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Killing Spree in Sri Lanka!547 Killed! 396 Disappeared with Impunity in Six Months This Year

Sri Lanka: Killing Spree in Sri Lanka!547 Killed! 396 Disappeared with Impunity in Six Months This Year

Monday, 27 August 2007

Killing Spree in Sri Lanka! 547 Killed! 396 Disappeared with Impunity in Six Months This Year! 70.7% Victims - Tamils! First in a series of submissions to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry and public on human rights violations in Sri Lanka - Submitted by Civil Monitoring Commission; ii. Free Media Movement; and iii. Law & Society Trust. Abandoned by the international community, the Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka are paying supreme sacrifice, a price for law-abiding and remaining civil, instead of joining forces with the Freedom Struggle Movement in their land. On the contrary, the international community is continuing to replenish the State arsenal, indirectly encouraging the state armed forces as well as the paramilitaries to spur on with a reign of terror in the Tamil areas. The Tamils in the North-East kept away from the last Presidential Election, allowing for a Sinhala consensus to choose a leader capable of bringing an amicable and permanent solution to the escalating bloody war. However, the chosen leader has turned out to be a more venomous populist than anyone before him. His ever-swelling list of summary executions and murders exceeding 5000 in one year and more than 3000 abductions, rapes, torture and decapitation in the Tamil areas and in the capital, all with impunity, though earn for him a place in the docks at The Hague, the man roams the world with State reception-welcomes and a prestigious podium at the special session of the UN Assembly. In the case of any UN high official visiting the affected areas in the country, the usual pattern has been for the human in him to immediately express shock and condemnation of the State at its perpetration of atrocity, but for the official in him to finally compromise in issuing a mellowed-down and lackluster statement. This would spare him from a lashing out from the ministers of state as well as the nationalist Sinhala press. This would also spare him from the wrath of some international godfather taking care of Sri Lanka’s ruling polity. Recent visits of Alan Rock and Holmes provide solid evidence.

It is in such a safe environ for President Rajapakse that the first in a series of submissions to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry and Public on human rights violations in Sri Lanka has been submitted jointly by i. Civil Monitoring Commission; ii. Free Media Movement; and iii. Law & Society Trust.

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