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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Mavai Senathirajah has written a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to intervene for protecting Tamils from Sri Lankan government’s brutality.
Senathirajah told Arbour that she has got first-hand experience during her five-day stay in Sri Lanka that Colombo is unleashing gross abuses of human rights and violating law.
He referred to her statement made during her stay in Sri Lanka that she could not do anything although thousands of people were abducted, disappeared and killed because government’s opposition to setting up of a UN monitoring office in Sri Lanka to help improve the rights situation.
The TNA MP said Tamils are thanking her for the effort to set up the office but it is regrettable that the Sri Lankan government refused to cooperate with the UN.
Senathirajah in the letter further said that the attack on Anuradhapura air base of Sri Lanka has made the government anger and the government is now taking revenge against Tamils.
In this regard he referred to the incident of killing three innocents including 8-month pregnant girl in the artillery attack by the Sri Lankan armed forces in Mannar.
Also, the Sri Lankan air force Kfir and supersonic jets are dropping bombs on Tamil areas after the attack on Anuradhapura base and the armed forces are targeting innocent civilians while the LTTE targeted military installations.
He said he wanted to point out what happened to the dead bodies of the 21 Black Tigers.
The TNA MP described to Arbour that the actions of the Sri Lankan security forces in regard to the 21 dead bodies terrible because armed forces stripped the clothes of the dead and put the naked bodies on display for people who took photos of the naked bodies. Female black Tiger bodies were among the male dead bodies which was clear violation of the UN Geneva convention.
He said all these clear example that the Sri Lankan government is preferring military means to peaceful talks and the government is taking preparation for all out war against the Tamils.
Senathirajah told Arbour that if the government launches military attacks thousands of people will be killed while hundreds of thousands of people will become refugees.
He urged Arbour to use her good offices to take the grievances of Tamils to the attention of UN senior officials including United Nations Secretary General in order to stop further bloodshed, and to stop the rights abuses in the island.
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