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;
"Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka
- More than 130,000 Tamil men, women and children estimated Killed or Disappeared
- More that 30,000 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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