Sinhala “lebensraum” in progress in Vanni, warns Prof.Boyle
“The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is continuing to inflict Nazi-type crimes and atrocities against the Tamils even after their alleged excuse of fighting a “war against terrorism” has been exposed as a bogus pretext to annihilate the Tamils and to steal their lands and natural resources.
This is what Hitler and the Nazis called “lebensraum”–”living space” for the Sinhala at the expense of the Tamils. The GOSL’s “ethnic cleansing” of the Tamil Homeland for the benefit of the Sinhala is now underway,” warns Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law.
“With the UN already under fire for withholding and downplaying the number of civilian casualties in Sri Lanka, another ongoing controversy has opened up concerning the number of internally displaced persons detained in the IDP camps in northern Sri Lanka. Between the May 27 and May 30 reports of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, over 13,000 IDPs simply disappeared from the camps,” reported Inner City Press which is covering the affairs at the United Nations in New York.
“Concerning these missing 13,130+ genocide-survivors from the Safety Zone, Article 7(1)(i) of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court provides that the “enforced disappearance of persons” is a Crime Against Humanity “when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack,” Boyle said.
Clearly the GOSL’s enforced disappearances of these Tamils and other Tamils in the past has been both “widespread” and “systematic” as documented over the years by numerous human rights NGOs. The GOSL’s widespread and systematic enforced disappearances of Tamils over the years constitutes a Crime Against Humanity, Boyle added.
“According to the Nuremberg Charter (1945), the Nuremberg Judgment (1946) and the Nuremberg Principles (1950), the paradigmatic example of a Crime Against Humanity is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews.
“Historically, this Nuremberg Crime Against Humanity was the legal precursor to the International Crime of Genocide as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention,” Boyle said.
Lebensraum served as a major motivation for Nazi Germany’s territorial aggression. Adolf Hitler believed that the German people needed Lebensraum – for a Großdeutschland, land, and raw materials – and that it should be taken in the East. It was the stated policy of the Nazis to kill, deport, Germanize or enslave the Polish, and later also Russian and other Slavic populations, and to repopulate the land with reinrassig (racially pure) Germanic peoples.
Sri Lanka Government’ Nazi-type crimes in the Vanni appear motivated by the doctrine of lebenstraum, and the future survival of Tamil culture in Sri Lanka is in peril, says Prof. Boyle.
Thank you for speaking the truth, Mr. Boyle.
Professor Boyle is in his dotage. The so called eminent professor of buffoonery has been misled by the diaspora and now is ranting away to his hearts content although no one gives a sh*t
I wonder how much he is being paid by the diaspora?
In sandeep guptas’ words you see how the singhala mind works.well this is not going to erase history.
Lack of knowlede on historical events and lives in a coocoon.we correct ourselves with lessons learnt from past misdeeds where other lives are shattered due to ones own treachery.
historical events chronicled show us regimes such as HITLERS have caused untold misery to people and countires.
Always it is about money – something that the singhalese know best because all they get is from monies paid out to buy singhalese living in srilanka to do the dirty work example white van thuggery,singhalese abroad to dish out lies and create thuggery amongst peacefull Tamils protests and rallies.
Inshort sri Lanka pays individuals to buy patriotism,information and even to fight for ones own country.
Rajes Rajah – Its understandable that you are in deep anguish after the elimination of the LTTE terrorists by the Sri lankan state however it is wrong to assume that ayone that has an opposing viewpoint is a sinhalese. You have automatically assumed I am a sinhalese because I oppose the LTTE terrorists and fully support the legitimate government of sri lanka’s efforts to eliminate terrorism. You are dead WRONG!!
You also allude to thuggery by sri lankans abroad. That is the most ludicrous statement I have heard in some time. It is the Sinhalese that have been under attack. How can a handful of Sinhalese resort to thuggery against the hundreds of thousands of tamils outside of sri lanka. It is well known that LTTE agents extort millions of pounds worldwide from the tamil diaspora.
So Rajes live in your fairy tale world. There is a reason why the entire world banned the LTTE terrorists.
Indian Govt has been a mute spectator to this mindless violence committed by the SINHALESE in power. They turned smarter by ganging up the Chinese, Pakistanis and Indian’s too through covert diplomacy.
The GENOCIDE Committed by Indians along with the Sinhala Govt has got the UN on the backfoot…
Sandeep Gupta.
You are dead wrong about your assesment.With your name you certainly cannot be a singhalese.!!!Further,some people write under a ‘pen name’.So you still could be a singhalese.you can be any other than a singhalese support the sri Lankan government,be against the LTTE and ofcourse be entitled to your own opinion.
Our anguish is for our innocent Tamils civilians who have been mercilessly slaughtered by aerial bombings after having asked to come into the ‘no fire zone’.is this a legitimately elected democratic government?
We Tamils are even more strongly committed now tthan ever before to attain our goals and aspirations.India got its Independence through tears,blood and loss of life.we were given this on a platter.
We Tamils cherished our land which was Sri Lanka.After having meted out repeatedly with torture and hatred
we want none of it any more pal.good luck to them.
The government claims they have defeated the LTTE and wiped out terrorism.why the insecurity and fear now.Let them get on with their work looking after the IDP’s.
But no- More road blocks,another month of a state of emergency passed in parlaiment,extended from 1983.
white vans abductions,rape and throat slashing in the concentration style camps.bribery and corruptions.
My fairy tale world trusting the sri Lanka governments was shattered a few times when Tamils ran for their life and ended up in refugee camps returning to burnt out shells of their homes -before the LTTE was born.The attacks ochestrated by succesive governments backed by budhist priests.
So don’t tell me about duly elected governments.
Sri Lanka has different ethnic groups.
A good democratic government has to abide by the rule of law.a democratic system is when all ethnic groups within the frame work of democracy live as equal ctizens.If rules are created to undermine or differentiate the majority from other minorities in that country then the rule of law has been violated and the country has become a failed state.
You can now see why this beautifull country continually has had problems even with its own people.
The Singhala youth in the mid 70′s rose against the government when 80.000 youth were massacred under emergency act.There was a ‘class difference’ ..Indeed the word terrorism was not a fashionable word then
During this time there was no LTTE.
No thuggery in the intl world? you are in a dream world if you hadn’t heard that one pal.You should actually see it and experience it to know and talk about it.
If 9/11 did not happen this government will still be ‘negotiating’.!!!
The Tamils diaspora understands exactly the need of the hour and support fully the aspirations of the Tamils.
They will work to legitimately find peace and justice.