New Delhi Conference about srilanka war crime

Esteemed guests and dear friends We have come together to open up a discussion on the Unspoken Genocide in SriLanka. First I would like to thank the organizers for opening up such a discussion for the first time in the country. They have put forth great effort to break the silence of this country on SriLankan ethnic crisis and the worst Genocide of our times. This effort by the student community raises question on our responsibilities. They have made the first move. We are to follow. It is indeed high time to break our silence and the silence of the country and discuss, decide and act upon the issue.

The Permanent Peoples Tribunal on SriLanka held at Dublin has come with a report which clearly states that the SriLankan Government has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in its bloody war against the Tamils of the country.

Friends, how does that concern us? Or rather, I would ask, how is it more concerned to us, than the war crimes committed by the US in Afghanistan and Iraq?

There are two important reasons. One, it is concerned to us, because what SriLanka has done to the Tamils there, is what India may do to suppress the nationalistic and socialistic struggles in India.

SriLanka has presented a model genocide a model which has successfully massacred hundreds of thousands of civilians without any witness. A war without witness is what SriLanka has presented before the world as a model. This model has now given strength to the rest of the oppressing governments of the world and shown ways of how to oppress in a more brutal way without having to worry about international or national criticisms. This model can very well be executed by India in Kashmir or the Punjab or the North East or in the Red corridor. Name it War against terror or War for peace and execute anything brutal. Nobody will question you.

I say this because, SriLanka did not invade any other country or people. It launched the brutal attack on its own civilians its own citizens, in the name of war for peace. Yes peace in the form of graveyard. A clear act of Genocide.

United Nations defines Genocide as the The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.

Genocide does not only mean killing. And the SriLankan Government did not only take the lives away. The Genocide against the Tamils in SriLanka did not start very recently. It has been systematically implemented in various forms from time to time. It is that systematic implementation which reached its peak in 2009.

When dealing with war crimes, the international community is focusing only on a few of the issues, especially at the end of Eelam War 4, at Mullivaaykkaal in May 2009.

But, there have been an ongoing record of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, for a long time in the island of Sri Lanka and the pattern of this long record has to be analysed by anyone investigating the War Crimes.

My view is that the War Crimes, carried out by the Sri Lankan military with direct and indirect help from various actors of the international community, are part of a systematic programme and should also be investigated for the context of the patterns rather than singled-out events.

It is also equally important to understand that a systematic and prolonged genocide doesnt take place without a deep mythology behind it.
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[rayleno222]

The useless veeramani dhould give the way to kulathoor mani so that the now dormant DK could be put to better use. Thank you kulathoor mani for your relentless effort on the Eelam tamil's struggle.