LTTE respected our courts; even they did not fire a single shot at our courts” – CJ Sarath N Silva
Chief Justice of Sri Lanka Sarath Nanda Silva highly appreciated the LTTE leadership saying the Tamil Tigers respected the orders delivered by Sri Lankan courts. He said that although the Tamil Tigers had own courts in Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu, they had respected Sri Lanka’s courts.
Tamil Nation working under a common and united policy is the need of the moment – Selvarasa Pathmanathan
”We need to think of everything related to our nation and our people from today’s pragmatic position. This is the correct and honest position, said S. Pathmanathan, (KP) LTTE’s Head of International Relations.
In his statement today he said that there are many urgent issues that confront the Tamil civilians and cadres who are held in detention camps of the Sri Lankan Government.
Last hours in the battle front; what’s next, explains Pathmanathan
LTTE’s Head of International Relations explained in an interview Tuesday to a Australian Tamil Media about what happened at the last hours of Tamil genocide in the battle front in the Tamil land. He also spoke about the urgent responsibilities that lie ahead of the World Tamils.
LTTE’s political wing was in touch with S. Pathmanathan, LTTE’s Head of International Relations until the last moment they were slaughtered by Sri Lankan Army on May 17.
Tamils will never get a justice from Sri Lankan government
“Vanni IDPs sheltered in transit centres in Cheddiku’lam cannot expect justice under the Sri Lanka’s law. Law of the country does not show any interest on these IDPs. I openly say this. The authorities can penalize me for telling this,” said Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva when he addressed a public meeting which followed the ceremonial opening of a court complex at Marawila in Negombo district Tuesday. These transit centres are described as internment camps by human rights activists.
Sinhala “lebensraum” in progress in Vanni, warns Prof.Boyle
“The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is continuing to inflict Nazi-type crimes and atrocities against the Tamils even after their alleged excuse of fighting a “war against terrorism” has been exposed as a bogus pretext to annihilate the Tamils and to steal their lands and natural resources.
13,000 IDPs missing from Sri Lanka camps – UN reports
Quoting reports of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Inner City Press today (Tuesday) reported that last week over 13,000 internally displaced people have disappeared from Sri Lanka’s internment camps for Tamil civilians.
UN counted 289,915 Tamils in Detention Camps , UNHCR & ICRC refuse to help locating / tracing relatives
As at 26th May 2009, UN local office in Sri Lanka has counted 289,915 Tamils ( excluding Sri Lankan intelligence classified screening and interrogation camps ) who escaped Sri Lankan Government bloodbath in the beaches in Vanni in 50 barbed wire detention camps and the list is reproduced below. Local UNHCR & ICRC is refusing to help locating or tracing relatives and registering the names of these 289,915 tamils a human rights activist accused. Registration of these 289,915 Tamils are done by Sri Lankan Army.
With fresh reports emerging calls grow in support of war crime probe
Any government could defeat terrorism if it ignored the 1949 Geneva convention that aims to protect civilians; Washington officials in the Justice Department considering to seek criminal charges against Gotabaya Rajapaksa; clear signs of heavy artillery shelling, no-fire zones were not spared; concern growing for the displaced people, Emily Wax reports in Washington Post.
Emily Wax writing on Washington Post says that there were clear signs of heavy artillery shelling on the strip of beach where tens of thousands of civilians huddled during the conflict between Sri Lankan government forces Tamil rebels.
The night of May 31, 1981 Jaffna library burned
Remembering the sad saga of Tamils in Sri Lanka, a cultural genocide of Tamils, the burning down of the Jaffna library, one of the biggest and finest in Asia, on the night of May 31, 1981? On that fateful night Sri Lankan paramilitary forces set ablaze this grand library as part of the pogrom against Tamils of Jaffna. Some 97,000 volumes of books, excluding rare and important Ola manuscripts, went up in flames.
Tamils should not fall prey to government lies
For the Tamils around the world the sad news of the destruction of the acknowledged Tamil leadership came as a tremendous shock. The LTTE leadership was of immense symbolic significance in that they provided a rallying point for the Tamils to orchestrate against the oppression and the aggressive actions towards the Tamils by the Sinhala polity.
