INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka's Genocidal War against Tamil Eelam
...after Abrogation of Ceasefire
The Record Speaks... 2008
 

On 2 January 2008, the Sri Lanka Government gave notice of its unilateral abrogation of the Cease Fire Agreement that it had entered into with  the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in February 2002. Accordingly, the Cease Fire Agreement ended two weeks later on 16 January 2008. Together with the unilateral abrogation of the Peace Agreement, Sri Lanka intensified its genocidal attack on the people of Tamil Eelam. The Record Speaks...

"During our visit, we realized that people in Mannar, the residents as well as the displaced, live in fear and with a feeling of hopelessness. Catholic clergy and religious we met on the eve of our departure re-affirmed this, acknowledging that in the context of Mannar, a priority in their ministry is to give people hope, and they seek to do this by various interventions that give witness to the truth regarding the plight of the people and coming forward to assisting and protecting victims, survivors and family members of human rights violations, often at great risk to themselves. Clearly, there is a total lack of confidence of ordinary people, church leaders and civil society and even senior government civil officials about possible redress mechanisms available to the public. We also saw clearly that the civil administration in Mannar exits only in paper and name, and that key decision that affect civilian life is taken by the security forces, side lining and not even consulting the civil administration, leave alone civil society and ordinary people. It appeared that Mannar is a defacto military junta. The considerations for decisions that affect civilian life are based on military and political priorities, with minimal or no consideration of humanitarian needs. Sri Lanka's international human rights commitments and even the fundamental rights guaranteed to citizens also clearly have no place in Mannar"

"..We call ourselves Christians. We proclaim that we follow Jesus who lived and died for the oppressed. Isn’t it a crime for us to call ourselves Christians and to live as deaf and blind people amidst our oppressed Tamil brothers and sisters who cry for freedom to live in peace in their own land and homes? You may not agree with me but I would say this is a wiping out or slow genocide of the Tamil people from their own land..."

" For more than one and a half years now, this (Jaffna)  peninsula has been cut off from the rest of the island, after the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) closed the only land route through the narrow strip of land, thus isolating its more than 400,000 residents. This one and half year history of isolation adds to the already unique history of this peninsula in a spectacularly terrifying manner. People have been "marked, stalked and hunted for pleasure" in this period ... The other aspects of this one and half year history are what ought to be studied, for it gives not only staggering lessons on how to "manufacture consent," it also exemplifies how the world can turn a blind eye to such staggering "consent manufacturing.""

Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the gruesome, terrorist attack by a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) on a civilian bus travelling to Paalampiddi from Madhu at 2:25 on 29 November 2008. The attack killed 20 people, 11 of whom school children, and injured 14, eight of whom were children.