Topic started by Truth (@ hse-sudbury-ppp197763.sympatico.ca) on Tue Oct 28 18:24:41 EST 2003.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3221807.stm

An official inquiry team in Sri Lanka has concluded that the police and armed forces are institutionally racist towards Tamils.


Many Tamils from northern Sri Lanka vanished without trace

The team was asked to investigate nearly 300 disappearances in the northern town of Jaffna - most of them Tamils who were taken into custody by the military.

Their report is a damning indictment of Sri Lanka's human rights record during the ethnic conflict.

The inquiry team was asked to investigate the cases of roughly 250 Tamils who disappeared in Jaffna, allegedly while in the custody of the Sri Lankan army.

But the team complained of indifference and a lack of co-operation from the military authorities.

'Tigers also guilty'

They said they were effectively denied access to many serving army officers, whose evidence would have been critical.

We fault the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam too... for specially targeting Muslim leaders

Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission
A list of 37 suspects, including names, dates and locations, was given to the military authorities - but they failed to identify a single person.

Only two serving army officers were interviewed, but the team's report said these men remembered virtually nothing, despite being directly implicated in many of the complaints of disappearance.

Although the finger of blame was pointed at the military, the report also said the police were complicit in attempts to cover up the disappearances.

The inquiry team said it appeared that thousands of innocent people could be arrested, tortured, raped and killed and have their bodies disposed of, without any record being kept.

Twenty-five cases of Muslims who disappeared in Jaffna were also investigated.

The team said that the Tamil Tiger rebels were guilty of targeting Muslim leaders and had failed to respond to their requests for information.

Overall, the team said their work was painful and depressing, and nothing could immunise them from sharing the trauma of each new witness they heard.

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• From: Binocular (@ 66.36.249.149) on: Tue Oct 28 21:00:05 EST 2003
  
  
  Who is the head of the Human Rights Commission that presented the report?
  
  Radhika Coomaraswamy - a Sri Lankan Tamil.
  
  Gee what a BIG SUPRISE!! LOLS....
  
  the report can't be biased at all... of course not.
  
  
• From: Scope (@ ottawa-hse-ppp3653541.sympatico.ca) on: Tue Oct 28 22:15:37 EST 2003
  
  Binocular,
  "Who is the head of the Human Rights Commission that presented the report?
  
  Radhika Coomaraswamy - a Sri Lankan Tamil. "
  
  I couldn't find this piece of info in that article, canyou please kindly provide unbiased evident for your above CLAIM!
  
  
• From: Truth (@ hse-sudbury-ppp197763.sympatico.ca) on: Tue Oct 28 22:59:12 EST 2003
  
  It describes "An official inquiry team", and it was done by the Sri Lankan government, get that through your thick racist head Binocular "66.36.249.149"
  
  
• From: Binocular (@ 66.36.249.149) on: Tue Oct 28 23:30:51 EST 2003
  
  Haha Scope aren't u aware of anything in Sri Lanka? Want proof you can do a google search. Radhika Coomaraswamy is also part of the ICES.
  
  Funny how the Sri Lankan Tamils always s c r e w s up ..... another example: IGP Anandarajah who was booted recently (thank God) because was caught fraternising with drug barons! The funny thing is that Tamils were complaning about the "Sinhalese police and their atrocities" blah blah when the highest post in the police department was filled by a Sri Lankan Tamil! LOLS.... blame your own people instead of others.... haha.... is this the typical Sri Lankan Tamil mentality or what? Always blame others?
  
  With all due repect, Radhika Coomaraswamy the Sri Lankan Tamils can go and shove her 'report' up her a s s.
  
  Meanwhile the LTTE is still banned in the USA, Australia, India, Malaysia, Russia etc and Sri Lanka is going to sign a defence pact with India while the US is providing military training to the 'racist' Sri Lankan security forces.
  
  So much for Radhika's report.
  
  haha.
  
  
  
  
• From: Binocular (@ 66.36.249.149) on: Tue Oct 28 23:38:47 EST 2003
  
  
  This just makes me laugh....
  
  Sri Lankan Tamils complain about the Sri Lankan security forces, but here they are in western countries slaughtering and chopping up their own people... stuff that makes u proud to be a Sri Lankan Tamil this!
  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3130372.stm
  
  As two men are jailed for life for murder, BBC News Online investigates what is behind the spiral of violence which has claimed the lives of 10 young men in London's 80,000-strong Tamil community in the past three years.
  
  31 Oct 2000: Manah Kumar, Edmonton
  17 Jun 2001: Aravinthan Muthukumarasamy, Ealing
  6 Nov 2001: Sellathurai Balasingham, Mitcham
  19 Feb 2002: Supenthar Ramachandran, Kingsbury
  22 Apr 2002: Suresh Selvarajah, Wembley
  5 Dec 2002: Navalogan Navaratnam, Edmonton
  19 Mar 2003: Thilipan Thangavidel, Ilford
  8 Jun 2003: Partheepan Balasingham, Wembley
  8 Jun 2003: Kishokumar Balachandiran, Wanstead
  30 Aug 2003: Asan Ratnasergam, Wembley
  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3130372.stm
  
  
  Keep the great Sri Lankan Tamil culture going! Make "Tamil Eelam" proud of you!
  
  
  
• From: Binocular (@ 66.36.249.149) on: Wed Oct 29 01:01:25 EST 2003
  
  
  ENJOY THIS TOO:
  
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  The Moors (and not the Ceylon Tamils) are the largest minority in Sri Lanka claims a Muslim lawyer, Mr. M. Z. Akbar.
  
  He says:
  
  "The Muslims of Sri Lanka of whom nearly 95 per cent are Sri Lankan Moors are 8.3 per cent of the population according to 2001 Census figure. The Ceylon Tamils are 6.7 per cent because several lakhs of Tamils have left this country for foreign employment. There are two hundred and fifty thousand Tamil residents in Canada alone. The Ceylon Moors are the largest minority in Sri Lanka and ethnically the second largest community in Sri Lanka."
  
  Mr. M.Z. Akbar, Attorney -at-Law, has made this Statement in a Report prepared by an Independent and Representative Committee setting out a case against a Federal Constitution for Sri Lanka.
  
  

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