Click to Fax campaign - Urge US Policy Makers to heed new evidence of War Crimes in Sri Lanka

Dear President Obama,

Evidence of war crimes and extrajudicial killings in Sri Lanka has emerged with the disturbing video evidence of members of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces executing Tamil men, released by Channel 4 news, UK

http://www.channel4.com:80/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/is+this+evid...

The footage was leaked to British media Channel 4 by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, an action group of journalists, writers and human rights defenders in exile who are campaigning for democracy, human rights and media freedom in Sri Lanka

The footage shows men stripped naked, hands bound and eyes blindfolded being shot execution style by members of the Sri Lankan military. The executioners speak in Sinhala, the language of the island's majority and ruling government. One army officer compares the taking of turns at shooting the Tamil men to "buru", the Sinhala name for a card game.

The footage released last night shows what the Tamil community along with human rights campaigners have long alleged: that the Sri Lankan military has been engaging in crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Tamil civilians.

Human rights campaigners have long been calling for war crimes investigations against the Sri Lankan government. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has repeatedly called for an international independent investigation into such violations. However, Sri Lanka has blatantly opposed such an idea and continues to enjoy impunity. 15 weeks since the war was declared over, Sri Lanka still continues to hold nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians in barbed wire fenced, heavily militarised concentration camps.

I urge the US government to heed these convincing signs of blatant human rights violations by Sri Lankan State and to take appropriate action.

Your sincerely,