Sri Lankan State Terrorism: Tamil young womans in refugee camps asking to stay with Sri Lankan Army for to make them happy in S*x
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in refugee camps in the island nation were torn asunder and young women were forced to stay with strange men in make-shift tents. This is what the former Attorney General and Solicitor General of Sri Lanka Chitta Ranjan de Silva had told Lankan media, according to Nimalka Fernando, human rights activist and a lawyer from the island nation, on Thursday.
The Urgency of Bearing Witness
First they were captives of a conflict in which their freedom and security was thwarted at every turn. Now huge numbers of the Tamil population of Sri Lanka find themselves trapped again, unseen for the most part and wholly unprotected.
The conflict may officially be over, but the battle to reach the victims is not. Aid agencies, the media and even the Red Cross have all been denied access to the military-run camps where an estimated 300,000 civilians are languishing in dangerously impoverished, hostile conditions.
End of conflict brings no respite to children from human rights abuses
Despite the end of hostilities, children in Sri Lanka continue to be at risk of forced recruitment, arbitrary detention and other human rights abuses, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (Coalition) said today. In a new briefing to the Security Council Working Group (Working Group) on Children and Armed Conflict, the Coalition urged the Sri Lankan authorities to act immediately to protect conflict-affected children.
Sri Lankan army ‘colonising’ Tamil lands
Sri Lanka’s Army Commander General Foneska’s statement on recruiting 100,000 new recruits has raised fears, in the minds of Sri Lankan Tamil Observer groups, of systematic colonisation of the Tamil lands in the North and the East by the Sinhala army. This fear is becoming a pre-occupation with these observers, as they mull over the issue of peaceful settlement of Tamil issue.
With fresh reports emerging calls grow in support of war crime probe
Any government could defeat terrorism if it ignored the 1949 Geneva convention that aims to protect civilians; Washington officials in the Justice Department considering to seek criminal charges against Gotabaya Rajapaksa; clear signs of heavy artillery shelling, no-fire zones were not spared; concern growing for the displaced people, Emily Wax reports in Washington Post.
Emily Wax writing on Washington Post says that there were clear signs of heavy artillery shelling on the strip of beach where tens of thousands of civilians huddled during the conflict between Sri Lankan government forces Tamil rebels.
UN chief knew Tamil civilian toll had reached 20,000; The Times says it can reveal
The United Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes disputed a report appeared in ‘The Times’ newspaper of London that cited a “UN source” to support an estimate that at least 20,000 people were killed during the months-long final siege.
“That figure has no status as far as we’re concerned,” Holmes said. “It may be right, it may be wrong, it may be far too high, it may even be too low. But we honestly don’t know, he said.
Vanni civilians held back in Ki’linochchi in thousands
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) continues to detain thousands of civilians in its internment camps in Kilinochchi without sending them on to the camps in Vavuniyaa, sources in Vavuniyaa said.
SLA, in its final assault on Mu’l’livaaikkaal, has herded thousands of persons including non-combatants who had been working in the political and judicial wings of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in vast overcrowded camps which lack basic facilities, the sources added.
