Karen Parker on Tamil Self-Determination: PART 1

Ms. Parker is a San Francisco based attorney who practices human rights and humanitarian law full time. She is responsible, in part, for the evolution of international law in such areas as economic sanctions, weaponry, environment as a human right, and the rights of the disabled. he also consults and serves as an expert witness in legal disputes involving the application of armed conflict law. In 1982, she founded the Association of Humanitarian Lawyers (originally incorporated as International Disability Law), and has served as its president for over ten years. She has also represented or served as a consulting attorney for Disabled Peoples International, Human Rights Advocates, and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.

Today, she testifies regularly at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva and its Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. She is a recognized expert on the application of humanitarian law with regard to Depleted Uranium (DU), and more recently has brought a lawsuit against the United States on behalf of victims of Iraqi medical facilities bombed by U.S. forces. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has accepted this case.

Her legal arguments on a variety of issues and conflicts are regularly cited by U.N. officials in their reports and included in the final drafts of resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights. In 2000, she worked closely with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Sanctions in developing a six-prong test to determine if a trade embargo and other economic sanctions violate human rights and humanitarian law, and on the report as a whole. She has also worked closely with U.N. officials appointed to report to the commission on disability, the environment, terrorism, toxic dumping and weaponry, and the human rights situation in specific countries.

In this particular speech, Ms Karen Parker talks about international law and the Tamil self-determination struggle. She distinguishes terrorism from a national liberation struggle.

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[SriLankanHeero]

I am also a Sinhala ... But ..... We sinhalas are bastards :(

[300662327]

nice speech!

[ranjistudent]

yeah i met her face to face she is like a baby. she is cut when she interact with people.

[ranjistudent]

yeah keep your fukin mythological buddist racist history away. archealogicially its proven tamils are indigenous people from sri lanka.

[SriLankanHeero]

I want u to fuck ur own mother to prove that u are a Sinhala... If u dont then u are a Tamil...

[kevim3]

wats ur point?

[SriLankaCanada]

What does this old bitch know about Sri Lankan history??? Does this bitch know that Sri Lanka was a united counry many centurys ago??? Why can't this bitch talk about self determination for native Indians in U.S.???

[AwarenessRaiser]

You Sinhala fucks, you better shut your holes and get one thing into your brainless heads, you fucks have no idea how it feels like to be thrown away from your homelands. If you do? Then we ll see if you could write shit to other people.

[AwarenessRaiser]

The self-determination of the Tamils is a must and the Tamil people should do everything in their power to bring it to the awareness of the international community.

[breezyarien]

Its hard to digest the reality for those chauvinistic people when they really came to know there are few foreigners tending their support to cause of tamils. Talking about sovereignity but i fear where is ur real sovereignity lies. No tamil can become president r executive of state but u want them always under the buddhist monk r sinhala..wot a real sovereign nation

[breezyarien]

Why u got itching in ur ass wen someone talks about self-determination of tamils.. dont ever think u can always suppress them once for all.