KP’s arrest is against international law – Amnesty International
Commenting on the arrest of LTTE leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, in Malaysia, Amnesty International’s Asia Pacific Director Sam Zarifi told media that if any country arrests LTTE members the detainee should face charges in the country that they had been arrested.
Human rights activists have accused Malaysia of violating international law by handing over new leader of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to Sri Lanka. He was commenting on the recent arrest of new LTTE leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan in Malaysia, according to media reports. “International law prohibits sending someone, including a criminal suspect, back to a country where they face real possibility of torture and ill-treatment and Sri Lanka does have a poor track record of torturing and poorly treating detainees,” Mr. Zarifi said.
“So there are some real questions about how KP was taken to Sri Lanka.” Malaysian authorities, however, have neither confirmed nor denied reports that he was arrested in the country. “We want to see proper justice with proper due process for KP, for any of the LTTE members detained, he told media.
Meanwhile, the UK based British Tamils Forum (BTF) have urged Sri Lankan authorities to immediately produce Mr. Pathmanathan in a court of law. “Mr Pathmanathan must be given access to legal representation according to international laws,” the BTF statement issued yesterday.
legitimate goverments should never answer the questions by organizations that support terrorists in many different ways.who are these people to question two goverments and their relations and their fight against terrorism.
When did AI represent criminals ? Mr. Zarifi , are you for real ?
IF USA ARRESTED OSAMA AT NEXT DOOR OF THIS SARIFI WILL HE TALK ANY THING AGAINST USA ? BULLSHIT ! AND WHATS THE ACTION SARIFI TAKEN IRAQ AND AFGAN KILLINGS !
It has been reported that if Amnesty International idiots go to the moon and say sun goat is dead 1000 times sri lankan govt will release KP terrorist.
BTF fools also can keep shouting. Government of sri lanka only answerebale to sri lankan people. BTF coolies need to continue to wash toilets dreaming of peelam in London
And what law may that be? Is it the law that protects hooligans and gun-runners? Come on this man sent a ship laden with arms to be used against a democratically elected government! It looks more like AI top officials are now ‘wawagena kanawa’ (fabricating survival fodder for themselves), to use a popular native term.
KP is a criminal. He has blood of innocent people on his hand. LTTE did not care about human rights or due processes when they had innocent Tamils in their custody. They tortured them ruthlessly and murder them subsequently in cold blood. LTTE slit the neck of their tortured victims and let them bleed to death in broad daylight in public so that no one will dare to talk against the LTTE.
I know this for a fact because this was my own cousin’s fate. So do you think KP should be spared? Shouldn’t he feel the agony of those innocent victims? Where was amnesty international when LTTE was committing such horrendous crimes against innocent people???.
KP should be hang by his balls for his involvement in terrorism. Well Done Sri Lanka and its intelligent officers keep up you good work see the rest of the LTTE perish forever
Many Tamils are asking the same questions.
where was everybody when our parents,grandparents sisters.brothers homes and temples churches,schools,library were===
raped,srtangled,hacked with a crowe bars,knives,looted,burnt,shot at gun point,bombed,nails and eyes pulled out from 1058 to date by the singhala crowd who called themselves the law,the governement,our singhala brothers and sisters.
wake up.,enough in enough.We the Tamils still have ‘living witnesses from 1950′s to date.
So take a hike and leave the Tamils to decide and live their own lives away from all hatred.
Sri Lanka’s people are so innocent and so clean that now they have sulled their hands with a criminal who has been brought to our balmy beautifull land.
Guess what -Underworld criminals (UWC) are being shot by the police by order of the GOSL while the
Over Land Criminals (OLC) are smoothly sailing in limos,helicopters,wining and dining and pocketing donor
monies.
First try the OLC in courts and clean our shores.
But where are the courts?
,One of the worst human rights violator in recent history is Sri Lanka pensioner, President Rajapussy. Instead of bouncing one or two grand children on his knees, he is busy dispatching death squads all over the world. Recently the unfortunate victim of racists Sri Lanka Government was Selvarasa Pathmanathan who was kidnapped from Malaysia. The next destination is India. Their abuse and impunity will march with triumphal Nazi –like superiority all over the world. So BEWARE!!! Anyone who even thinks about the Hindu minority human rights, the bloodthirsty Sri Lanka Army of Hindy baby-killers will pay you a visit
It seems corruption (widespread among malaysian “officials”), murder (sri lanka just killed tens of thousands of tamils), torture (hundreds of thousands of tamils are still detained in camps subject to torture and rape) should be the way of life according to asian sovereign nations such as Sri Lanka and China.
Why this human rights peoples not protesting all the arms KP sent to kill innocents. I am seeing very much double standards. Please report truth
To Rajes Rajah -fantastic posts!!! With people like you the truth will prevail!!! We shall OVERCOME!!! Selvarasa Pathmanathan, was leading the PTGTE in the political/diplomatic fronts to seek freedom for Tamil minority in Sri Lanka, until his illegal abduction and extraordinary rendition from Malaysia on august 5. Although the war is over, the Tamils are yet to get rid of their plights. The ground realities do not show that the Racists Sri Lankan government of President Rajapussy is making any pragmatic effort to offer autonomy for the minority Tamils, rather it is rejecting Tamils’ genuine demands and further is trying to colonize Tamil homeland with Sinhalese. Instead of accepting Tamils’ legitimate demands for the sake of lasting peace, the Sinha -racists are engaged in how it can make Tamils more subservient to them. The bloodthirsty Sri Lanka Army of baby-killers butchered more than 20,000 Hindu Tamils on Mother Day Massacre during the final phase of the war in Vanni. Further, they are now holding more than 300,000 innocent Tamil civilians in Guantanamo-like militarized internment camps with access denied to NGOs, INGOs, local MPs and media.
“The way I operated 25 years under cover, I never thought that I will be caught. But I was. During the final stages of the battle in the north of Sri Lanka, Prabhakaran wanted me to approach the international community on behalf of the LTTE leadership to force the Sri Lankan government to agree to a ceasefire. Therefore V. Prabhakaran has appointed me International Relations Head. I was able to persuade Norway’s Minister for International Affairs (Erik Solheim) to approach the USA to exert pressure on the Sri Lankan government to stop the military operations. Prabhakaran had told me that if the war continued, it would be the end of the LTTE as the Sri Lankan military was stronger than they had anticipated and the Tigers were getting weaker. He further stated that the tactics of the military adopted by General Fonseka is the end of LTTE. I had spoken with Vija Nambiar, Chief of Staff of UN Secretary General as well as Western diplomats and some VVIPs”
– Kumaran Pathmanathan had told the intelligence sleuths interrogating him in Colombo adding that Prabakaran had instructed to use any amount of LTTE funds to stop the war.
http://www.tamilnewsweb.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1250028186&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&
The Sri Lanka, as “supremely buddhist nation” and let’s capture its’ ethno-religious-political landscape. A history of cohabitation of Sinhalese with the minority Hindu Tamil, Muslim Christians and other in Sri Lanka marred by suspicions, tensions and bloodletting. The unquestioning support of the clergy and devotees for the new ‘king’ Mahinda Rajapussy of the Sinhala-Buddhist race is similar to Hitler in Nazi Germany. Buddhism is the most peaceful religion where the teachings condone loving kindness and cohabitation with all living beings. However in actuality Sri Lanka Buddhist is ruthlessly oppressing the Tamil minority with complete disregard to their human rights. These apparent contradictions between religion and practice are accepted and no one speaks or comments on these happenings,
Piece issued by GOSL media
and not free media.
allow free media into the interrogation areana.
In Sri Lanka, most of the Buddhists do not practice Buddhism..! They practice Anti-Buddhism instead..They follow what the priests say, not what Lord Buddha said…a sad situation altogether.
Gadin and Rajes Raja – 2 of you are in no position to make demands to anyone leave alone the sri lankan govt. Gadin you seem to forget it is the LTTE that are regarded as terrorists and banned throughout the world and not the sri lankan government. You can write all you want but the sri lankan government will not be hurried by a few idiots. There is a systematic plan to resettle people. The 20,000 deaths you are referring to are all the innocent people killed by Prabhakaran (remember the fat coward that died like a rat in a swamp)
To Gadin.
My thanks to you for the kind words.
Indeed we as Tamils must go on with the TRUTH.
We do not fabricate stories nor lies.
we will OVERCOME .
Our grandparents and parents,siblings and our families
have gone through these trecherous singhala attrocities.
Soon the singhala society has to pay dearly for all the sins they
have and continue to commit on the Tamils.
If the Tamil souls who have given up their lives for this sacred
cause of the Tamils must rest in PEACE then we Tamils
who are alive must see that Justice will be meted out soon.
They singhala racists say one thing quoting the budha sasana
and with their hearts they deliberately kill torture,rape and plunder.
It wil stop soon.Ill winds have started blowing.
To Gadin.
My thanks to you for the kind words.
Indeed we as Tamils must go on with the TRUTH.
We do not fabricate stories nor lies.
we will OVERCOME .
Our grandparents and parents,siblings and our families
have gone through these trecherous singhala attrocities.
Soon the singhala society has to pay dearly for all the sins they
have and continue to commit on the Tamils.
If the Tamil souls who have given up their lives for this sacred
cause of the Tamils must rest in PEACE then we Tamils
who are alive must see that Justice will be meted out soon.
They singhala racists say one thing quoting the budha sasana
and with their hearts they deliberately kill torture,rape and plunder.
It wil stop soon.Ill winds have started blowing.
What would happen, if Gota and Sarath kidnapped by CIA to America for War Crimes and State Terrorism?