Sri lanka Former President and mahintha rajapaksa and hid brother Kothabya withi his Army regiments is war Criminal TGTE appeal at UNO Human Rights .
The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) passed a
Resolution in its Sixth Parliamentary sitting in Paris, France, thanking the UN
Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for
monitoring Sri Lanka’s International Crimes and Human Rights abuses, strongly
urging the UNHRC not to give any extension of time beyond the March 2017
deadline to the Sri Lankan Government for it to fulfill its commitment to the
unanimously adopted UN Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1, which was
voluntarily co-sponsored by Sri Lanka itself on “promoting reconciliation,
accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka”.
The TGTE Resolution
while encouraging the UNHRC to remain seized with accountability and
transitional justice in Sri Lanka, requests it to refer the matter to the UN
General Assembly with the recommendation to the Security Council that the case
for war crimes, crimes against humanity be sent to the International Criminal
Court (ICC) or that an ad-hoc International Criminal Tribunal be created on Sri
Lanka.
The Resolution states
that any extension of time will embolden and encourage Sri Lankan Government to
commit human rights abuses against Tamils without any fear and Tamils’ safety
will be in danger. It notes that tens of thousands Sri Lankan Security forces
that committed mass killings and sexual violence are still stationed in Tamil
areas and live among the victims. There are numerous reports of current abuses
committed against Tamils including a recent report by UN Special Rapporteur on
torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Mr. Juan Mendez.
The Resolution notes
that the Sri Lankan government’s continued disregard of human rights norms even
today as demonstrated by the above mentioned reports on continuing militarized
environment, torture and sexual abuses is further proof that the war crimes of
2008/2009 will not be addressed.
The Resolution points
out “as Sri Lanka has accomplished almost none of the commitments it
voluntarily made in 2015 to the UN Human Rights Council, any extension of time
given to Sri Lanka beyond March 2017 will result in no accountability for war
crimes and crimes against humanity it committed against Tamils.”
The Resolution also
highlights that any number of years of extension would not yield any results,
because there was no political will by the successive Sri Lankan Governments.
“Sri Lanka is attempting
to drag this accountability process on and on until it falls off the
international agenda, thus escaping from accountability and for the mass
killing and sexual violence of Tamils in 2009 in Mullivsaikaal, where according
to the UN Internal Review report on Sri Lanka around 70 thousand Tamils were
killed in six months.”
The Resolution points
out that “the extension of time to Sri Lanka will also embolden other abusive
countries around the world to commit mass killings and sexual violence without
any fear and follow Sri Lanka’s example to evade UN Human Right’s Council’s
Resolutions.”
The Resolution compared
Sri Lanka’s impunity with that of North Korea. In the case of North Korea, it
was only accused of committing Crimes against Humanity, but Sri Lanka was
accused of committing both War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity.
Documented evidence
against Sri Lanka is far more extensive, in-depth, and numerous in comparison
to North Korea.
Due to North Korea’s
inaction, the UN Human Rights Council referred North Korea to the UN General
Assembly, urging the Assembly to recommend the UN Security Council to refer
North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The Resolution points
out that consistency is an important element of credibility and warns that
failure to refer Sri Lanka to General Assembly and Security Council will damage
UN HRC’s credibility and will weaken this important institution.
The TGTE’s Resolution
concludes by strongly urging UN Human Rights Council to refer Sri Lanka to the
UN General Assembly, along with a recommendation to the UN Security Council
that Sri Lanka be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) or that an
ad-hoc International Criminal Tribunal be created on Sri Lanka, similar to the
procedure followed to assure accountability for North Korea’s Crimes Against
Humanity.
By - Tamil :M
.M .Nilamdeen By English Raise Ahmad
