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 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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Sri Lanka declared "war over" on May 18 2009.

In the last 100 days leading upto May, already more than 12,000 Tamil lives had been lost and more than 20,000 wounded - including THOUSANDS of children.

However, what happened between May 16th - May 18th remains a frightening mystery. Tamil sources place the number of Tamil civilians killed in the year 2009 at MORE THAN 30,000.

In the "safe zone", initially more than 350,000 lived in unimaginable conditions with severe shortage of food, without essential medicines and medical facilities, basic shelter, proper drinking water, sanitation facilities, no electricity and daily shell attacks and bombardments.

Sri Lanka (along with India) claimed that there were only 70,000 people in the "safe zone", thus justifying its use of food and medicine as weapons of war. Later, Sri Lankan Authorities contradicted themselves when claiming they had "rescued" more than 300,000 IDPs from the "safe zone".

The entire IDP population was herded into barbed wire fenced military operated internment camps. They were not allowed to go back to their villages. The name registration and care of these civilians were not transparent to ICRC or civil officials. Families were seperated. Children as young as 12 were taken to different locations.