Srilankan War Crimes-UN Panel’s Report -Original Document.

The evidence of SriLankan Genocide is stronger than the Rwandan case. Follow the Link at the end to read the report of the Expert Panel appointed by UN chief to enquire into Srilanka war crimes and accountability,which Rajapakshe and his brothers are trying hard to suppress. Read my blogs on this filed under Sri Lanka.…

Ramanis blog

24 Jun 2011

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The evidence of SriLankan Genocide is stronger than the Rwandan case.

Follow the Link at the end to read the report of the Expert Panel appointed by UN chief to enquire into Srilanka war crimes and accountability,which Rajapakshe and his brothers are trying hard to suppress.

Read my blogs on this filed under Sri Lanka.

A former Rwandan women’s minister has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the genocide and the rape of Tutsi women and girls.

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, 65, is the first woman convicted by the UN-backed tribunal for the Rwanda genocide.

She was found guilty, along with her son and four other former officials, after a 10-year trial.

The UN report acknowledges this, if not in so many words, while also pointing to the fact that several contemporary issues in Sri Lanka, if left unaddressed, will deter effort towards genuine accountability and may undermine prospects for durable peace in consequence.

“Most notably, this includes:

triumphalism on the part of the Government, expressed through its discourse on having developed the means and will to defeat ‘terrorism’, thus ending Tamil aspirations for political autonomy and recognition, and its denial regarding the human dost of its military strategy;

on-going exclusionary policies, which are particularly deleterious as political, social and economic exclusion based on ethnicity, perceived or real, have been at the heart of the conflict;
the continuation of wartime measures, including not only the Emergency Regulations and the Prevention of Terrorism Act, mentioned above, but also the continued militarization of the former conflict zone and the use of paramilitary proxies, all of which perpetuate a climate of fear, intimidation and violence;
restrictions on the media, which are contrary to democratic governance and limit basic citizens’ rights; and
the role of the Tamil diaspora, which provided vital moral and material support to the LTTE over decades, and some of whom refuse to acknowledge the LTTE’s role in the humanitarian disaster in the Vanni, creating a further obstacle to accountability and sustainable peace”.