, the senator said.

The attacks took place on Wednesday and Thursday, with initial reports claiming around 70 people had been killed.

The Nigerian military has not yet commented on the attacks.

A state of emergency has been in place since last year in the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa in north-east Nigeria.

Human rights groups have criticised both Boko Haram and Nigeria's military for failing to protect civilians.

Amnesty International said last month that Nigeria's army killed around 600 people after a Boko Haram attack.

Some 250,000 people have been forced to leave their homes because of the fighting, the Nigerian government's relief agency said.

Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009 to create a strict Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

Russia spends more of its wealth on arms than US in 2013

The rise in defence spending highlights Moscow’s resurgent military ambition as it confronts the west over Ukraine. Photograph: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images

Richard Norton-Taylor Russia

Monday 14 April 2014

 spent a higher proportion of its wealth on arms than the US last year for the first time in more than a decade, according to figures published on Monday by a leading international research body that highlights Moscow's resurgent military ambition as it confronts the west over Ukraine.

Western countries, including Britain and the US, reduced defence budgets, but Russia increased arms spending by 4.8% in real terms last year to almost $88bn (£52m), devoting a bigger share of its GDP to the military than the US for the first time since 2003, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).

China and Saudi Arabia were also among a list of countries that increased arms spending, but overall world military expenditure fell by 1.9% to $1.75tn in 2013. Britain is estimated to have dropped to its lowest place in the military spending league since the second world war.

Under Russia's state armaments plan, Moscow plans to spend $705bn to replace 70% of the country's military equipment by 2020. Although Russia's 850,000-strong armed forces are by far the biggest in the region, dwarfing that of Ukraine, for example, much of its hardware is in need of modernising.

And despite devoting ever more resources to defence, Russia still trails far behind the US in absolute terms. America spent $640bn in 2013 (down by 7.8%) – more than three times than China, with $188bn. China increased its defence expenditure by 7.4%, Saudi Arabia by as much as 14% (to $67bn). Spending on arms by Iraq and Bahrain increased by more than 25% during the same period. Military spending in the Middle East as a whole increased by 4% last year, reaching an estimated $150bn. The Saudi increase is partly owing to tensions with Iran, but also the desire to maintain strong and loyal security forces to insure against potential Arab spring-type protests, says Sipri.

It adds: "Maintaining regime survival in the face of internal opposition is also the likely motive for Bahrain's 26% increase."

Afghanistan accounted for the biggest increase in arms spending – 77%. "Not only did Afghanistan have the world's highest increase in military expenditure in 2013, at 77%, spending had risen by 557% over the decade since 2004," says Sipri.

It adds: "This huge increase is the result of Afghanistan's efforts to build its defence and security forces from scratch, heavily supported by foreign aid. The particularly large increase in 2013 is the result of an increase in salaries and wages for the Afghan national army, which reached its target goal of 195 000 soldiers in 2012, and as a result of preparations for the departure of most foreign forces at the end of 2014."

Military spending in Africa increased by more than 8% in 2013, reaching an estimated $44.9bn. Algeria became the first country on the continent with a military budget of more than $10bn. Angola increased its spending by 36%, overtaking South Africa as the largest military spender in sub-Saharan Africa. High oil revenues appear to be a factor driving greater spending in Algeria and Angola, the survey says.

"The increase in military spending in emerging and developing countries continues unabated", said Dr Sam Perlo-Freeman, director of Sipri's military expenditure programme. "While in some cases it is the natural result of economic growth or a response to genuine security needs, in other cases it represents a squandering of natural resource revenues, the dominance of autocratic regimes, or emerging regional arms races."

'Russia is waging war against Ukraine'

SUNDAY 13 APRIL 2014
Ukraine's acting president says Russia is waging war against his country by sowing disorder in the east, and launches a "full-scale anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Russian separatists.

After a weekend of violence in which two people are reported to have died, Ukraine's acting president Oleksander Turchynov accused Russia of waging war against Ukraine in a televised address to the nation.

The president also said the Ukrainian authorities will launch a "full-scale anti-terrorist operation" involving the army against pro-Russian separatists who have seized public buildings in a number of cities and towns in the east of Ukraine. However, he offered not to prosecute any militants who gave up their weapons by Monday morning.

Mr Turchynov said: "The blood of Ukrainian heroes has been shed in a war which the Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine.

"The aggressor has not stopped and is continuing to sow disorder in the east of the country," he said.

The blood of Ukrainian heroes has been shed in a war which the Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine.Oleksander Turchynov

Kiev authorities say the separatists' rebellions have been inspired and directed by the Kremlin, a charge Moscow denies.

"The National Security and Defence Council has decided to launch a full-scale anti-terrorist operation involving the armed forces of Ukraine," Acting President Turchynov declared. "We will not allow Russia to repeat the Crimean scenario in the eastern regions of the country."

Russia's foreign ministry has said the west must "bring its Ukranian allies under control," adding that if civil war in Ukraine is to be avoided, "it depends on the west's actions."

Russia denies that it is behind the attacks in east Ukraine by gunmen who have declared their loyalty to Russia; but the Ukrainian government, Nato and the United States are not convinced, particularly as the situation appears to be echoing what happened in Crimea - which ended up being annexed by Russia - just a few weeks ago.

The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, warned that the US was prepared to step up sanctions against Russia if the situation continued, saying the latest events bore "the telltale signs of Moscow's involvement".

[Recent events] have the telltale signs of Moscow's involvement.US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power

Nato described the appearance in eastern Ukraine of men with specialized Russian weapons and identical uniforms without insignia - as previously worn by Moscow's troops when they seized Crimea- as a "grave development."

In Slaviansk, one Ukrainian security officer was killed in clashes with pro-Russian gunmen who seized the police headquarters on Saturday, with five more reported injured. Russian news agency RIA also said that one separatist had died.

Speaking to Channel 4 News on Sunday, Svyatoslav Urush, an advisor to the Ukrainian ministry of defence, said that Russia had taken things to the next level.

"Putin is taking over our lands," he said. Watch the full interview below.

Nigerian bus station hit by deadly explosion

Many are feared dead after blast in outskirts of capital, Abuja, as hundreds of commuters travelled to work

Abuja, the Nigerian capital. Photograph: Alamy

Associated Press in Abuja

Monday 14 April 2014

An explosion blasted through a busy commuter bus station in the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, on Monday, as hundreds of people were on their way to work.

Police have said at least 71 people were killed and 124 wounded in the blast. Reporters saw rescue workers and police gathering body parts.

The blast ripped a hole 1.2 metres (4ft) deep in the ground of Nyanya motor park, about 10 miles from the city centre, and destroyed more than 30 vehicles, causing secondary explosions as their fuel tanks ignited and burned.

There was no official comment or immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion, though bus stations are a favoured target of Nigeria's Islamist militants.

Extremists have been threatening to attack the capital, which is in the middle of the country and hundreds of miles from their traditional base in the north-east, where they have killed nearly 1,500 people this year.

The Boko Haram terrorist network last attacked the capital in 2011, when it claimed a suicide bombing by two explosive-laden cars that drove into the lobby of the United Nations building in Abuja. The attack killed at least 21 people and wounded 60.

The militants are blamed for attacks in north-east Nigeria that have killed more than 50 people in the past five days, including eight teachers living at a boarding school that had been closed because of frequent attacks on schools in which hundreds of students have died.

Boko Haram, which means "western education is forbidden", has been attacking schools, villages, market places and military barracks and checkpoints this year in increasingly frequent and deadly attacks. Its mission is to create an Islamic state in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation of some 170 million people divided almost equally between Muslims living mainly in the north and Christians in the south.

The military has claimed it has the extremists on the run with near-daily air bombardments and ground assaults on hideouts in forests and mountain caves along the border with Cameroon.

Obama Is Making Money On Privatized Prisons And Slave Labor

April 7, 2014   Business, Civil Rights, Corporate Takeover, Government Corruption,Obama Exposed, US News

Inmates from a La Fourche parish jail on a work release program fill giant sandbags in Port Fourchon, Louisiana May 11, 2010. U.S. Army National Guard troops were dropping the sandbags using helicopters on nearby breaks in beaches to protect marshes from the BP oil spill offshore. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Since the advent of privatized prisons in 1984, America has witnessed the passage of laws that require zero tolerance and mandatory sentencing, without regard for any extenuating circumstances. These two factors walk hand in hand as the increasingly privatized American justice system is designed to produce as many prisoners as possible. Our prison system is experiencing a much larger percentage of work by prisoners, thus creating profits for Wall Street which in turn motivate the incarceration of more people for longer periods of time. Privatized prison corporate investors make happy campaign contributors. Therefore, you can bet that the proverbial poop rolls down hill to the cops and the push is on to incarcerate more and more. Some argue that is fine and we should lock all the bad guys up. However, when one of the fastest growing segments of our prison population are children, we all need to sit up take notice and take action, especially when the President of the United States is profiting from the corruption.

Obama is Making Money on Privatized Prisons and Slave Labor by nelvely

IPCC's doom-and-gloom global warming apocalypse is political theater, not real science

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor-Monday, March 31, 2014 

(NaturalNews) The IPCC has just released its latest "Apocalypse Now" report(1), threatening all humankind with imminent self-destruction if industrial output of CO2 is not immediately and drastically curbed. The UN global government report concludes that global warming is "severe, pervasive and irreversible," a position which seems to be little more than a foregone death sentence for the human race, even if drastic changes are made right now.

IPCC's Doom-And-gloom Global Warming Apocalypse is Political Theater, Not Real Science by nelvely

Regime’s profusion of lies about new ‘LTTE’ exposed : murdered ‘LTTE ers’ were in Kokavil army camp - State media contradicts Army

(Lanka-e-News-13.April.2014, 5.00 PM) According to high rung army officer , the government proclaimed new LTTE leader was a youth helping in the cooking of food for some time at the Kilinochchi Kokavil camp, while the other two LTTE ers were assisting as laborers in the camp. By now it has come to light supported by evidence that the deaths of Gopi (the supposed new LTTE leader) , Theviyan , Appan and the army soldier Selvaraja Kamalaraja were cold blooded murders committed by the Rajapakse regime based on a conspiracy.

What is most significant in relation to these murders is that the evidence substantiating that they were murders had been provided by the Rajapakse regime itself. 

There are a lot of contradictory evidence pertaining to the killing of S.K.Raja .

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While the official media Director of the State defense Ministry , Brigadier Wanigasuriya was making one statement regarding this death , the Government’s main state media newspaper Dinamina disclosed something else. The Army in regard to the death of Kamalaraja stated officially yesterday(11) at 2.22 p.m. as follows :

Lance Corporal S.K.Raja of the army intelligence corps met with sudden death during training due to shooting following the firing of a firearm of another soldier by accident . The army communiqué which states that the death occurred in the north of Vavuniya does not specifically reveal the exact venue . It says , 10th of April ,but does not state the time of the accident. This communiqué was issued 11th at 2.00 p.m. by the army. The Dinamina newspaper of 12th of the government in its last edition printed in the night after some hours of the issue of the army communiqué, under its caption ‘LTTE new leader Gopi dies after being shot down ; a corporal too dies in a shootout’ states thus :

Following a search operation conducted day before yesterday night (10) , during a confrontation , 

an army corporal has died , army sources revealed. The body of the deceased is lying at the Padaviya hospital. He is RajKumar , a resident of Kurunegala. 

However , the government newspaper Dinamina belonging to the Transport Minister’s brother reported yesterday (12) that a member of the army intelligence Selvaraja who was attached to the Kilinochchi Kokavil army camp who sustained serious injuries in the conflict succumbed to his injuries after admission to Padaviya hospital . 

The Magisterial inquiry was conducted 11th evening on the murdered Kamalaraja. Sirimevan Mahendraraja the Kebithigollawa magistrate had conducted this inquiry most unlawfully. Although it is obligatory that he should go to the venue of the murder and do an inspection , he had instead visited the Padaviya hospital and after casting a cursory glance at the body , given the verdict.

The magistrate is not a judicial medical officer or a detective and he cannot give a verdict without visiting the scene of the crime and holding an inquiry before witnesses. He certainly does not have divine knowledge to do so.

With the international investigation to probe the incidents in Sri Lanka (SL) in the pipeline , the improper and unlawful verdict of the magistrate unfortunately renders him liable to a charge of serious dereliction of duties , and illicitly aiding and abetting in the conspiracy to murder S.K.Raja. 

According to information reaching Lanka e news in connection with these ghastly murders and the spurious drama : 
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following our exposure on the Rajapakse regime’s drama involving yesterday’s murders while in the process of ‘creating’ a new ‘LTTE’ leader , we are in receipt of more evidence . 

Evidence of Kokavil camp army officer :
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A high ranking army officer of the Kilinochchi Kokavil camp told Lanka e news that the so called LTTE leaders Selvanaygam Kapeepan alias Gopi, Sunderalingam Kapeepan alias Theviyan , Navaratnam Navaneethan alias Appan and army intelligence division soldier S.K.Raja for a long time were in the Kilinochchi Kokavil camp. 

This high ranking officer who did not wish to reveal his name added, Gopi was a mess boy engaged in cooking , and the other two were doing laborer jobs. When the war ended , all these three individuals surrendered to the forces claiming that they were forcibly made members of the LTTE, and later were assisting the forces. These individuals were under S.K Raja of the intelligence division . Nevertheless , since one and half months ago the four of them were not to be seen , and it was learnt that they have been transferred to another camp, the high rung officer disclosed.

The same officer gave those details of the four individuals confirmed they were killed yesterday :

ASP R.C.D Senadheera ‘s report :
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The media personnel were not taken to the scene of the crimes.

It is the report of the ASP R C D Senadheera that has been received by Lanka e news as second witness based on the records made by him in the high rung police officer’s record book. This is a three and a half pages record. According to that , when the suspects were trying to escape after shooting at the army , the army had retaliated . However there is no record in the book that any weapon had been found in the vicinity of the bodies of the dead suspects. The record only stated there were blood stains at the venue , 4 haversacks used by the forces , four long term using food packets of the forces and a tent. The records of Sendheera significantly do not make mention of any weapons. 

Report made by Puliyankulam OIC Mohomed Jamal :
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The third evidence received by us was that of Puliyankulam OIC Mohomed Jamal IP . What he has recorded is in the daily record book in two and half pages . His record states that about 2500 army personnel took part in the raid , and about the vehicle that were used , and that Gopi , Theviyan and Appan died in the retaliatory shooting by the army. As there are no emergency regulations currently , the empty cartridges and the weapons have not been handed over to the police.

Besides , in his record there is nothing mentioned about the weapons used by the murdered LTTE ers . What the OIC pastes in that book are most vital and paramount. This OIC Jamal who has made it a point to record the positions of the dead bodies and the Army long term food packets has made his record thus :

During the confrontation , Selvaraja Kamalaraja-ordinary soldier No. 776927 who was attached to the army intelligence division sustained gunshot injuries and was dispatched to the hospital.

This is a police record that cannot be changed , and the police commanding quarters , DIG north , DIG north central , senior DIG crimes , and all intelligence division officers have been informed about this . 

The unlawful post mortem 
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During the period when there exists no emergency regulations a, a magisterial inquiry ought to be held , and that must be conducted by the magistrate under of that magisterial zone where the murder was committed. Yet in this case , the inquiry had been conducted by the Anuradhapura magistrate.

Like how the inquiry was wrongfully and unlawfully conducted by Sirimevan Mahendraraja , the Kebettigollawa Magistrate into the death of S.K.Raja , the Anuradhapura magistrate too had acted wrongfully and unlawfully in the discharge of his official duties . The most ludicrous part of this inquiry is , this magistrate who had been chosen has no knowledge at all of the Tamil language .

வவுனியாவில் மேலும் இரண்டு பெண்கள் கைது

சிறைக்கொட்டடியும், கைவிலங்குகளும்

 10 ஏப்ரல், 2014 

வவுனியா ஆசிகுளம், தரணிக்குளத்தைச் சேர்ந்த சசிகரன் தவமலர் என்ற 42 வயதுடைய தாயாரும், அவருடைய மகளாகிய யதுர்சினி என்ற 16 வயது பாடசாலை மாணவியும் புதன்கிழமை இரவு பயங்கரவாதப் புலனாய்வு பிரிவினரால் கைது செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.

வவுனியா கோமரசங்குளம் மகாவித்தியாலய மாணவியாகிய இவர் இந்த ஆண்டு டிசம்பர் மாதம் நடைபெறவுள்ள கல்விப் பொதுத்தராதரத் தேர்வு எழுதவுள்ளார்.

அண்மைக்காலமாக வடமாகாணத்தில் இடம்பெற்று வரும் இராணுவ சுற்றி வளைப்புகள், தேடுதல்களின்போது, பயங்கரவாதத் தடைச்சட்டத்தின் கீழ் பெண்கள் அதிக அளவில் கைது செய்யப்படுவதைப் பெண்கள் செயற்பாட்டு வலையமைப்பு என்ற அமைப்பு கண்டனம் வெளியிட்ட அன்றைய தினம் இரவு வவுனியாவில் இந்தப் பெண்கள் இருவரும் கைது செய்யப்பட்டிருக்கின்றார்கள்.

கிளிநொச்சி தர்மபுரம் பகுதியில் ஜெயக்குமாரி என்ற பெண்ணும், அவருடைய 14 வயதான மகள் விபூசிக்காவும் சில வாரங்களுக்கு முன்னர் படையினரால் கைது செய்யப்பட்டதைத் தொடர்ந்து, பயங்கரவாதத்திற்கு மீண்டும் உயிரூட்டுவதற்கு முயற்சிகள் மேற்கொள்பவர்களுக்கு உதவி வருகின்றார்கள் என்ற சந்தேகத்தின்பேரில் இதுவரை பலர் கைது செய்யப்பட்டிருக்கின்றனர்.

இதுவரை 65 பேர் இப்படியான குற்றச்சாட்டுக்களின் கீழ் கைது செய்யப்பட்டிருப்பதாக காவல்துறை பேச்சாளர் அஜித் ரோகண தெரிவித்துள்ளார். அவர்களில் 5 பேர் விசாரணைகளின் பின்னர் விடுதலை செய்யப்பட்டிருப்பதாகவும், மிஞ்சியுள்ள 60 பேரில் 10 பேர் பெண்கள் என்றும் அவர் செய்தியாளர்களிடம் வியாழன்று கொழும்பில் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

அதேநேரம் இந்த பெண்கள் அடிப்படை வசதிகளின்றி தடுத்து வைக்கப்பட்டிருப்பதாகவும், கர்ப்பிணியான ஒரு பெண் கைது செய்யப்பட்டு விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டபோது அவருக்குக் கருச்சிதைவு ஏற்பட்டிருந்தது என்றும் பெண்கள் செயற்பாட்டு வலையமைப்பு என்ற அமைப்பு குற்றம் சுமத்தியிருந்ததையும், வைத்திய உதவிகள் தேவைப்படுபவர்களுக்கு அந்த வசதிகள் செய்யப்படவில்லை என்ற குற்றச்சாட்டையும் அவர் நிராகரித்திருக்கின்றார்.

Counter Justification For A National Security State Through National Unity Charter

By Jehan Perera -April 13, 2014

Jehan Perera

Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunge gave an early warning of things to come during his visit to Washington DC in February to lobby against the proposed UNHRC resolution on war crimes that was being led by the United States and reached its denouement in the vote in Geneva on March 27.  The presidential secretary drew upon his knowledge of the workings of Sri Lankan society and government to warn of chaos if the resolution was passed.  At that time he was criticized for making this statement.  It was seen as reviving the ghosts of Sri Lanka’s most tragic episodes, the anti Tamil riots of 1983, behind of which were sections of the then government.  The larger implication of his statement was that an international investigation into the last phase of the war, which would implicate those who ended LTTE terror in the country would be resisted to the fullest extent possible.

Those who have been seeking to promote accountability in Sri Lanka, as the means to reconciliation, are perhaps thinking in rational terms in which concepts of Rule of Law, Due Process and Separation of Powers prevail.  But it appears that what exists in most parts of the world is something entirely different.  The March 31 issue of Time magazine has a commentary on how geopolitics impacts on the way nations act.  It refers to Russia’s takeover of Crimea, and the response of the United States and its Western allies who have been impotent to stop the course of events.  The article by Robert Kaplan states, “The worldwide civil society that the elites thought they could engineer is a chimera.  The geopolitical forces at work will not be easily tamed.  While our foreign policy must be morally based, the analysis behind it must be cold blooded, with geography as its starting point.  In geopolitics the past never dies and there is no modern world.”

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Tamil people subjected to Genocide - TNA

[TamilNet, Sunday, 12 April 2009, 07:18 GMT]
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in an urgent statement issued on Sunday pointed out the dramatic rise in Tamil civilian casualties over the last two weeks and said over 4,100 Tamil civilians have been killed and over 8,800 gravely injured within the four months of this year. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the TNA, in the statement said that 707 Tamil civilians have been killed within the last 9 days alone and over 1,000 gravely injured. Sri Lankan State's armed forces were deliberately targeting Tamil civilians and that the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka are clearly being subjected to Genocide, the TNA said. It urged the International Community to compel the Sri Lankan Government to stop all military operations immediately and to bring about an immediate ceasefire between the Sri Lankan State and the LTTE. 

Full text of the press statement issued by the TNA Foreign Relations Committee follows:

FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE
TAMIL NATIONAL ALLIANCE 
12 April 2009.

URGENT PRESS RELEASE

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) joins the Tamil Diaspora in drawing attention to the catastrophic situation being faced by the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka. Since the beginnings of this year, over 4100 Tamil civilians have been killed and over 8800 gravely injured as a result of the deliberate targeting of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan State’s armed forces. All these Tamil civilians have been killed in areas demarcated by the Sri Lankan State as ‘safe zones’ for civilians.

The TNA is alarmed by the dramatic rise in Tamil civilian casualties over the last two weeks. Within the last 9 days alone, 707 Tamil civilians have been killed and over 1000 gravely injured. In addition, The Sri Lankan State by imposing an embargo on food, medicine and desperately needed humanitarian assistance has precipitated a humanitarian catastrophe.

The Sri Lankan State’s use of food and medicine as weapons of war is a war crime under international law.

The situation faced by the Tamil people is unprecedented. Whilst a considerable section of the Tamil people are being exterminated in the so called “safe zones”, or are in imminent danger of being exterminated, the remaining sections are being systematically silenced by being herded into concentration camps, terrorized by mass round ups, abductions and forced disappearances. 

Even when the Sri Lankan State armed forces’ military operations were purportedly concentrated elsewhere the Tamil civilian casualty figures within the “safe zone” had reached unprecedented levels. 

It is the considered view of the TNA, that the recent official announcements of the Sri Lankan State’s intention to launch “maneuvers” to takeover the “safe zone”, implies a calculated move to exterminate the 300,000 Tamil civilians living within the said zone. 

The use by the Sri Lankan State of internationally banned weapons, such as cluster bombs and chemical weapons, has been a characteristic feature of the current phase of the war being waged against the Tamil people.

The Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka are clearly being subjected to Genocide.

It is in these dire circumstances of an accelerated Genocide by unprecedented levels of Tamil civilian killings and the imminent extermination of those within the “safe zone”, that the TNA appeals to India and the rest of the international community to: -

• Compel the Sri Lankan Government to stop all military operation immediately
• Bring about an immediate ceasefire between the Sri Lankan State and the LTTE
• Compel the Sri Lankan Government to ensure that unrestricted humanitarian aid reaches the Tamil people situated within the “safe zone” immediately
• Compel the Sri Lankan Government to provide immediate unrestricted access to the ICRC, the UN and other humanitarian agencies