Genocide in Sri Lanka - Act Now!
1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) – Article 2 defines Genocide as following;
- More than 135,000 Tamil men, women and children estimated Killed or Disappeared
- More that 35,000 Tamils estimated killed in the year 2009 alone
- 1.1 Million Tamils made to flee the country
- More than 600,000 Tamil Internal Refugees (Internally Displaced or Evicted)
- More than 20,000 Tamil orphaned children
- More than 35,000 Tamil widows
- Thousands of families (including infants) kept behind barbed wire fenced internment camps operated by Sri Lankan Military, for several months in aftermath of the war.
- Half a million Tamils kept under military rule in Jaffna peninsula (Northern Sri Lanka) that had been described as an "open prison".
- Thousands in custody – detention without trial, other widespread abuses
- Economic embargo imposed on traditional Tamil areas for more than 2 decades
- Supply of food, medicine, fuel, electricity and other essential items controlled by the Military
- Forced Starvation
- Usage of banned weapons - Cluster bombs, White phosporous. Usage of heavy weapons, artillery on densely populated civilian areas. Reported usage of chemical weapons.
- Mass Graves and systematic violations of fundamental human rights remain uninvestigated
- No International Media allowed into conflict areas
- State sponsored pogroms
- Systematic destruction of Infrastructure
- Indiscriminate and wanton air attacks on traditional Tamil areas for more than 2 decades.
- Hundreds of thousands of livelyhoods and schools, hospitals, libraries, temples, churches, houses, villages destroyed
In 2009, atrocities carried out against Tamil civilians had reached unprecedented levels. According to eye witness accounts, thousands were massacred in the final war between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and the LTTE.
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Email campaign - Appeal to the Australian Govt to call for an independent international investigation in Sri Lanka
Dear Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Attorney-General,
As proud Australians, who are governed by the rule of Law, we are deeply disturbed by the reports of the alleged Human Rights abuses committed on civilians, during the final days of the civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009.
In light of current media reports about the recent appointment of the High Commissioner for Sri Lanka, Retired Naval Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe , the question arises if the Australian Government had any prior knowledge of the alleged war crimes and whether any investigation was undertaken of his role in a command and control capacity before the nomination was approved.