Dublin Tribunal (permanent Peoples Tribunal) Indicts Srilanka of Tamil Genocide

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The Lie of the Century nailed:

Permanent People’s Tribunal (Dublin war crimes tribunal) has given its verdict that what happened in eezham during 2008-2009 and earlier and until now is Tamil Genocide.

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Sri Lanka guilty of genocide: PPT verdict

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 11:08 GMT]
After an assessment of evidences presented by eyewitnesses and experts, judges of the Permanent People’s Tribunal reached unanimous consensus that the Sri Lankan state was guilty of crimes of genocide against the Eezham Tamils and that the genocide is continuing even after the end of the military operations against the LTTE. Concluding the four day session with a press conference at Bremen on Tuesday, the judges also noted that the Sri Lankan military did not have capacity to commit genocide on its own and that it was supported by the UK-USA-India axis. While the judges held the USA and the UK to be complicit in the genocidal process, they were of the opinion that more evidence was needed as regards India’s role.

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The Eezham Tamils were killed not as individuals but as a group and the target of the Sri Lankan state was the destruction of the identity of this group, the findings noted.

The judges took care to highlight the significance of the usage of the term ‘Eelam Tamil (http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=99&artid=27012)’ to refer to the genocide-affected Tamils from the North-East of the island of Sri Lanka.

Noting that the protracted history of genocide extended much before the beginning of the armed conflict, the Tribunal asserted that the Sri Lankan state continued to commit acts of genocide after the end of the “genocidal onslaught” against the de-facto state of the LTTE.

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The Verdict: Full text of the PPT Press Statement (http://tamilnet.com/img/publish/2013/12/PPT_II_Verdict_Press_Release.pdf)





This, however, was not possible without the assistance of world powers.

The UK’s historical role in assisting Sri Lanka, its complicity in procuring arms in aiding and shielding the perpetrator of genocide was discussed.

The judges also noted that the USA’s military-to-military relationship with Sri Lanka enhanced the capacity of the latter to commit genocide. The Tribunal was of the opinion that US role in the peace process tilted balance in favour of the Sri Lankan state and led to the massacre of Tamils in 2009.

However, the Tribunal wished to postpone deliberations on India's role in the genocide pending submission of potential evidence.

Responding to a question from TamilNet on the failure of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Sri Lanka, Dr. Denis Halliday, one of the judges, opined that the R2P doctrine introduced by Gareth Evans was a cover for intervention but not genuine humanitarian intervention, as evidenced in the case of genocide against Eezham Tamils in the island.

The UN has failed the Eezham Tamils and maybe even complicit in the genocide, he said, also noting the failure of the International Community to take appropriate steps.

Burmese democracy activist Maung Zarni, answering a question on the use of the label of ‘terrorism’ to the LTTE, said that terrorism was a "discursive, strategic and political term" cooked-up by world powers as regards to their geo-political interests.

Comparing LTTE and Nelson Mandela’s ANC, he said that a whole movement cannot be labelled as terrorist on the basis of few acts.

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இலங்கையில் நடந்தது இனப் படுகொலைதான்:
ஜெர்மனி மக்கள் தீர்ப்பாயம் அறிவிப்பு!
December 11, 2013, 15:24 [IST]

ப்ரமன்: இலங்கையில் நடந்தது இனப் படுகொலைதான் என்று ஜெர்மனி மக்கள் தீர்ப்பாயம் தீர்ப்பளித்துள்ளது. அதோடு மட்டுமல்லது விடுதலைப்புலிகள் இயக்கம், விடுதலைப் போராளி இயக்கம் என்றும் நீதிபதிகள் தீர்ப்பளித்துள்ளனர்.

இலங்கை ராணுவம் போர்க்குற்றங்களில் ஈடுபட்டது தொடர்பாக ஜெர்மனியின் ப்ரமன் நகரில் மக்கள் தீர்ப்பாயத்தின் இரண்டாவது அமர்வில் கடந்த 7ஆம் தேதி முதல் விசாரணை நடந்து வந்தது. 11 நீதிபதிகள் கொண்ட அமர்வு இந்த வழக்கை விசாரித்தது. அப்போது, இலங்கை அரசு புலிகளுக்கு எதிரான யுத்தம் என்று கூறிக்கொண்டு, லட்சக்கணக்கான தமிழர்களை குழந்தைகள், பெண்கள், ஆயுதம் ஏந்தாத பொதுமக்கள் என அனைவரையும் படுகொலை செய்ததால், கொடுந்துயரத்துக்கு ஆளான ஈழத் தமிழர்கள், நேரடி சாட்சியங்களை பிரமாண வாக்குமூலங்கள் மூலம் மக்கள் தீர்ப்பாயத்தில் பதிவு செய்தனர்.

இலங்கையில் நடந்தது இனப் படுகொலைதான்: ஜெர்மனி மக்கள் தீர்ப்பாயம் அறிவிப்பு! மே-17 இயக்கம் தமிழகத்திலிருந்து மே-17 இயக்கத்தின் ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளர்களான திருமுருகன் காந்தியும், உமரும் இதுகுறித்த அறிக்கையை தீர்ப்பாயத்திடம் தந்தனர். இனக்கொலை குறித்து தொடர்ந்து ஆய்வு செய்து வரும் மனித உரிமை ஆர்வலர்கள், அனைத்துலக சட்ட வல்லுநர்கள், களப் பணியாளர்கள், ஈழத் தமிழர் ஆதரவு இயக்கங்கள் ஆகியோரின் கருத்துகளையும் தீர்ப்பாயம் பதிவு செய்து விசாரணை நடத்தப்பட்டது.

விடுதலைப்புலிகள் இந்த விசாரணையின்போது விடுதலைப் புலிகள் பயங்கரவாதிகளா? என்ற கருத்து விவாதிக்கப்பட்டபோது, "இது மேல்நாட்டு அரசாங்கங்களால் தங்களுடைய அரசியல் பூகோள நலன்களுக்காக உரிமைக்குப் போராடுபவர்களை ஒடுக்குவதற்காக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட குற்றச்சாட்டாகும்" என்று மியான்மர் தேசத்தின் ஜனநாயகப் போராளி மவுங் ஜார்னி தெரிவித்தார்.

இனப்படுகொலையே!
மூன்று நாட்கள் நடைபெற்ற விசாரணைக்குப் பின், நான்காம் நாளான டிசம்பர் 10 ஆம் தேதி மக்கள் தீர்ப்பாயம் தீர்ப்பளித்தது. அதில், ஈழத் தமிழர்களை தனித் தனியாக கொலை செய்யாமல், தமிழர் இனம் என்ற அடிப்படையில் அந்த சமூகத்தின் அடையாளமே இல்லாமல் அழிக்க வேண்டும் என்ற நோக்கத்தில் இலங்கை அரசு படுகொலையை நடத்தியுள்ளது. தமிழ் இனம் அழிப்பு புலிகளோடு சிங்கள அரசு நடத்திய யுத்தத்துக்கு முன்பாகவே, நீண்ட காலமாக தமிழ் இனப்படுகொலையை இலங்கை அரசு நடத்தி வந்துள்ளது.

யுத்தத்துக்குப் பின்னரும் தமிழ் இன அழிப்பை இலங்கை அரசு தொடர்ந்து செய்து வருகிறது. இங்கிலாந்து ஆயுத உதவி உலக நாடுகளின் உதவி இல்லாமல், இந்த இனப்படுகொலை யுத்தத்தை இலங்கை அரசு செய்திருக்க முடியாது. இலங்கை அரசுக்கு, இங்கிலாந்து அரசு ஆயுத உதவி செய்ததோடு, இனக்கொலை நடத்திய சிங்கள அரசுக்கு ஆதரவாகவும் செயல்பட்டு வந்துள்ளது.

அமெரிக்காவும் உதவி தீர்ப்பாயத்தின் நீதிபதிகள் மேலும் குறிப்பிடுகையில், இலங்கை அரசு இனக்கொலை நடத்துவதற்கான ராணுவ பலத்தை கொடுக்கும் விதத்தில், அமெரிக்க அரசு ராணுவ உதவி செய்திருக்கிறது. அமைதிக்கான பேச்சு வார்த்தை நடவடிக்கைகளின்போது அமெரிக்க அரசு இலங்கை அரசுக்கு சாதகமாக நடந்துகொண்டதால், 2009 இல் தமிழர்களின் பேரழிவுக்கு அது வழி வகுத்தது.

போராளிகளா? பயங்கரவாதிகளா?
மியான்மர் தேசத்தின் ஜனநாயகப் போராளி மவுங் ஜார்னி விசாரணையின்போது எடுத்துரைத்த கருத்தை பார்த்தால் நெல்சன் மண்டேலாவும் ஒரு காலத்தில் பயங்கரவாதிதான். ஆனால், அவர் விடுதலைப் போராளி என்று உலகம் போற்றுகிறது. அவர் விடுதலைப் போராளி என்றால், விடுதலைப்புலிகள் இயக்கமும் விடுதலைப் போராளி இயக்கம்தான்" என்று தீர்ப்பளித்துள்ளது.

ஐ.நாவும் குற்றவாளிகளா?
மேலும், தீர்ப்பாய நீதிபதிகளில் ஒருவரான ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபையின் முன்னாள் துணைப் பொதுச்செயலாளரான டென்னிஸ் ஹாலிடே, "ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபை ஈழத்தமிழர் படுகொலையை தடுக்கத் தவறியதோடு, அப்படுகொலைக்கு உடந்தையாக செயல்பட்டு தன் கடமையில் தவறியது என்றும், சர்வதேச சமுதாயமும் உரிய நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுக்கத் தவறியது" என்றும் நீதிபதி குற்றம் சாட்டினார்.

இந்தத் தமிழ் இனப்படுகொலையில் இந்திய அரசின் பங்கு குறித்து வலுவான சாட்சியங்களையும் ஆவண ஆதாரங்களையும் ஆய்வு செய்த பின், அதனைக் குறித்து முடிவை தீர்ப்பாயம் தெரிவிக்கும் என்று கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.

Read more at: http://tamil.oneindia.in/news/intern...al-189321.html (http://tamil.oneindia.in/news/international/international-tribunal-germany-probe-sri-lanka-s-genocide-al-189321.html)

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Part1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEm0GsemCyc

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Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9XHv6NDwZY&feature=player_detailpage

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Judges / members of the Panel:

Members of the Panel

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Feierstein, Daniel
Director of the Centre for Genocide Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Professor in the Faculty of Genocide at the University of Buenos Aires and a member of CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, (The Argentine National Center for Scholars).


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Halliday, Denis
Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. He resigned from his 34 year old career in the UN because of the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the Security Council. Laureate of the Gandhi International Peace Award.

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Houtart, François (Chairperson)
Prof. Emeritus of Catholic University of Louvain ( Belgium), a member of the UN Commission on Reform of the Financial and Monetary System, Founding Member of the World Social Forum, Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Vietnam and Cuba, Dr. h.c. of Notre Dame University (USA) and of the University of Havana (Cuba) and UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize Awardee for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence.


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Lawlor, Mary
Director, Front Line, The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Dublin.


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Martone, Francesco
An ex-Senator in Italy, a leading activist in the non-governmental sector and an ecologist.


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Saadawi, Nawal al
Egyptian writer, trained as a medical doctor, known for her outstanding work for women’s rights in Egypt and in the region. She has been imprisoned for her activities and writings in Egypt. She has also been United Nation’s Advisor for the Women’s Programme in Africa (ECA) and Middle East (ECWA) from 1979 to 1980. She is a prolific author.


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Sachar, Rajindar
Former Chief Justice, High Court of Delhi and the Chairperson of the Indian Prime Minister’s High Committee on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community in India. Former President, Peoples Union for Civil Liberties in India.


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Sivaraksa, Sulak
Thai Buddhist peace campaigner and writer, initiator of a number of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in Thailand and a laureate of the Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award).


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Tognoni, Gianni
Secretary General, Permanent People’s Tribunal, Rome.

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Tveter, Øystein
A scholar of International Law and member of the People’s Tribunal on extra-judicial killings and violations of human rights in the Philippines.

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Genocide has to be compensated by separation: Sikh politician

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 December 2013, 22:30 GMT]

“Tamils can’t live [in a united Sri Lanka] after the perpetration of the crime of genocide. I think the wounds are too deep historically there to be reconciliation. After a State has committed genocide, there can’t be any reconciliation,” says Simranjit Singh Mann, the president of Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar party, who advocates the formation of Khalistan as an independent and sovereign State for Sikhs, in an exchange of views with Tamil Nadu based May 17 Movement. “Pirapaharan and his movement was too powerful for the Sri Lankan government,” he said, adding that “it was under the collaboration of UPA-led Congress government that the Sri Lanka government was able to achieve and crush the movement for freedom by committing a genocide on the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.”



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A major tactic deployed by the Indian State was to make sure that Tamil Nadu didn’t rise up to exert pressure on the Indian Government. This was achieved through wooing collaborators from Tamil Nadu with positions and money, he said.

“The Tamil people would have listened in revolt and in favour of what was happening to the Tamils in Sri Lanka [in 2009]. But, for the fact that these Tamil leaders had been ‘bought over’, this didn’t happen,” the Sikh leader told Tamil activists from Tamil Nadu.

“Government of India rules Tamils of Tamil Nadu and the Sikhs of Punjab through collaborators, in keeping the Tamils and the Sikhs subdued and not letting in the nationalist feelings be turned into votes,” Mr Simranjit Singh said drawing parallels between the genocide against Sikh people and the genocide against Eezham Tamils.

“I came across Mr Vaiko while I was in parliament from 1999 to 2004. But, other than that, the Tamils have not taken up the cause of the Tamil people in [Indian] parliament,” Mr Simrajit Singh said.

“My experience of the Tamil people is that when the Central Government of Mr Sastri [in 1964-66] wanted to impose Hindi all over India and abolish English [as lingua franca], it was the Tamil people who rose up against it. They committed mass suicides. The pressure went up that the Hindi-speaking Northern Indian people had to give up their designs to poise Hindi on all of India,” he said.

The Sikh politician was advocating for the use of electoral politics as a means to demonstrate the democratic will of the people [of Tamil Nadu].

“The Tamil Nadu State and the Tamil people in India will have to help Tamils in Sri Lanka to achieve their independence,” he said.

“Democracy gives legitimacy. If we had elected representatives from Punjab and the other territories, we can pass a resolution and that would be accepted by the world,” he said.

“But, if you try any other methods of gaining independence, the world opinion will go against you. You would be crushed not only by the State from which you want to separate, but the forces, which are operated in the world,” he said.

“Once, the American foreign policy was so great and Woodrow Wilson wanted the right of self-determination and he created Nations after First World War on the principle of nationalities. But today, America doesn’t believe in human rights, it doesn’t believe in the right of self-determination, in the right of people being the masters of their own destiny as sovereign states.

“At the moment, or even during the British period, the Hindus got their independence through Congress and the Muslims got Pakistan through the Muslim League. They did fight the elections and that was the only determining factor on expressing what you want. If the history of our sub-continent to be followed, it was the determination of the people through the elections that made their voice legitimate and acceptable to the rest of the world,” he said.

On a question on whether a policy change was possible in the Indian establishment on the question of Tamil Eelam, he said: “The theocratic State of India is very scared of helping independence movements, because it is so fragile with the Nagas, with the Kashmiris, with the Mizos, with the Tamils and with the Sikhs. If you see the periphery of India, the theocratic State over here rules all these states with the help of the Army and draconian laws, which give impunity to the Army and the police forces to commit crimes on the people. So, I don’t think that the Indian ruling class, the theocrats, they will ever help the Eezham people to separate.”

“I don’t think the attitude of the UN is helpful to freedom movements though on its charter it allows for right to self-determination and the obliteration of the death penalty and things like that. But in practice, it is going along with the rulers who commit these crimes, whether they be anywhere. The UN at this moment of time is going along with the repressive governments.

“Since the elections are near, your organizations should put up candidates who are Tamil nationalists, who want separation, sovereignty and independence. Then only can the crime of genocide perpetrated in Sri Lanka would be recognized. Like the Armenian people and the Armenian genocide, it took years and years for it to be registered in the American Congress and the Senate etc.

“So, if we want Sikh genocide to be registered in international forums, we need to have independent people in parliaments and in the legislatures to speak on this.

“Tamil and Sikh people who are represented at these so-called democratic bodies [in India] do not take up these issues.

“We want Khalistan to be an independent and sovereign Sikh State, which would be a buffer between Islamic Pakistan, Communist China and theocratic Hindu Indian State. Khalistan would ensure peace internally in South Asia, because the theocratic Hindu India, communist China and Islamic Pakistan, are deadly enemies [against each other] and a nuclear war can break out.

“What would be the battlefield for the nuclear war? It is the Sikh territories of Rajastan, Punjab, Hariyana, Chandigarh, Jammu Kashmir and Himachal.

“If a buffer State is created, the Sikhs would also be safe and the Hindus and Muslims who live here would be safe. Apart from that it would create peace in South Asia. For a plebiscite for the right of self-determination, we are in favour of an independent and sovereign state.

Further excerpts from the exchange of views follow:

“The brutality and the perpetration of genocide of the Tamil people has been so severe by the Sri Lankan government that there cannot be any reconciliation after this crime has been committed – just like it was impossible for the Jews to live inside Germany after what they went through in the era of the holocaust during the second world war and Armenia which couldn’t stay with Turkey or any other country – they have to be separated after this. The Sri Lankans have committed enormous crimes on Tamil people living there. The Tamil Nadu State and the Tamil people in India will have to help them to achieve this.

[…]

“The 13th Amendment doesn’t go as far as total independence and sovereignty. It talks about internal settlement […] I don’t agree with that. The Tamil people of Sri Lanka have to be independent. They must be the masters of their destiny after what they have gone through.”

[…]

If there are elections [under 13 Amendment], the people who are elected and who would be put as administrators or chief ministers or whatever you call that, they would become the collaborators of Sri Lanka.

[…]

“We have always been keen about the struggle of Tamil people under Pirapharan and the mobilization for freedom and separation. Our party has followed these events very closely. If you see our website, we have tabulated each and everything from time to time what has been happening in Sri Lanka and to the Tamils.

“It was under the collaboration of India under UPA-led Congress government that the Sri Lanka government was able to achieve and crush the movement for freedom by committing a genocide on the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

“And the reason was that the Congress Party believed, rightly or wrongly, it was the Tamil people, who had assassinated their leader Rajiv Gandhi. And, they had been working in many ways to have Pirapaharan and some other people extradited from Sri Lanka. Those in the Sri Lankan government wanted to ‘help’ India. But, the fact was that Pirapaharan and his movement was too powerful for the Sri Lankan government and its Army to capture him alive and hand him over to the Indians.

“So, in a plot and conspiracy with the Sri Lankan government, they first bought over the Tamil [Nadu] political leaders like Mr Karunanithy and Mr Chidamparam. Then, by bribing these Tamil leaders, they kept the people of Tamil Nadu from not helping the State movement for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

“For instance, Mr Karunanidhi and the Central Government had his daughter in an important post. Mr Raja was given a ministerial post in which they made a lot of money. Mr Chidambaram had also made a lot of money. That is how they suppressed [Tamil Nadu].

“My position is that the Tamil people would have listened in revolt in favour of what was happening to the Tamils in Sri Lanka. But, for the fact that these Tamil leaders had been ‘bought over’, this didn’t happen.”

“The Tamils constitute a separate Nation. They are a separate race. They have their separate Hindu religion. But, they are oppressed by the Brahmins, who have been priests for generations – by the Brahmanical system in India. Tamils have a separate language, separate history, they have a separate school of drama, music, art, and in the history, they have ruled their land and they have been great colonizers in South East Asia.

“And I do believe that the Tamil people should, like the Sikhs, be separated and should have their own sovereign State, like what we Sikhs are fighting for.

“So, we studied the Tamil movement very closely and have been to Tamil Nadu and have given speeches. We have spoken very freely that the Government of India rules Tamil Nadu and the Punjab and the Sikhs through collaborators, who collaborate with the Government of India in keeping the Tamils and the Sikhs subdued and not letting the nationalist feelings be turned into votes.

“Since the elections are near, your organizations, should put up candidates who are Tamil nationalists, who want separation, sovereignty and independence. Then only can the crime of genocide perpetrated in Sri Lanka would be recognized. Like the Armenian people and the Armenian genocide, it took years and years for it to be registered in the American Congress and the Senate etc.,

“So, if we want Sikh genocide to be registered in international forums, we need to have independent people in parliaments and in the legislatures to speak on this.

“Tamil and Sikh people who are represented at these so-called democratic bodies do not take up these issues.

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Clinton's rape bombshell

[TamilNet, Saturday, 03 October 2009, 00:17 GMT]

US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, chairing the United Nations Security Council meeting Wednesday, on the last day of US's turn of the rotating presidency of the 15-member body in September, on violence against women in warfare, dropped a bombshell on Sri Lanka by including Sri Lanka in the company of Congo, Sudan, and Mayanmar, saying Sri Lanka has used rape as a weapon of war [against Tamils], thereby adding another incriminating legal element to mounting woes of the Sri Lanka Government from allegations of war-crimes for slaughtering more than 20,000 Tamil civilians, and incarcerating more than 300,000 Tamils with little freedom of movement in military supervised internment camps.

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"Now, reading the headlines, one might think that the use of rape as a tactic of war only happens occasionally, or in a few places, like the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Sudan. That would be bad enough, but the reality is much worse. We’ve seen rape used as a tactic of war before in Bosnia, Burma, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere. In too many countries and in too many cases, the perpetrators of this violence are not punished, and so this impunity encourages further attacks," Ms Clinton said.

Clinton emphasized that sexual violence is "an important issue that goes to the core of our commitment to ensure the safety of the United Nations member-states and their citizens. Under the UN Charter, the 15 members of this Council bear primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. Now, satisfying that responsibility includes us to protect the lives and physical security of all people, including the women who comprise half the planet's population. This responsibility is particularly acute in circumstances where peace and stability are challenged." She said that rape "shreds the fabric that weaves us together as human beings."

Responding to Ms Clinton's statement, Sri Lanka's Defense Ministry website carried a refutation, saying "such sadistic allegations are far from the existing realities: far from the truth," and added that "there was no basis whatsoever even to suggest Sri Lankan forces had involved in such gross violence during its three-year humanitarian campaign."

"The government vehemently condemns the statement and wishes to declare that it is an irresponsible statement made deliberately to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka and also it appears to be a part of a vicious political agenda," Defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told reporters.

"But record indicates, systematic rape of Tamil women in custody and in areas under control of Security forces, and sexual abuse of LTTE women cadres caught during combat, had occured from as early as September 1996 when Krishanthy Kumarasamy, a 17-year old highschooler, was murderd after being stopped and raped at an SLA sentry point at Kaithadi, Jaffna. Horrendous videos showing Sri Lankan soldiers abusing women cadres stripped naked have routinely surfaced," said activist for a Washington-based pressure group.

Patricia Butenis US Ambassaor to Sri Lanka, responding to Sri Lanka officials demand for clarification, said in a statement, that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had not implicated any party in Sri Lanka in her speech at the UN Security Council on Wednesday when she made a reference to Sri Lanka.

“During the 26-year long war in Sri Lanka, there were allegations of rape and sexual violence, just as in other conflicts. Secretary Clinton’s statement was to raise awareness of such brutality, not to implicate specific perpetrators,” Sri Lanka local media quoted the Ambassador as saying.

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The link between maintaining international peace and security, and preventing and responding to sexual violence used as a tactic of war to target civilians was first laid out in last year's UNSC resolution 1325.

President Obama buttressed Clinton's address in a communique issued by the Whitehouse saying, "violence against women and children will not be tolerated and must be stopped. The United States places a high priority on this issue of fundamental human rights and global security...The dignity of all human beings must be respected, and their rights protected."

Commenting on the unanimous adoption of a Resolution to Combat Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict by the UN Security Council, President Obama noted that "[i]n particular, the resolution focuses on one of the most abhorrent features of modern war: the use of rape as a weapon, and other forms of sexual violence against women and children."

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Freudian motive to Sri Lanka's notoriety in rape [TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 December 2013, 00:54 GMT]
While one may expect that the word "sex" may emerge as a heavily searched word in Google, what is surprising is that Sri Lanka has created a world record for topping the list of the countries with the most number of searches for this "word" viewed by philosopher Freud as the most important in the dynamics of the psyche of humankind. Sri Lanka has excelled in demonstrating this Freudian motive even while the Rajapakse family had over two years ago banned most such web sites about sex, preventing Sri Lankans in logging into those sites. This singular achievement may also point to the inner workings of the perverted cultural mind of the Sri Lanka military which has been blamed, and enjoys immunity from criminality, for several gang rapes with bestial brutality on Tamil fighting women during the war, and Tamil civilians after the end of the war in Sri Lanka.

India had taken the second place closely behind Sri Lanka in seeking the meaning of the word sex.

A spokesperson for Tamils Against Genocide (TAG-US) commenting on Sri Lanka's position on this list, said: "It is ironic that while in Buddhist philosophy and in the Buddhism-centric vision of Sinhala Sri Lanka, sexual promiscuity is not tolerated and sex is a taboo topic in public discussions, we see that rape by Sinhala soldiers have become routine, and are protected by the ruling governments. And with the Google list we see what's foremost in the minds of Sri Lankans, and we cannot deny that Sri Lanka's top position is a likely pointer to the deterioration of traditionally valued cultural norms."

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Sri Lanka military has been accused of rapes during the course of the civil war, and during the nearly five years after the end of the war. Wikileaks exposed that even the U.S. government was aware that prostitution rings were set up by paramilitaries controlled by a sibling of Sri Lanka's President Rajapakse.

US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, chairing the United Nations Security Council meeting in October 2009, on the last day of US's turn of the rotating presidency of the 15-member body in September, on violence against women in warfare, dropped a bombshell on Sri Lanka by including Sri Lanka in the company of Congo, Sudan, and Mayanmar, saying Sri Lanka has used rape as a weapon of war [against Tamils]. (http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=30363)

Besides, extensive records maintained by TamilNet stories (see list below) indicate that the incidents of rape by Sri Lankan soldiers went unabated during the period of war.

Images of captured LTTE soldiers raped and killed, and bestial handling of dead bodies of Tamil women by Sinhala soldiers during war have deeply wounded the psyche of Tamils and this has become an insurmountable hurdle towards any approach to reconciliation, Tamil activists note.

Sigmund Freud argued that sexual oppression was one of the roots of many problems in Western and other societies. Freud believed that people's naturally strong instincts toward sexuality were repressed by people in order to meet the constraints imposed on them by civilized life. Perhaps in the vigor to seek outlets Sri Lanka beat the others in similar predicament, Sri Lanka observers speculated.

Michel Foucault, in his The History of Sexuality, neither refutes nor confirms what he calls the "repressive hypothesis." Instead, he says sexuality has become an important topic to understand and manipulate for the purpose of nation building. Through categorization of sexuality, the idea of repression was born. Are Sri Lankans, as a collective species, seeking to build a better nation in breaking the world record, if one thinks Foucault was serious with his words.

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