Sri Lanka: skeletons in the cupboard?
The UN Human Rights Commissioner didn’t mince her words this week when she accused the Sri Lankan government of ‘triumphalism’ in the Tamil north, home of the vanquished Tamil Tiger insurgency. In a report published on Monday, Navi Pillay said civilians in the region known as ‘the Vanni’ have been forbidden from commemorating those killed in the war.
Tamil Tiger cemeteries, containing more than 20,000 graves, have reportedly been bulldozed by Sri Lankan government forces, now occupying the Vanni. Museums and memorials commemorating the victors have sprung up across the province. These, in Ms Pillay’s words, “tend to use triumphalist images from which the local population feels a strong sense of alienation.”
Government rejects call for demilitarisation
The high commissioner again called for an international investigation into alleged war crimes committed as the 27-year-long war drew to a close four years ago.
The Sri Lankan government response to the UN human rights commissioner’s report was predictably dismissive. It rejected her call for the demilitarisation of the Vanni.
The government also continued to insist that “there is no evidence that the Channel 4 footage of executions is genuine”. The footage, first broadcast by Channel 4 News has been authenticated by numerous independent experts including the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings.
Immediately following the publication of Ms Pillay’s report, President Mahinda Rajapaksa decided it was an appropriate time to pay a visit to Jaffna, capital of the Vanni. He’s just spent two days on the Jaffna Peninsula, inspecting “ongoing development activity”.
‘Military-run tourism’
The triumphalism described by Ms Pillay is well illustrated in this article, on “the rise of military–run tourism” in the former war zone, and published by the London-based Sri Lanka campaign for peace and justice.
“Visitors are offered a guided tour” of the former Tamil Tigers’ operations hub, it reports, comprising “a three-storey underground bunker, a firing range, a film hall, a semi-underground garage and a funeral parlour.
“What is absent are details of the suffering faced by the Tamils who lived in constant fear of the LTTE, and then persecution by the Sri Lankan army.”
The ghosts of Sri Lanka’s violent past are proving hard to exorcise. Not least for the second-most-powerful man in the country: the president’s brother, Gotabaya Rajapakse.
The defence and urban development secretary, credited with crushing the Tamil Tiger rebellion (at the cost of tens of thousands of Tamil civilian lives) has now been widely linked in the Sri Lankan press to mass killings 20 years ago while he was a senior army commander. Back then, though, the alleged victims are said to have been Sinhalese Marxist insurgents.
JVP demands investigation
Human remains of what could be as many as 200 people were first discovered in the central town of Matale in December last year. Politicians belonging to the JVP party allege that the victims were killed having been tortured and that the heads and arms of legs of many of them had been severed.
The then government was widely accused of running torture chambers in the Matare area in the late 1980s and of conducting extra-judicial executions. As many as 60,000 JVP insurgents were reportedly killed. The JVP, now a parliamentary party, is demanding a thorough investigation into what happened in Matale.
According to the Sri Lankan defence ministry website, the military’s coordinating officer and then commanding officer in the area at the time was none other than Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
And among more junior officers serving under Lt Col Rajapaksa, names familiar to Tamil survivors of the Vanni war. Names like Shavendra Silva and Jagath Dias, both senior generals in the final decisive months of the civil war. Another was Sumedha Perera, the security forces’ commander in the Vanni until last August.
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Recovery and Reconciliation for Tamils in Sri Lanka is only on paper. Its a trick word used by the Sri Lankan Government to keep away others but how long they can hide the truth? I’m another witness for Sri Lanka’s Genocide. Don’t think its only Mahinda gov is killing Tamils. The previous SL Govs also did the same thing but Mahinda broken the record.
LTTE issue came in 30 years ago but the Tamil Political Leaders already raised the Tamils national issues with the majority Sinhalese over 60 years ago. You must see the history before LTTE as the Tamil political leaders signed many Pacts with the previous SL Govs but all torn off/failed to implement by the Govs. So Mahinda is not the only one! A true and honest permanent political solution for Tamils must be seen through International Independent Investigation.
The Sinhalese/Tamil problem was created by the British who ruled Ceylon at the time, long before Ceylon became an independent sovereign nation. The British thrived on their ‘divide and rule’ policy in the sub-continent, for their own advantage.The British discriminated the Sinhalese against Tamils. Tamils were given preferential treatment in education, employment, health etc. The Tamil leaders in the State Council wanted parity for a mere 900,000 Tamils against 4 million Sinhalese. Terrorism was brainwashed in the minds of the Tamils to rise up against the Sinhalese. That was the beginning of the Tamil terrorist movement in the 1970′s. This is the true history before the LTTE.
The majority of the Tamil population live outside the north and the east. Only 25% of Tamils live there. The rest 75% live in Colombo, Kandy and other major towns peacefully with the Sinhalese. There was only a terrorist problem and there has never ever a Tamil problem. There are no ethnic enclaves exclusively for the Tamils or any other race.
Finally how can Navi Pillay a supporter of the defunct LTTE and the ‘diaspora’ now consisting of former LTTE supporters, be the UN Human Rights…
We suffered immensely due to LTTE acts and no one talked about the killings of the LTTE those days. Once the innocent people are freed from LTTE, some of the so called human right leaders want removal of military from the north. If it is done LTTE will regroup easily with the support from the Western Tamils and TN in India. That means again another round of killings by the LTTE. We will not allow any Sri Lankan Governments to reduce the military in the north. North is also a part of the country and we all want to live together. HR people should stop supporting LTTE.
You are right you too have suffered a lot during the LTTE time but, you must understand who was the cause for the LTTE to rise up. All the previous governments in power did not want to share the rule with Tamils. They destroyed our economy, homes and lives ,education and livelihood, because we were belongs to minority group. Now, no point of putting the entire blame on LTTE your leaders have to take the responsibly for this situation. Even after 65 years of independent our people have not changed their mindset. When are we going to change only God knows.
Did you?
Tamils suffered, are suffering and will suffer at the hands of Sri Lankan military and its Sinahlese leaders.
Prabakaren, leader of the LTTE,a ruthless terrorist of the century, terrorised his own people,the Tamils. Tamil children were snatched from from the mothers bosom, to be trained as suicide bombers or improvised explosive devises. There are many a Tamil still awaiting their chance to avenge the death of their loved ones, who died because of Mr, P. To pay homage to a world criminal is like Mr. P is like trying to build a monument, to Osama Binladen in New York city. People, that is the Sinhalese and the Tamils, will rise up and take law to their hands. This will lead to unnecessary turmoil and chaos in Sri Lanka. Most prudent thing to do is erase amy kind of memory of Mr P from Sri Lanka. No monuments to him or his followers!!
This nothing but the usual sinhalese false propaganda
Giving a good orientation to the mass how lawless it used to be at gunpoint of the LTTE, is very important to maintain the sovereignty of the island. In the general nature of passive thought processing on the LTTE terror had been almost cost the physical division of Sri Lanka. Proven fact is that many local and global interests want Sri Lanka to be next Libya or Syria in order to secure the flow of their bread and butter. Fortifying against all these factors is a necessity in order to survive as a democratic nation.
Lawless? Try the killings of journalists and the white van abductions sill going on in Sri Lanka.
Check the conditions in the military garrison of a North. Freedom-less and now occupied by Sri Lanakan military.
this tamil orginated lady was trying to disgrace our mother lanka as even during the war time and never mentioned the brutalaty of the northen terrorists. her intention is only to disgrace srilanka and she never try to mention the iraq and afganistan where thousends of people including children brutally killed by the us forces. be equal to every country.lal
Navi Pillay issued a statement on 26 April 2011 welcoming the publication of the (UNSG Panel ) report and supporting the report’s call for further international investigation. The statement went on to state;”The way this conflict was conducted, under the guise of fighting terrorism, challenged the very foundations of the rules of war and cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians.”
Can a head of UN organization make such an irresponsible statement that the war conducted by the govt of SL was a mere pretext to kill tens of thousands of Tamil civilians?. To her LTTE was not a group of ruthless terrorists.
She is totally biased against SL and is only another pro LTTE voice.
If after studying all available UN reports she came to her conclusions then she is entitled to say so. What has
to be remembered most of all is that the SL government supposedly representing all its “citizens” which it failed to do from 1948 September to date was and is on paper “the state” with far higher level of responsibilities than a non-state actor like the LTTE or for that matter half a dozen other Tamil rebels some of whom are now partners in government. This the SL state dismally failed to do even before the LTTE were even born! It was the terrorism of a racist-religious-language crazed Sinhala Only Buddhism foremost so-called majoriarian state from 1971 to even the present day that has destroyed not only the Tamils but also the rest of the communities by failed governance, absence of the rule of law and justice. Of course the LTTE after the July 1983 pogrom organised by that government and an ensuing war against the Tamils under cover of fighting the youths viciosuly embarked on a genocidal war also retaliated with vicious violence against both Tamils who opposed them or failed to cooperate and the Sinhalas. Recall what late President JRJayewardene said on state TV…
Well Pillai,
Why don’t you wash your undies somewhere else for money? Try Adele hiding somewhere overseas or MIA in USA or Frances in UK. You may lose some when wars are stopped I understand but think of the living and not the dead or start from Hiroshima and Nagasaki instead! By the way, you must still be quite rich by all means by now! Getting paid from Moon, Vaiko & the clan and not to mention Erik & the gang, must really betelling on you since you cannot enjoy much at your age. Not even a cuppa with sugar if you know what I mean!
Seriously would USA and UK leave a cemetery of Osama and co in US or UK soil?
I don’t think so. Why should Sri Lanka keep a cemetery built for deceased of one of the most brutal terrorist organisations in the world (Most dangerous according to FBI)?
True, but don’t forget Osama was not a US citizen. The LTTE and other rebels were SL babes nursed in the art of state terror which they tried to outdo. With help of 30 countries which sold the SL state tens of billions $ worth of arms, armaments, including WMDs, they and some 170,000 Tamil civilians as well as 5000 Sinhala civilians are no more. The SL state lost 25,500 Sinhala military while the rebels lost possibly 35,000 of their kind. And all for want of proper governance but the Sinhala Only state has achieved what it set out to do: Sinhala Only and Buddhism foremost from day 1 under cover of a pseudo democraZy! Their political leaders need to be highly commended for their unfailing mono-vision.
It is quite clear that the writer is trying to stretch little coincidences into very serious allegations. It is laughable to see insinuations in the article to put blame on Gotabaya Rajapakse and key army officers for what was done 20 years ago in the South of Sri Lanka by the then government which is the party that is currently in the opposition (UNP). The JVP Marxist insurgency was crushed by the UNP government which was heavily backed by the US and the west in general. There were no allegations of Human rights violations at the time as the UNP was carrying out what the US wanted… to NOT have any new Marxists movements taking over a country anywhere. It has to be made clear that the government politicians directed the moves against the JVP. They used special squads rather than the army. Most of those squads were from Police Special Task Forces which had nothing to do with the army. An ignorant write, who is probably a LTTE sympathizer or paid by the LTTE, is really reaching trying to create facts that does not exist. It is no different to all the made up number of civilians deaths at the end of the war in 2009. As they say… when you repeat a lie as many times as you can, it…
Sorry Mr.Kato you seem to be getting your facts all mixed up. The JVP insurgency started in 1970 and was viciously put down by the military during the late Sirimavo Bandaranaike government until 1975. The JVP re-surfaced in the 1970s and 1980s too under the UNP governments. Tens of thousands of Sinhala youths perished as also did many other Sinhalas. There was a Commission of Inquiry during the Bandaranaike era but their findings were never made public. The causes were ostensibly due to high unemploymnt among educated youths and overthrow of the state and its replacement by a communist government of the Norh Korean type. Tens of thousands perished. Their human rights were defended by none other than a young lawyer called Mahinda Rajapakse! What a strange twist of destiny today!
The UN is complicit for turning their face away and leaving the Tamil citizens to their fate. I hope those in the Sri Lankan government and army who are responsible for the murders of the Tamils in the north are prosecuted as war criminals and executed. The difference between a legitimate government and terrorists is that any legitimate government should act with self-control. When they loose that control they become like the terrorists they are fighting.
Should all the Commonwealth nations now review Sri Lanka’s participation in the Commonwealth?
We try to maintain democracy, decency and the rule of law in Commonwealth matters. Does Sri Lanka meet those criteria any more?
Perhaps a suspension alongside Zimbabwe would be appropriate.
Sri Lanka is on par or worse than Pakistan before it was kicked out of the Commonwealth. No rule of law,no justice in a state which is unashamedly transmuted into a dictatorship under the 18th amendment and does terrible violence even to its own judges and sacks the CJ politically and arbitararily together with umpteen crimes against humanity to its citizens does not merit to host the CHOGM by a large measure. Else, it will mar its good name for ever.
Navi Pillai maybe the UN human Rights commissioner but she is a tamil and Sri Lankans do not care for her racially and culturally biased opinions. Militarization or Demilitarization of any area in Sri lanka is the duty of the GoSL as per the needs of security of the nation. A completely internal matter for the government of a country. Why does Navi Pillai ask US, UK France and others who have militarized foreign countries to demilitarize them! She will be kicked out from her job! Navi Pillai if you are honest withdraw from your position as you have not only a stake with Tamil Eelam but blood relations which is clouding your opinions and decisions.
I cannot believe that the UN lack of action. Why they let the all party to run to ruin the whole country ? UN is spineless. That is why people like Rambukwela and other big mouths are critics e the UN. I don’t support any voluntary organizations since 2009. Non of them did not take action against SL govt or LTTE. They did not look at the Tamil people who trapped in the war zone. Let the god give punishment to the wrong doing party. This is called KALI Yuga.
who cares
India!
I have seen the documentary film SRI LANKA’S KILLING FIELDS last year. Many Thanks for Jon Snow for the presentation of the forensic investigation. Furthermore I heard that Channel 4 and ITN Productions making another film called “NO FIRE ZONE”.
According to UN report, government of Sri Lanka committed war crimes. Government records show that 430,000 people were living in the Vanni in 2008. After the final days of the war, the government moved civilians into camps which held 290,000 people, according to UN statistics. The killings accounted for 40,000 people. The whereabouts of the remaining 100,000 are still not known except that a large number of people picked up in white vans simply disappeared without a trace. I kindly request the Channel 4 News Team; please investigate the whereabouts of the remaining 100,000 innocent Tamil people. Thank you again. Ms Nicole Young
Yes, full accountability is sorely needed and lacking most of all because the government is ina state of denial. waht is also very worrisome was the news after May 2009 that SL had imported cooking furnaces to the vanni apparently for a “fishery project” with the Chinese. The UN should investigate this fully as it sounds very fishy indeed. And also the import and use of WMDs from Jan to May 2009 and their effects on the poor civilian victims who suffer to this day. It is simply incredible that the UN looked the ‘other side’ and still unashamed.
Miss Nicole,
Due to the war waged by the LTTE much changes happened in the conflict affected areas. The records were almost thirty years out of date. Only in 2012 was a new census done in all parts of Sri Lanka after 1981. Nobody knew how many people were living in the north until 2012 after 1981. Many tamil people moved south, to the north to Jaffna and overseas due to the war waged by the LTTE in the Vanni area. All the muslim and sinhala people were booted out of the north a long time ago by the LTTE. So nobody knew including the govt how many people actually were in the Vanni area. The records were totally out of date. Add to that the records themselves were altered by the LTTE at the point of the gun and numbers inflated so that the medicines, food and other amenities which were provided by the govt unhindered to the people in the north for over thirty years could be inflated so the LTTE can rob part of these supplies for their own forces and nefarious purposes. All this is well known fact.
About civilians dying during the last stages of the conflict no evidence whatsoever is there which means it did not happen. Yes LTTE combatants and Sri Lankan forces did die in the…
Sri lanka is committing a genocide towards Tamils. Let Tamils govern themselves. Problem solved! Its not a complicated issue. Just let one community (Tamils) govern themselves if the other community (Sinhalese) is trying to destroy and colonize.
Natasha, Sri Lanka is not just ‘tamil’ and ‘sinhala’ as you say. It is sinhala, sri lankan tamil, muslim, malay, indian tamil, burgher, indigenous peoples, catholics and others. So your prescription does not work. Only northern sri lanka tamils less than 12% of the pop. waged war to demand a separate state from all the others. So the others should offer you extra special offers like governing yourself large parts of the island at the expense of over 88% of all the others living in the island. Besides we have a provincial council system of power sharing since 1987 to resolve this issue. So this is what you were asking for and you have got already.
Besides sinhala people have been living in the island for over 2,500 years or more than two and a half millenia and we are not going anywhere. This island is our home. So it is up to you to work alongside us and the rest of sri lankan society by which I mean all the other ethnic and religious groups in the island. May I also remind you that all of us are the overwhelming majority of over 88% of the pop. and you have an obligation to work alongside the rest of the sri lankans rather than demanding unreasonable exclusive extra…
As a Tamil family, we are much better now than when we were under LTTE rule. Under LTTE rule, our kids were taken forcefully, our monies were robbed, food we were given by government were stolen to feed LTTE fighters, medicine given for sick people taken away, and some of relatives were murdered because they were moderate. True we still undergo difficulties, which SL government can do better, but where we live in Vanni, we are clearly doing much better compared to past. Some people may write from comforts of their offices or rooms, it is ok, otherwise they do not get paid. But it is also good to do some things productive economically to help daily struggles of Tamil people if they are really concerned. These media outlets also can galvanize Tamil diaspora to help the less fortunate people in Sri Lanka. We want to live, and we have no agendas like many expats who like to keep the beggars wound open..
Navi Pillay is doing a good job to speak for the stateless power less race in sri lanka. The same applies to C4. Any political leader who massacres his or her own population using the state’s armed forces should be subject to an international independent investigation (III). As for Sri Lanka President Rajapakse and his brother Gothapaya are scared of an III because they will be found guilty of mass murder in 2009. The killers can not be judges and LLRC does not cover military’s excesses in which over 40,000 civilians were murdered. An III will only clear their names. Otherwise UN and other respectful nations including India should bring economic sanctions against Sri Lanka regime.
At last some one is speaking the truth in world arena for Tamils.
For those with short memories, who argue that LTTE has been a brutal terrorist organisation and western countries did nothing then. Conveniently forgot they were banned in almost all of the Western countries.
By the same yard stick then for all the atrocities committed by SL forces; lets ban all who served in the war as terrorists against humanity and ensure none of them or their family members ever set foot in any of the Western countries.
Rajapaksa is determined to destroy Tamil culture.
Several Tamil names of places in Sri Lanka were being replaced with Sinhala ones. Citing examples, he said Aanai-iravu (Elephant Pass), Kilinochchi, Mullaiteevu, Mankulam and Kovil Kudiyiruppu had been given Sinhala names. Temples and dwelling places of Tamils were being destroyed. “Mr. Rajapaksa is out to destroy all that characterised Tamil culture, tradition, literature and language,” the DMK leader said.
“Mr. Rajapaksa says he is creating conditions for peace. Is this the kind of peace he wants to create?”
I thanks chanal4.only you give hope to tamils.my mother is singales father tamils. I can see in srilanka singales very bad politics.I experind a lot.before 1983 ,the recial singala fire not very powerfull.When historic singala anger start to burning towards tamil ,Who is stoping? even UN pouring fuel. banke,number……..mor e and more….their is no place to poore tamils. Why Engelish give back the power to tamils they taken from 1832. in srilanka before this year 2country.
Hiarious! The usual witch hunt against Sri Lanka by Channel 4. You say 20,000 graves of the LTTE? What about the 45,000 (my estimate) of the Sri Lankan forces who had to sacrifice their lives for over thirty years? Yes all these deaths are tragic. You say suffering of the tamil civilians sure but what about the over 40,000 Sinhalese civilians who were ethnically cleansed from the north by the LTTE and the over 100,000 muslim civilians ethnically cleansed from the north in the 90s (all living in tin huts to this day)? What about the suffering of the thousands of tamil, sinhala, muslim civilians massacred by the LTTE over the years? So all have suffered equally.
You say the tamil north. All parts of Sri Lanka are multi ethnic including the east a very mixed province. So should be the north no different to any other part of Sri Lanka. I am sure most tamil people would agree we should live in brotherhood and peace in the future and no to pointless wars and ridiculous pointless disagreements.
What about utterly false propaganda (with no evidence whatsoever) that much civilians perished during the final stages of the war? Total utter rubbish with no evidence whatsoever.
The…
That is why a full accountability by an independent UN body is sorely needed. It is the dismally failed state with its Sinhala Only Buddhism foremost policies and laws with its long recurrent history of race riots that created the Tamil rebels led by the LTTE.
I think singalese people are always and forever will be puppets of rajapakshe family.
Channel 4 has done a great job.
Thank you channel 4 to brings the truths
It is well known that one of the reasons the army is in the North to keep law and order.
SL Army alongside 27 other NGOs and INGOs are doing very good work clearing landmines, to return the displaced to their lands. Clearing landmines is extremely difficult, risky and a painstakingly slow process. However, some residents, politicians and others in SL, – there are opposition politicos in the north now !!- LTTE never had them – are impatient and some are intentionally creating trouble. Also, note that even after more than 7 years since the Katrina hurricane, restoration is still going on in US.
I have noticed during my visits, the Army and other state institutions are doing lots of civil construction of bridges, roads, water supply, electricity and constructing housing for civilians. The LTTE diaspora, instead of grumbling and obstructing these efforts of the Army and the SL gov should help in the process, as it helps the northern citizens. The SL army can very well direct its energy to southern Sri Lanka – where lots poor who also need help live. The SL gov is no doubt hampered by the meager resources it has.
In my view it is commendable that the SL army is working to…
Tamil suffer in the hand on government terrorism for almost 5 decades now. Even the people who did not like felt LTTE as a protecting hands. There were 100s of kids were put on burning tire which was known to even many sinhala people. There were many youngsters killed in front of their loved ones during round ups. Affected Tamils will be able to speak the truth only when they feel completely secured which can never happen under Srilankan Sinhala regime where even elected Tamil parliament representatives live in fear and can’t express their view democratically. Days are counted against Srilankan state sponsored Terrorism.
Initially Sinhala criminal leadership described this mass murder as “zero casualty human rescue operation”. Sri LAnkan defence secreatary was pounding his chest calling it as “zero casualty” in many interviews. Howeve he knew that he was behind this well planned mass murder.When Channel 4 and other human watchdogs proved the mass murder now changing their position and calling deaths were caused by LTTE. So what story we can expect next from Sinhala criminals? No wonder Sri LAnkan government is refused to corporate with any kind of independent investigation despit the fact that they are getting enourous internation pressure. The reason is very obvious. If international community find out the truth, it will not tolerate it. So any one who is having a piece of brain can understand a huge number of killing involved in this Sri Lankan sponsored mass murder and powerful politicians and official are responsible for all these killings.
Please can you show ‘any’ evidence that 30,000 civilians or whatever number you care to pluck out of the air? When making an accusation please show some, any evidence. All evidence or reports suggest only a few hundred deaths of civilians. However many sri lankan forces soldiers leaving behind their family and children sadly (including my relative) and LTTE terrorists did perish during the last stages of the conflict. There were many funerals for sri lankan soldiers at that time in all parts of the country, sadly. In a war combatants die. This is the sad nature of a war. A few hundred civilians did die however sadly but has there been any war in which a few civilians were not affected?
This is nothing but a witchhunt against the sinhala people by channel 4. We are not human and so can be demonised. I think this virulant racism against the sinhala people must stop, I feel channel 4 have some irrational hatred against the sinhala people along with the BBC and would probably want us to become extinct (and working hard towards it too) the way they wish Iran, North Korea, the muslims, communists and the indonesians and the burmese don’t exist judging by their coverage. it is…
Cooked up lies of the channel 4, BBC, John Snow, western anti-Sri Lanka documentaries, Amnesty International, Human rights watch, Salem News, GTF, BTF, Tissaranee Gunasekera, Brian Seneviratana (who was deported recently from Malaysia), so called tamil ‘diaspora’, the LTTE Tamil supporters living in the west and the politicians in the west will never be able to do anything against the sovereign independent Republic of Sri Lanka. For nearly 40 years the ruthless LTTE terrorists killed, maimed and destroyed their own motherland. That IS the real genocide curse that befell Sri Lanka. It is a well known fact that the armed forces and their families will be permanently living in the north and east of Sri Lanka, to prevent other demonic terrorists rising up again. The only independent investigation that needs to be carried out is about the brainless LTTE rump living in the west and Tamil Nadu.
Sri Lanka should allow the UN to operate freely in Sri Lanka, for an investigation into war crimes alleged to have taken place during the country’s civil war. Why the Government afraid of UN investigation ????. The whole world aware who murdered the 17 Aid Workers in 2006. What happened to the case ?????. British tourist murdered in 2011 by government politician. What happened to the case ?????.
You should not shock to hear that LTTE as a tirsorert group because they are tirsorert. I want to say that you are covered with a myth. They are not reprsentatives off tamil people. LTTE is destroying all young life and young tamil generation by doing this war. They force children to join this war(I have practical experiences). All people suffer not because of government but of LLTE. Because of this tirsorert, lost so many valuable tamil and sinhala life. Prebakaran only think about his power. Can you guarante if prebakaran win this he won,t use his wepons to dominate people. At north east more than 300 000 sinhala and muslim people were displaced and their lands are occupied by LTTE. They have killed so many innocent sinhala and muslim people. Onnce near welikanda, LTTE killed all villagers in a sinhal village. They have killed prengant women and a 2 months child not even shooting but using axes(CUTING). More than 10 000 sinhala people have killed by LTTE. They do not want anything else but ruling power of north.(They already lost east) LTTEs first attack was dore appa one great tamil leader. They not only killed sinhala leaders but so many tamil leaders too. They killed any…
Pillar is right.
All we want justice for Tamils. Srilanka government clearly committed war crimes, It was proven by Channel 4.
Well done Channel 4!!!!! Million thanks from voiceless Tamils!!!
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I am least bothered about LTTE I do not agree with the terrorism they have spreaded in the past. But, are you saying that the government and it’s Sri Lankan Army has not committed any human rights violation in the war that ended the conflict. It really hurts when those who have committed war crimes against humanity go unpunished. Today hopes have been shattered.