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Tamils Auschwitz - Release Illegally- Imprisoned thousands of Tamils from Srilankan Govt.
It’s been more than 18 months since the bloody genocidal war was over in Srilanka against Tamils. After the war the Srilankan army and government imprisoned the entire population lived under the eelam land which was assured to them by the peace negotiations brokered by Norway.
Children, Elders,Women, Wounded, Disabled and others were imprisoned illegally by the Government of Srilanka (GoSL). The Srilankan Govt doesn’t yield to the international pressure and still keep them in the inhuman conditions, despite the Timesonline of UK reported atleast 1400 people were killed every week during 2009.
The male adults who are separated from their families and put in a separate intern camps were not accounted for their lives yet. These camps for both men and others are more gruesome and inhuman in every possible way. Those who are released from the camps are disabled, elders and malnourished and were not allowed to settle in their own land or at their home or at least in their villages. We are regularly receiving information about the harassments on the women, children and men living in the camps and most of them are worst than the crimes committed either in AbuGharib or in Guantanamo Internment.
The worst part in this internment is the Silent Genocide on Tamils.
It’s worth to mention this is the Tamils Auschwitz. We have already presented the number of deaths happened during the war to the UN but we yet to get to know how many are killed during the internment or postwar crimes. There are numerous reports were reported in the international media and even European Union withdrew its trade concessions GSP+ which is lifeline of Srilanka’s export business.
The tamil community of srilanka already lost about 147,000 civilians during the 2 year long war, and the community still has to come to terms with the trauma caused by the inhumane war of GoSL, and its very unfair for them to get suffer under the inhumane conditions in an internment camp, as this is insult to the civilized world.
Lets raise our voice and defeat the modern day Hitler and protect those voiceless Srilankan Eelam tamils. And its duty of the international community to come forward and make the GoSL to release all those IDPs (Internally Displaced People) and resettle them in their own town and in their own home.
Since independence from Britain in 1948, thousands of Tamils have been ethnically cleansed by the state from their traditional lands in the North-East of the island to make way for state-aided Sinhalese colonisation. In 1956, Sinhala was made the sole official language to the exclusion of Tamil.
Since 1956, state-sponsored pogroms targeting Tamil civilians have resulted in thousands of Murders, Rapes and Properties being Destroyed. In 1981, the Jaffna Library, which housed over 95,000 Tamil books including many irreplaceable manuscripts, was burned to the ground by government forces in an act aimed to erase the cultural heritage of the Tamils.
Since the inception of war in 1983, tens of thousands of Tamil civilians have been Murdered, Raped and Tortured by government forces with complete impunity. In the first 5 months of 2009 alone, over 40,000 Tamil civilians were massacred by the Sri Lankan army in the Vanni region. Killing of nearly 2,00,000 Innocents, War Crimes, Ongoing Slaughter on the Journalists, Moderates, Reformists, Artists and having opposition leader behind the bars make the Srilanka as a criminal and a Failed State.
The Tamil people have suffered over 60 years of oppression and acts of genocide. We fervently believe that the Tamil people have a right to self-determination and that they should be able to freely determine their own political status in their traditional homeland in the North-East of Sri Lanka.
The recent detainment of 3,00,000 Tamil civilians in concentration camps for months on end is the latest form of inhumane treatment being meted out to the Tamils.
Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's) in srilanka
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=576&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=internally+displaced+persons+in+srilanka&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) - Internal Colonialism of Sri Lanka!
http://vkr1976.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IC.pdf
IDP's Let the people go
http://vkr1976.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Status-of-detained-Tamils-in-concentration-camps-Revision-4.pdf
Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Srilanka - I
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/17/18659002.php
Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Srilanka - II
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/17/18659022.php
Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Srilanka - III
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/17/18659042.php
Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Srilanka - IV
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/17/18659063.php
These camps are setup and run by Sri Lankan military without access to International Aid Agencies and News Media. Innocent civilians and children are taken away never to be seen again.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383449.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6676792.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/5382676/Sri-Lanka-accused-of-ethnic-cleansing-of-Tamil-areas.html
http://tamilamericans.com/attachments/064_Current%20crisis%20-%20BTF%20-%201.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZb-0ynF56c
Sri Lanka: IDPs and returnees remain in need of protection and assistance
http://www.internal-displacement.org/countries/srilanka
The Tamil people of Sri Lanka have suffered over 60 years of oppression and acts of genocide at the hands of successive Governments of Sri Lanka on the basis of their ethnicity.
The Tamil people have a right to self-determination and that they should be able to freely determine their own political status in their traditional homeland in the North-East of Sri Lanka. An UN referendum should be held in the North-East just as was done in Kosovo and East Timor to let the people living there freely decide how they would like to be governed.
The GoSL should ends its occupation of the Tamil areas and accept the wishes of those who live there by immediately withdrawing the occupying Sri Lankan army.
There should be an independent, international inquiry into all the alleged human rights violations and war crimes committed by all parties in the conflict in 2009. Accountability for war crimes must be ensured and perpetrators must be prosecuted and brought to justice, internationally if required.
The British government’s role in arming, funding and abetting the GoSL to fight this war against the Tamil people is abhorrent. Their silence and lack of condemnation for the GoSL violations of human rights and war crimes is a sign of their complicity in the atrocities.
The detention of hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians in concentration camps is inhumane and unjustified and should cease immediately.
All civilians that have been evicted from their ancestral lands in the North-East should have a right to return, and that the GoSL should cease the grabbing of land from the Tamil speaking people by Sinhalese colonists.
The media freedom should be upheld throughout the island. Aid agencies and human rights monitors must be given full access to the camps.
The EU’s decision to not revoke the GSP+ concession despite Sri Lanka failing to comply with the human rights criteria needed to qualify is hypocritical and puts the EU’s credibility into question.
REFERENCES:
Srilanka: If this isn't GENOCIDE, WAR CRIME, Then What on Earth is?
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/srilanka_if_this_isnt_genocide_war_crime_then_what_on_earth_is
Grisly Photos Reveal Genocide by Sri Lankan Government Against Tamil People - www.Salem-News.com
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/august072010/srilanka-violence-mv.php
Sri Lanka: Rape in custody
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/001/2002/en
Sri Lanka: Fear of Torture / Medical Concern / Death in Custody
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA37/015/2000/en/dom-ASA370152000en.html
Sri Lanka accused of 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Tamil areas
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/5382676/Sri-Lanka-accused-of-ethnic-cleansing-of-Tamil-areas.html
The Hidden Massacre: Sri Lanka’s final offensive against Tamil Tigers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383449.ece
Tamil death toll ‘is 1,400 a week’ at Manik Farm camp in Sri Lanka
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6676792.ece
Sri Lanka Execution Video: New War Crimes Claims - Channel 4 News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtGNLneU5Cw
Up to 40,000 civilians 'Died in Sri Lanka Offensive'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/up-to-40000-civilians-died-in-sri-lanka-offensive-1897865.html
Sri Lanka Video: UN considers violations – Channel 4 news
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/sri%20lanka%20video%20un%20considers%20violations/3493047
Sri Lankan Guards 'Sexually abused Girls' in Tamil Refugee Camp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/20/tamil-tigers-sri-lanka-refugees
Daily Telegraph, 26th May 2009. Sri Lanka accused of 'ethnic cleansing' of Tamil areas
Available URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/5382676/Sri-Lanka-accused-of-ethnic-cleansing-of-Tamil-areas.html
Robert Kilroy-Silk, M.P. & Roger Sims, M.P - United Kingdom Parliamentary Human Rights Group Report on February 1985
Witnesses also confirmed allegations made to us that whole villages have been emptied and neighbourhoods have been driven by the army from their homes and occupations and turned into refugees...We can say, without doubt, that the Government is driving Tamils from their homes and does intend to settle Sinhalese people in these areas.
http://www.umsu.manchester.ac.uk/downloads/gm_motions/gm_motionB_17.3.10.pdf
The Sunday Times magazine - Simon Winchester - 18 August 1985 – A Village that died in a day
http://www.tamilnation.org/indictment/indict036.htm
University Teachers of Human Rights (J) - 13th February 1995 - Padaviya-Weli Oya: Bearing the Burden of Ideology
http://www.uthr.org/bulletins/bul4.htm
Reporters San Frontieres – 24th August 2007, Jaffna’s media in the grip of terror
http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=23380
Tarzie Vittachi – 1958, Emergency ‘58
http://www.tamilnation.org/books/eelam/vitachi.pdf
North-East Secretariat of Human Rights – 2007. Lest we forget Part I
http://www.nesohr.org/files/Lest_We_Forget.pdf
North-East Secretariat of Human Rights – 2008. Lest We Forget Part II
http://www.nesohr.org/files/Lest_We_Forget-II.pdf
Bruce Fein, 2009 - United States of America v. Gotabaya Rajapaska and Sarath Fonseka – Grand Jury Indictment for Genocide
http://www.tamilsagainstgenocide.org/
World Socialist Web Site – 25th June 1999 - Eyewitness account from Sri Lanka: Tamil mass graves excavated in Chemmani
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jun1999/sri-j26.shtml
Ziad Obermeyer – 19th June 2008. Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme, BMJ
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.a137
Amnesty International - 2002 - Sri Lanka: Rape in custody
http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA370012002?open&of=ENG-2AS
Amnesty International – 1997 - Sri Lanka: Extrajudicial execution / rape: Murugesupillai Koneswary
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/013/1997/en
M. Peel, A. Mahtani, G. Hinshelwood and D. Forrest - Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture - The Sexual Abuse of Men in Detention in Sri Lanka - The Lancet, June 10, 2000; vol. 355; pp. 2069-2070.
http://www.sangam.org/2008/10/Sexual_Predation.php?uid=3108
Medical foundation for the care of victims of torture – 2009 - Torture once again rampart in the Sri Lanka conflict.
http://www.torturecare.org.uk/resources/publications/2105
UN Working group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - 2009 - Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disappear/docs/A.HRC.10.9.pdf
Human Rights Watch, June 4th 2009, Sri Lanka – Disappearances by security forces a national crisis
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/06/04/sri-lanka-disappearances-security-forces-national-crisis
Human Rights Watch, 2009 - Sri Lanka's Ghosts
http://www.hrw.org/node/62462
Inner City Press, June 2nd 2009, In Sri Lanka 13,130 Missing IDPs Reported But Downplayed By UN, Journalist Beaten
http://www.innercitypress.com/untrip3may3srilanka060209.html
Desmond Tutu, 15th May 2008 – No Right to be there
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/15/norighttobethere
Amnesty International, 1st September 2009 - Sri Lanka jails journalist for 20 years for exercising his right to freedom of expression
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/sri-lanka-jails-journalist-20-years-exercising-right-freedom-expression-20090901
Al Jazeera,13 Feb 2009, Listening Post - Conflict coverage in Sri Lanka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEqqg-sPmKA
Channel 4 News, 5th May 2009, Grim scenes at Sri Lankan Camps
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/grim+scenes+at+sri+lankan+camps+/3126257
Channel 4 News, 29th May 2009, Sri Lanka – 40,000 civilians killed
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/sri+lanka+20000+civilians+killed/3180857
The Times, 29th May 2009, The hidden massacre: Sri Lanka’s final offensiveagainst Tamil Tigers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383449.ece
The Times, 29th May 2009, Times photographs expose Sri Lanka’s lie on civilian deaths at beach
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383477.ece
Le Monde, 28th May 2009, L'ONU a caché l'ampleur des massacres au Sri Lanka
http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2009/05/28/sri-lanka-l-onu-a-cache-l-ampleur-des-massacres_1199091_3216.html
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2009 - Up to 30,000 'disabled' by Sri Lankan shells
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/5378047/Up-to-30000-disabled-by-Sri-Lankan-shells.html
Human Rights Watch, May 8th 2009, Repeated Shelling of Hospitals Evidence of War Crimes
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/05/08/sri-lanka-repeated-shelling-hospitals-evidence-war-crimes
BBC News, 8th September 2008, Sri Lanka bars foreign aid staff
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7604933.stm
Radio Australia, 9th September 2008, Sri Lanka orders aid agencies out of the North
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/programguide/stories/200809/s2359170.htm
The Times, June 2nd 2009, Britain sold weapons to help Sri Lankan Army defeat Tamil Tigers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6410718.ece
The Australian, 2nd July 2009, Tamil refugees forced into sex rackets
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25721366-25837,00.html
Channel 4 News, 25th August 2009, Is this evidence of war crimes in Sri Lanka?
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/execution%20video%20is%20this%20evidence%20of%20war%20crimes%20in%20sri%20lanka/3321087
The Times, 25th May 2009, 200,000 Tamil civilians imprisoned in Sri Lankan Manik Farm camp
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6355503.ece
Channel 4 News, 17th June 2009, Fresh Claims over Tamil casualties
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/fresh+claims+over+tamil+casualties/3217257
The Independent, May 22nd 2009, Families trapped in Sri Lanka camps fear for missing children
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/families-trapped-in-sri-lanka-camps-fear-for-missing-children-1689240.html
The Times, July 10, 2009, Tamil death toll is 1,400 a week at Manik Farm Camp in Sri Lanka
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6676792.ece
Human Rights Watch, August 17th 2009, Sri Lanka – Flood threaten Camp detainees
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/08/17/sri-lanka-floods-threaten-camp-detainees
Amnesty International - 11th July 2009, 20 years of Make Believe - Sri Lanka's Commissions of Inquiry
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA37/005/2009/en
Robert N. Kearney, Ethnic Conflict and the Tamil Separatist Movement in Sri Lanka. Published by: University of California Press.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2644418
CNN – 25th November 2009, UN: 150,000 still in Sri Lankan Camps
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/24/un.srilanka/
The Boston Globe – February 15th 2009, Genocide in Sri Lanka
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/02/15/genocide_in_sri_lanka/
Bruce Fein – February 5th 2009, Investigation of U.S. citizen and U.S. green card holder for genocide, war crimes, and torture against Tamils in Sri Lanka
http://www.tamilsagainstgenocide.org/NewsStory.aspx
ColomboPage – October 29th 2009, New hope for GSP+ concession to SriLanka
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Oct1256831176KA.html
Sri Lanka is one of the top “red alert” countries at risk for genocide (Genocide Prevention Project)
http://www.preventorprotect.org/overview/watch-list.html
Sri Lanka was voted off United Nations Humans Rights Council in 2008 (Asian Human Rights Council)
http://www.ahrchk.net/ahrc-in-news/mainfile.php/2008ahrcinnews/1994/
Sri Lanka has a history of expelling UN and human rights monitors from the country (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8240415.stm
Sri Lanka is ranked as having the 2nd highest rate of disappearances in the world (United Nations)
http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/6623289D5FA5F96B85256D49004EFB07
Sri Lanka is one of the most dangerous places for journalists (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7293303.stm
Culture of impunity: despite pervasive human rights violations, very few are ever held accountable (International Press Freedom Mission)
http://www.newssafety.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11366%3Aglobal-media-rights-groups-condemn-qculture-of-impunity-and-indifferenceq-in-sri-lanka&catid=314%3Apress-room-news-release&Itemid=100077
1,30,000 + civilians denied access to freedom of movement in internment camps (Human Rights Watch)
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/24/sri-lanka-free-all-unlawfully-detained
40,000 + Civilian Casualties just at the end of the war alone (ABC News)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/30/sri-lanka-war-crimes
Continued restrictions on Humanitarian Aid in IDP camps (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052101144.html
Ethnic Tamils Genocide in 8 stages
http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/8StagesBriefingpaper.pdf
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/country/grid/id/163/n/Sri-Lanka
DUBLIN TRIBUNAL FINDS against Sri Lanka on charges of War Crimes
http://www.ifpsl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=1
Sri Lanka execution video 'Not Fake'
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/sri+lanka+execution+video+aposnot+fakeapos/3464152
Srilankan Tamil Killings "Ordered from the Top" - Senior Srilankan Army Commander - By Jonathan Miller - Channel 4 News
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/sri+lanka+option/3652687
Photos allege Sri Lanka massacre - Photographs obtained by Al Jazeera appear to show massacre of Tamils during final stages of Sri Lanka's civil war.
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2010/11/2010111010021857352.html
VIDEOS
Evidence of Genocide & War Crimes committed by the Government of Sri Lanka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5KDXlY4eR8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFKlQT_Ta8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DK7leSySfn0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eksn5X7lT6s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRy52K0gjCQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb9QX4AYGys&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZODCxStdHg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikqp4u-fmtA&feature=related
http://en.kendincos.net/video-hndhvvp-shocking-leak-sri-lankan-army-mass-rape-and-execution-of-tamil-women-report-by-australian-media-.html
http://www.pakistan.tv/videos-war-crimes-during-the-sri-lankan-%5BsGGwyMeLs70%5D.cfm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7zaSJMkXuE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDSsEXjsbhQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF0fJJn6oi0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7zaSJMkXuE&feature=related
LEADERS VOICE
Sri Lanka's disturbing actions met by ‘deafening global silence' - The Elders
http://www.theelders.org/media/mediareleases/sri-lankas-disturbing-actions-met-by-deafening-global-silence
Rajapaksa extremism cannot be changed: Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew
http://www.allvoices.com/news/5947796-sri-lanka-rajapaksa-extremism-cannot-be-changed-lee-kuan-yew
STOPPING GENOCIDE AND WAR CRIMES AGAINST THE TAMILS OF SRI LANKA (It is a systematic genocide under the garb of war on terror in Sri Lanka!) - By Francis A. Boyle
http://www.tamilsagainstgenocide.org/News.aspx
Arunthathi Roy's article about Srilanka
http://esocialbytes.blogspot.com/2009/04/silent-horror-of-war-in-srilanka.html
LTTE not a terrorist organisation - Karen Parker
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/ltte-not-terrorist-organisation-karen-parker
Humanitarian Catastrophe in Sri Lanka - Dr Ellyn Shander
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/update-humanitarian-catastrophe-in-sri-lanka.htm
India upset with China over Sri Lanka crisis - Chellaney
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India-upset-with-China-over-Sri-Lanka-crisis/articleshow/4449209.cms
How Cuba and the ABLA Let Down Tamils - By RON RIDENOUR
http://www.counterpunch.org/ridenour11162009.html
The Historic Right to Nationhood Tamil Eelam - By RON RIDENOUR
http://www.counterpunch.org/ridenour11182009.html
Dr Anna Neistat from Human Rights Watch about Sri Lankan camps (human rights watch dr anna neistat about tamil in sri lankan concentrationcamps.wmv)
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/dr-anna-neistat-human-rights-watch-about-sri-lankan-camps
Genocide in Sri Lanka - Bruce Fein
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/02/15/genocide_in_sri_lanka/
This is not a war on terror. It is a racist war on all Tamils in Srilanka - Arundhati Roy (Indian Novelist, Activist and Booker Prize Winner)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/01/sri-lanka-india-tamil-tigers
Whose Responsibility is it to protect? - Jagmohan Singh - Editor - World Sikh News & Political activist based in Ludhiana, Punjab (India)
http://worldsikhnews.com/22%20April%202009/Whose%20Responsibility%20is%20it%20to%20protect.htm