Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, Rudd has emulated Whitlam's willful blindness to the 1975 invasion of East Timor
The callous and evil slaughter and rape of ethnic Tamils last May by the Sinhalese armed forces in Sri Lanka compares with the Indonesian mass murder of East Timorese in the Indonesian Invasion of 1975 and again in the 1991 Dili Massacre.
WHITLAM'S WILLFUL BLINDNESS TO EAST TIMOR GENOCIDE
In September 1974, in central Java, Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam told Indonesia's President Suharto that East Timor was “too small to be independent”. EAST TIMOR: The Indonesian-Australian invasion
"On 7 December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor involving a naval bombardment of Dili, seaborne troops, paratroopers. On December 10, a second invasion resulted in the capture the town off Baucau followed shortly after by up to 15,000 troops landing at Liquisa and Maubara. By April 1976 Indonesia had some 35,000 soldiers in East Timor. Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik later on suggested that the number of East Timorese killed in the first two years of the occupation was "50,000 people or perhaps 80,000".
At the start of the occupation, FRETILIN radio sent the following broadcast: "The Indonesian forces are killing indiscriminately. Women and children are being shot in the streets. We are all going to be killed.... This is an appeal for international help. Please do something to stop this invasion." One Timorese refugee told later of "rape [and] cold-blooded assassinations of women and children and Chinese shop owners".[15] Dili's bishop at the time, Martinho da Costa Lopes, said later: "The soldiers who landed started killing everyone they could find. There were many dead bodies in the streets — all we could see were the soldiers killing, killing, killing."
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All Australian governments, Liberal and Labor, have been and remain complicit in their willful blindness of East Timor.
RUDD'S WILLFUL BLINDNESS TO TAMIL GENOCIDE
A generation later, Prime Minister Rudd betrayed the Tamils when in October 2008 Rudd sided with the Sinhalese regime and formally declared Sri lanka's separatist Tamil Tigers a terrorist group, and so sat back while the dogs of war were unleashed on the Tamils.
Since coming to power in November 2007, Rudd has had a chance to review Australia' s foreign policy created under the previous Howard Government. Instead, Rudd has blindly followed Howard's support for the US supporting the Sri Lankan Sinhalese civil conflict against the Tamils, dismissed and illegitimised as terrorists. Rudd has stood by human rights abuses against Tamils in Sri Lanka despite Australia being a regional neighbour of Sri Lanka and an influential joint member nation of the Commonwealth. The Sri Lankan government has for the past four years been slaughtering ethnic Tamils as part of a deliberate strategy of genocide.
Back in October 2008, Dr John Whitehall a Queensland-based pediatrician with recent direct experience in Sri Lanka reported of the "great human tragedy" unfolding in Sri Lanka.
"The silence of Western media and government has emboldened the majority Sinhalese to embark on a renewed campaign to dispossess and kill the Tamil people.
The Tamil-controlled north-east of Sri Lanka thunders "day and night" under bombardment from the forces of the Sinhalese government in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo as they attempt to destroy Tamil autonomy.
Against this backdrop, "a great human tragedy" is also "exploding", according to Fr James Pathinathan of St Theresa's Church in Kilinochchi, the administrative capital of the de facto government of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
From the eye of the storm, Fr Pathinathan, who is also president of the local Justice and Peace Commission, reports that "deaths, injuries, displacements and attendant misery pervade the lives of innocent Tamil civilians... and the draconian economic embargo imposed slyly... has become a monstrous obstacle in giving relief and solace to the 170,000 persons recently displaced".
The Sri Lankan Government's economic embargo, involving the closure of roads and ports of access for food, medicines, and fuel for an already destitute population, has conventional arsenal, cluster bombs and white phosphorus bombs.
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The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Sweden tried to get into Colombo to discuss the humanitarian disaster with the GoSL. The Swedish foreign minister could not even get a visa to enter the country. The other two got there and returned saying that they had “tried very hard” but achieved nothing.
In the face of increasing international concern at the civilian casualties, the Tamil Tigers declared a unilateral cease-fire. The GoSL refused to reciprocate saying that the offer was a "joke".
On May 21, 2008 Sri Lanka was tossed out of the UN Human Rights Council on account of its outrageous human rights record.
However, little or none of this is mentioned in the Australian media. Australians have a right to ask why.
The Australian Government has failed to act in condemning a serious abuse of human rights by a country with which it shares an ocean.
Commercial and geo-political considerations are clearly more important than humanitarian ones, however serious. Indeed, in giving "aid" to the Rajapaksa government in the middle of its killing spree against the Tamils, the Rudd government has been in political solidarity with the Rajapaksa's military mission.
This is simply not acceptable, and damages the image of Australia by its failure to condemn a murderous regime that h
It is easy to see how Tamils believe that the Sinhalese are bent on wiping them out. In 1948, Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) gained independence from the British. Not long after, in 1956, the Sri Lankan parliament passed a Sinhala Only Act. This relegated Tamils to the status of second-class citizenry.
It also exposed them to the repeated violence that culminated in the disgraceful race riots in 1983 when Sinhala mobs guided by voting-lists set out to destroy Tamil homes and even antiquities such as the library in Jaffna.
Sinhalese forces themselves invaded Jaffna and subjected the local population to barbaric treatment.
They were even prepared to murder journalists in their bid to intimidate the Tamil press. Every day, Tamils in non-combat areas "disappeared", having been taken away in the backs of notorious white vans.
Underlying this conflict lies deep racist sentiment. I personally have been astonished by the number of educated Sinhalese who boast of an "Aryan" heritage, compared to the "Dravidian" origin of Tamils. The former implies some northern origin from lighter-skinned and educated forebears; the latter implies an origin in the jungles of India. This antagonism is fuelled by fundamentalist Buddhist proclamations that ancient texts identify "foreign devils" who should be expelled.
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This racism is supported in practice by the Marxist-Leninists of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) which holds 40 of the 225 seats in parliament and is part of the government coalition. Proclaiming Lenin's doctrines of central dictatorship by the vanguard of the proletariat, it has vigorously urged military destruction of Tamil hopes for autonomy.
As bombs have begun to fall on the town of Kilinochchi, causing the population to flee, Fr Pathinathan has declared that "the call of the hour is urgent" and pleads for "the people of goodwill all over the world" to "protect the people of Wanni [north-east Sri Lanka] who are threatened with death and destruction and dehumanisation".
But few people seem interested. With the Tamil homelands cut off more effectively than Biafra in the Nigerian civil war, who wants to see pictures of starving children?"
[SOURCE: SRI LANKA: Plight of persecuted Tamils worsens, by Dr John Whitehall, News Weekly, 25-Oct-08]
International Pen on 10 Sep 2008 reported in an article ['SRI LANKA: Tamil journalists detained] the detention and alleged torture of Tamil journalists V. Jasikaran and J. S. Tissainayagam, whom by then had been held by the Sri Lankan government in Colombo for six months under terrorist legislation, apparently for their critical writings.
According to International PEN's information, on 6 March 2008 V. Jasikaran, a Tamil journalist, owner of the E-Kwality printing works and reporter for the news website Outreach Sri Lanka (http://outreachsl.com/en/), was arrested with his wife V. Valamathy, by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) in Colombo. The following day, on 7 March, Tamil journalist for the Sunday Times newspaper and editor of Outreach Sri Lanka, Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam, was also arrested by the TID, following a visit he made to the offices of the TID requesting information about the detention of his colleague.
Initial reports suggested that V. Jasikaran and J. S. Tissanayagam were accused of receiving money from the Tamil Tiger rebel group; however it is widely believed that the two men are targeted for their reporting and analysis on the ongoing conflict between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) in the northern part of the country.
According to Amnesty International, ‘The Emergency Regulations, issued by the President, introduce broad-based and vaguely-defined "terrorism" offenses, which have been used to silence critical journalists and generally suppress freedom of expression in Sri Lanka.'
J.S. Tissainayagam was held under renewable 90-day detention orders for five months before being charged on 25 August 2008 as follows: 1) offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act: in respect to printing, publishing, and distribution of the magazine North Eastern Monthly, between 1 June 2006 to 1 June 2007; 2) offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in respect of bringing the government into disrepute by the publication of articles in said magazine; and 3) the violation of Emergency Regulations by aiding and abetting terrorist organisations through the raising of money for said magazine. It is said that North Eastern Magazine was known to be a pro-Tamil English-language publication that closed down over a year ago. It was not considered to be pro-LTTE. His trial is due to start on 18 September 2008.
On 19 March, J. S. Tissainayagam filed a complaint before the Supreme Court, claiming that since his arrest he had been tortured, suffered discrimination because of his ethnicity and denied equal protection under the law.
Fellow Tamil journalist V. Jasikaran has also reported being subject to torture since his arrest. On 23 June, V. Jasikaran stated in court that he had been assaulted by members of the TID and the police during his detention."
Around this time the Sri Lankan foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama visited Australia requesting Australia to join countries such as Britain and the United States in taking the step against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Rudd Government received requests from the Sri Lankan Government to formally declare the separatist Tamil Tigers a terrorist group. ' Australia urged to list Tamil Tigers as terrorists' [AFP/Reuters, 13-Oct-08].
Rudd obliged, ignoring the worsening persecution of the Tamil population by the Sinhalese government.
In a statement by Dr Brian Senewiratne (MD, FRCP, FRACP) 7 May 2009 entitled 'Genocide of Tamils and atrocities in Sri Lanka while Australia looks on'
"Last week the Sinhalese-dominated Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) succeeded in its immediate aim of ending the armed resistance of the Tamil people, who live in the North and East of the country. "Bloodbath on the beach" was how the United Nations described the battle and we are yet to see the full extent of this major humanitarian catastrophe.
The GoSL of Mahendra Rajapaksa claims it has triumphed in a "war on terrorism". What it has really been doing is fighting the Tamil people to force them to accept Sri Lanka as a Sinhala-Buddhist nation. It is about the alliance between the religious fundamentalists and the state chauvinists who together, with the backing of key Western countries - have been able to deny the Tamils their rights. According to international law expert Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, the Europeans and the United States gave the green light to Rajapaksa to go ahead and destroy the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and their homeland.
There had been progress on a negotiated settlement between the GoSL and the LTTE, and even discussion about a federal structure for Sri Lanka, but Rajapaksa terminated the talks and the ceasefire and resumed the fighting, and now the world is witness to the dreadful consequences.
...It is a genocide when a war against 10% of the population over three decades culminates in the death of 10,000 people in a few months, about 100,000 in the last 32 years. It is genocide when governments try to wipe out a people's political voice and drive half a population into the diaspora.
Sri Lanka's Tamils are now facing genocide or internment in concentration camps that masquerade as "refugee camps". The Tamil civilians were supposedly "liberated" from the Tamil Tigers by the GoSL. But if they are liberated people, why keep them behind barbed-wire fences, and why are international observers, including the media and humanitarian workers, prevented from visiting these camps?
There are 154,000 Tamil civilians, some in tents, others under trees, in 24 camps, behind barbed-wire fences. The tents are for five people, but house between seven and 21. Living conditions are appalling, with deliberate starvation and the denial of adequate medical help.
The women and girls are raped by the Armed Forces, pregnant women are aborted and some even sterilised. The GoSL would deny all this. Can foreign observers check these allegations? No they may not. Why? Because it is an "internal affair". We beg to differ.
There are some 120,000 Tamil civilians left in the government "safe zone", which has been regularly bombed by its armed forces. Even hospitals have not been spared. The defence secretary, the president’s brother, in an interview with British media, said that bombing of hospitals is "acceptable". This contravenes the first and fourth sections of the Geneva Convention, signed and ratified by the GoSL.
The GoSL expelled all humanitarian workers and agencies, including UN agencies, from the conflict zone so that genocide could be done without witnesses. This has not been done in any other country in the world.
More than 6000 Tamil civilians have been slaughtered in just the past four months. Last week, the only obstetrician in the area was gunned down by the Armed Forces. Why? Genocide.
Kfir jets, bombers, multi-barrel rocket launchers and helicopter gunships have been used by the GoSL dropping, in addition to conventional arsenal, cluster bombs and white phosphorus bombs.
End Western complicity in war crimes
The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Sweden tried to get into Colombo to discuss the humanitarian disaster with the GoSL. The Swedish foreign minister could not even get a visa to enter the country. The other two got there and returned saying that they had “tried very hard” but achieved nothing.
In the face of increasing international concern at the civilian casualties, the Tamil Tigers declared a unilateral cease-fire. The GoSL refused to reciprocate saying that the offer was a "joke".
On May 21, 2008 Sri Lanka was tossed out of the UN Human Rights Council on account of its outrageous human rights record.
However, little or none of this is mentioned in the Australian media. Australians have a right to ask why.
The Australian Government has failed to act in condemning a serious abuse of human rights by a country with which it shares an ocean.
Commercial and geo-political considerations are clearly more important than humanitarian ones, however serious. Indeed, in giving "aid" to the Rajapaksa government in the middle of its killing spree against the Tamils, the Rudd government has been in political solidarity with the Rajapaksa's military mission.
This is simply not acceptable, and damages the image of Australia by its failure to condemn a murderous regime that has the temerity to call itself a "government", and for failing to institute sanctions on Sri Lanka until the killing stops.
The Australian Government and the Australian media have a serious case to answer for their silence and indifference towards a horrendous genocide. This must stop. The Australian government has a duty - not only to Tamil Australians, but to all those with a conscience - to make every effort to assist now. This must include:
Demanding that the Sri Lankan government be tried before the International Criminal Court for war crimes. This was a war conducted away from any international scrutiny. This massacre was largely hidden. But there has been enough independent information to know that the Rajapaksa government has committed war crimes.
Pressuring the Rajapaksa government to allow Tamils the right to decide where they live, including settling in Australia if they wish.
Ending all aid and support to the Rajapaksa government while it continues its genocidal policy against Sri Lanka's Tamil people."
How similar to the Indonesians treatment for East Timorese? Just like the Indonesians, the Sri Lankans justify banning international monitoring on the basis that it is an 'Internal affair".
Tamils in Sri Lanka have been subject to ethnic discrimination by successive Sri Lankan governments since Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948. Successive Australian governments have done nothing to acknowledge the right of ethnic Tamils to self-determination or to encourage a non-violent political solution.
'Silence is the voice of complicity'
Tamil Tigers - hunted down and exterminated like vermin by Sinhalese President Rajapaksa
President Mahinda Rajapaksa - leader of Sri Lanka since April 2004 (initially as PM)
We're lucky here in Australia; colonial history aside, the dominating colonist derived population doesn't hunt down and slaughter its ethnic minority Aboriginals, these days at least.
Not so in Sri Lanka, where the dominant Sinhalese government lead by President Mahinda Rajapaksa since coming to power in April 2004 as then Prime Minister, has seen it his personal mandate to exterminate the Tamil Tigers from Sri Lanka, like vermin. To be absolutely effective Rajapaksa has ensured that media was kept away and no international monitoring. By ensuring no witnesses to the slaugher, Rajapaksa's army, navy and airforce, with its new British weapons has had free reign to exterminate, shoot on sight and take no prisoners as it sees fit. This way, Rajapaksa's slaughter has been absolute - war crimes and all. So the media coverage has been denied, controlled and filtered as if a post-graduate application of war coverage from the lessons of America's 1960's war against Vietnam. Indeed, Rajapaksa's hunting down Tamil Tigers to the last man, follows comparable histories of ethnic cleansing. But eventually, witnesses will come forward and some truth about what Rajapaksa's army, navy and airforce committed. Reports from medical units in Sri Lanka have reported phosphorus cluster bombs having inflicted horrific burns on the Tamils and civilians.
Back in May 2006, The Indian Express newspaper reported that Sri Lanka had placed orders with Pakistan for cluster bombs, deep penetration bombs and rockets and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). On March 1, 2006 Sri Lankan chief of defense staff D.W.K. Sandagiri wrote to the Pakistan High Commissioner in Colombo requesting he urgently send a technical team to Colombo for an immediate survey of T-55 tanks and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Colombo unsuccessfully asked India for “maintenance contracts and spares for the Sri Lankan Air Force’s large MiG-27 ground strike fleet, laser-guided bomb upgrade kits, dumb bombs, penetration bombs, rocket pod systems and strafing ammunition,” the paper said.
Sri Lanka also asked India for “ship-based mortars, ammunition, small fast-attack craft and sea-mines for the Sri Lankan navy,” but the Indian government “has only allowed the transfer of ammunition and some non-lethal stores.” Sri Lanka also asked India for “multi-barrel rocket launcher systems, mortars, air defence artillery systems, 5.56 mm weapons, ground radars, night vision devices, armoured troop carriers, UAVs, Milan anti-tank missile jeeps and mine-protected vehicles for the Lankan Army.”
SOURCE: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=18028
Ethnic Cleasing of the Chagossians
The seed of ethnic discord was sown during the era of British colonisation of the Chagos Archipelago. Britain's takeover of the Chagos Archipelago remote in the Indian Ocean (including Diego Garcia) ruling that its indigenous Chagossians, forbidden anyone from residing in the islands without a permit. This was all so Britan's ally, the US, could establish a strategic air and naval base on Diego Garcia.
Ethnic Cleansing of the Cambodians
The seed of ethnic discord was sown during the era of French colonisation of Indo-China. France's reluctant post-World War II decolonisation of Indo-China in 1953 saw the creation of Cambodia and perpetuated a class struggle and civil unrest, which culminated in strong anti-colonist movement and by 1975 the coming to power of the Khmer Rouge, which under Pol Pot was responsible for the exterminations of up to 1.7 million Cambodians between 1976 and 1979.
Ethnic 'realignment' of India's Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs
The seed of ethnic discord was sown during the era of British colonisation of the Indian subcontinent. Britain's withdrawal of its colonial control of India saw it impose arbitrary geographic divisions of the subcontinent under what was called the 'Mountbatten Plan' as part of Britain's 'partition' of India in 1947. This directly caused ethnic splitting between Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims, that lead to displacement of millions of people along ethnic lines, including 7,226,000 Muslims forced to Pakistan from India, while 7,249,000 Hindus and Sikhs moved in the former British Indian Empire. It lead to the the Indo-Pakistani War of that year and to ongoing civil unrest in the region ever since.
Ethic cleansing of Tamils
The seed of ethnic discord was sown during the British colonisation of Ceylon. Britain's decolonising of its 'dominion' of Ceylon in 1948 saw biased handover of power to the dominant ethnic Sinhalese, which has fueled civil unrest between ethnic Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Sinhalese ever since.
In Sri Lanka, both the dominate Sinhalese and Tamils separately hold legitimate anthropological custodial inheritance to the island that date back beyond 200 BC. For instance, King Devanampiya Tissa (250-210 BC), a Sinhalese King of the Mauriya clan introduced Buddhism to the island. While King Elara (205-161 BC), a South Indian Tamil invader, ruled "Pihiti Rata" north of the Mahaweli on the island. Historic details are so complex that they compare with any European country's history. So one cannot accept simple stories about the Tamil Tiger conflict in Sri Lanka nor any convenient skin deep consequential solution to the ongoing civil war. SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sri_Lanka
This article post does not seek to even try to condense 2000 odd years of this island's rich and complex history, but points out that in the wake of another 21st Century ethnic slaughter just last week, the underlying social and political causes stem from an historic conspiracy of neglect and prejudice. Britain historically ruled Ceylon in the 19th Century and so Queen Victoria's reign is deservedly accountable for the British empirical domination and designed aftermath. Britain set in place a political structure of civil unrest not just in its 'Dominion of Ceylon', but in almost all its illegal colonial possessions. Read the history of this colonial period to appreciate this damning perspective of the British colonial empire and the post World War II so-called 'independence' mess it left behind in dozens of former British colonies from Northern Ireland to Palestine to Sri Lanka. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee at the time has a lot to answer for.
Earlier, on 7th July 1931, Britain's Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, approved hand over of Britain's colonial sovereignty over Ceylon to Britain's preferred Sinhalese government. But this single unjust bias by an injust colonial power denied all heritage rights of ethnic Tamils to their ancient rights of homeland on the island. In so doing, Britain effectively and insidiously seeded decades of Sinhalese-Tamil tension and civil war up which has persisted up until last week.
Once George Bush Jnr labelled the ethnic Tamil Tigers a terrorist group after 9/11 and created a global policy for zero tolerance, national liberation groups became conveniently bundled as terrorist organisations. Since 2006, the unaccountable CIA has been complicit in the exponential arming of the Sinhalese since 2006 and the de-arming of the LTTE by thwarting naval arms shipments to the Tamils from SE Asia. In 2009, Britain has sold £7 million worth of weapons and military equipment to PM Mahinda Rajapaksa's army, according to Britain's ruling Labor MP Joan Ruddock.
Britain's sales of arms to Sri Lanka since 2006 makes Tony Blair complicit in the Sinhalese genocide of Tamils in northern Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka had no other need. The reported 10,000 killed in the last few months exceeds those of Srebrenica but not Rwanda but why rank human slaughter statistics? It is the toothless,underfunded and token UN, the British antiquated Commonwealth, and the countries supplying arms to the Sri Lankan military are complicit in the effects of this civil war. Politically correct attempts to argue this military crusade was a fight against terrorists is to use the same propaganda that South Africa's P.W. Botha used against Nelson Mandela.
The UN, US, UK, France, and India have allowed this genocide to happen. Pakistan's Swat Valley conflict against the Taliban sounds too well CIA-timed to be co-incidental.
History will reveal that the 2006-09 Sinhalese offensive was to obliterate the Tamils any right of self-determination. That it was a well planned, extremely well funded and indeed international co-ordinated effort. It was another unjust George Bush atrocity and it implicated Vincent Cannistraro (CIA-previously), Leon Panetta (CIA-currently), Dr. Manmohan Singh, Ban Ki-moon, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, and Nicolas Sarkozyn.
The seed of ethnic discord in Sri Lanka was sown during the British colonisation era.
But Britain's sense of empirialist self-righteousness persists long after its colonial withdraw. The British Government under Tony Blair and now Gordon Brown has pursued consistent foreign policy biases in Sri Lanka, being the big global power underpinning Rajapaksa's Sinhalese regime. The British government has been active behind the scene, isolating the Tamils from funding, arms and an international voice.
Current Situation in Sri Lanka:
"UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, is currently in Sri Lanka to discuss the plight of up to 300,000 Tamils displaced by the war. His chief of staff, Vijay Nambiar, who flew over the scene of the final battle on Thursday, described a devastated landscape in which the loosely-packed tents appeared to have been destroyed and there were large numbers of burning vehicles. Only a few soldiers could be seen moving around, he said. "We were not able to see any civilians. What was truly striking was almost the total absence of human habitation … it was almost eerie."
He said the issues surrounding an investigation into possible war crimes would be discussed by the UN Human Rights Council next week.
"As far as the UN is concerned, where there are grave and systematic violations of international humanitarian law, these are things which should be looked at by the international community, by the United Nations," he said.
He said the secretary general would press the Sri Lankan government over the detention of doctors who treated civilians inside the war zone but who have since been arrested, accused of giving out false casualty figures.
A UN official later said the Sri Lankan government would be urged to consider an amnesty to former LTTE members to speed up the peace process.
He said the issues surrounding an investigation into possible war crimes would be discussed by the UN Human Rights Council next week."
SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/22/sri-lanka-ban-ki-moon-un
Conclusion
The UN is obligated to investigate the charges of war crimes, human rights abuses and ethnic cleansing allegations against the Sri Lankan military and to pursue if justified, criminal charges against Rajapaksa and his unjust Sinhalese regime. The terms of reference must extend to those countries like Britain, India, the US and France which have been complicit in what clearly has been the deliberate ethic slaughter of Tamils.
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