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found \u0026quot;credible allegations of war crimes \u0026amp; crimes against humanity\u0026quot; committed in Sri Lanka. \nSri Lanka\u0026#39;s criminal justice system have failed to deliver justice.\nInternational laws were blatantly violated.  \nBut Ban Ki moon and the UN security council are silent and inactive."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/-\/UN?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=5"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/UN"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/-\/UN\/-\/UN?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=6\u0026max-results=5"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hr Alert"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15745495003387147010"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"28","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEicPjYmYc9kx_cWeQ1hpAS0N8jnhNUp2sAIO-Qd1DD15RBk8-RMME_FFs9rfmDm9btSkNruwV5paba4oQ05f0DzCd1VD1LOLvV8O8Xgz-DoiE10tBHK3yW_dGs_GCVWRw\/s220\/cry.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"14"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564570884155420964.post-469996365563247694"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-23T05:49:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-23T06:03:21.960-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Channel 4 News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Genocide"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Human Rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Human Rights Council"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sri Lanka"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sri Lankan President"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tamil Eelam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UN"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UNHRC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vanni Massacre"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War Crimes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"war criminals"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - Channel4 News Documentary"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EJon Snow presents \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/sri-lankas-killing-fields\/4od#3200170\"\u003Ea forensic investigation\u003C\/a\u003E into the final weeks of  the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka  and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith disturbing and  distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the  shelling of civilians the programme features devastating new video  evidence of war crimes - some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has  ever broadcast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECaptured on mobile phones, both by Tamils under  attack and government soldiers as war trophies, the disturbing footage  shows: the extra-judicial executions of prisoners; the aftermath of  targeted shelling of civilian camps; and dead female Tamil fighters who  appear to have been raped or sexually assaulted, abused and murdered. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe  film is made and broadcast as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon faces  growing criticism for refusing to launch an investigation into 'credible  allegations' that Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes during the  closing weeks of the bloody conflict with the Tamil Tigers. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn  April 2011, Ban Ki-moon published a report by a UN-appointed panel of  experts, which concluded that as many as 40,000 people were killed in  the final weeks of the war between the Tamil Tigers and government  forces. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt called for the creation of an international mechanism  to investigate alleged violations of international humanitarian law and  international human rights law committed by government forces and the  Tamil Tigers during that time. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis film provides powerful  evidence that will lend new urgency to the panel's call for an  international inquiry to be mounted, including harrowing interviews with  eye-witnesses, new photographic stills, official Sri Lankan army video  footage, and satellite imagery. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso examined in the film are  some of the horrific atrocities carried out by the Tamil Tigers, who  used civilians as human shields. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChannel 4 News has consistently  reported on the bloody denouement of Sri Lanka's civil war. Sri Lanka's  Killing Fields presents a further damning account of the actions of Sri  Lankan forces, in a war that the government still insists was conducted  with a policy of Zero Civilian Casualties. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe film raises  serious questions about the consequences if the UN fails to act, not  only with respect to Sri Lanka but also to future violations of  international law.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYou can follow the programme on Twitter using \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23Killingfields\"\u003E#KillingFields\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESri  Lanka's Killing Fields will be shown to MPs and parliamentary officials  at a special showing in the House of Commons next week. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you  wish to contact your MP directly on this or any other matter you can go  to Theyworkforyou.com (you can click on the link at the left hand side  of this page) to find out who your representative is and how to contact  them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003Etrailer \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e_p1TfTguW0\" width=\"560\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003Cb\u003E \u003C\/b\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/sri-lankas-killing-fields\/4od#3200170\"\u003EViewers, please watch this documentary video in Channel 4 News website, found in this link\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003Eor \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003EChannel4News youtube\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/XADVagA2MUk\" width=\"560\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eor here\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nEYzH2yJkdg\" width=\"560\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003ERaise your voice for the Tamils killed in Vanni Massacre! \nAct NOW to liberate the Tamil civilians from the barbed wire camps in Sri Lanka!\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/feeds\/469996365563247694\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/sri-lankas-killing-fields-channel4-news.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/469996365563247694"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/469996365563247694"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/sri-lankas-killing-fields-channel4-news.html","title":"Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - Channel4 News Documentary"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hr Alert"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15745495003387147010"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"28","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEicPjYmYc9kx_cWeQ1hpAS0N8jnhNUp2sAIO-Qd1DD15RBk8-RMME_FFs9rfmDm9btSkNruwV5paba4oQ05f0DzCd1VD1LOLvV8O8Xgz-DoiE10tBHK3yW_dGs_GCVWRw\/s220\/cry.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/e_p1TfTguW0\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564570884155420964.post-610203111666875551"},"published":{"$t":"2009-06-05T14:41:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-08-14T03:35:07.649-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barbed Wire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Detention Camps"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Genocide"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Human Rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sri Lanka"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tamil Eelam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UN"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UNHRC"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vanni Massacre"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War Crimes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"300,000 Tamils in concentration camps - MIA"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"[\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.tamilnet.com\/art.html?catid=13\u0026amp;artid=29531\"\u003ETamilNet\u003C\/a\u003E, Friday, 05 June 2009, 12:25 GMT]\u003Cbr \/\u003EOscar and Grammy award nominee, Jaffna born music phenom, Maya Arulpragasam (MIA) who used to live in Sri Lanka and experienced the war, told Sky News: \"Three hundred thousand people have been put into concentration camps and they (the authorities) have taken all the rights away from these people. They have no food and access to the media and aid. No freedom of speech or freedom of press,\" and said Britain and international governments should step in and help. MIA was speaking in support of Ms Jananayagam who contested the European Parliament elections held Thursday. The results are expected to be released Sunday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFull text of the article follows:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESinger MIA has called on the EU to help hundreds of thousands of Tamils she says were put in \"concentration camps\" following the defeat by the Sri Lankan army.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe star, who lives in the UK but is of Tamil origin, has given her support on Twitter to Jan Jananayagam, an independent British candidate in the current European elections.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMs Jananayagam has been been lobbying the British government to help stop the war in Sri Lanka.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tamil Tiger rebels were defeated last month after a conflict lasting about 30 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMIA, who used to live in Sri Lanka and experienced the war, told Sky News: \"Three hundred thousand people have been put into concentration camps and they (the authorities) have taken all the rights away from these people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"They have no food and access to the media and aid. No freedom of speech or freedom of press.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe said the European council has been \"undecided on the issue\" and she said Britain and other international governments should step in and help.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMIA, real name Mathangi Arulpragasam, said Ms Jananayagam was \"the first person that I've seen in politics who can actually raise questions and be about the people\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe added: \"Nothing's getting done about the people. In Sri Lanka, we've seen thousands of people getting killed in front of eyes on television and on the internet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If it happened anywhere else, we would be so much more active.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMIA went on: \"There's still no genuine representative for the Tamil people that has stepped forward. That's why Ms Jananayagam's really important because it's about getting to hear those stories about the Tamil people which we're not.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We're still getting stories from the Sri Lankan governent fed to us. We're not celebrating, we're not in the streets setting off firecrackers and having a great time and celebrating the end of a war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We still don't have answers about these people that are stuck in the barbed wire fences. They're dying of diseases. Some 60% of the population in these camps are wounded and have no medical attention.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe said Europe was divided and \"we need a representative in there\" to help with the civil rights of the Tamil people.\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003ERaise your voice for the Tamils killed in Vanni Massacre! \nAct NOW to liberate the Tamil civilians from the barbed wire camps in Sri Lanka!\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/feeds\/610203111666875551\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/300000-tamils-in-concentration-camps.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/610203111666875551"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/610203111666875551"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/300000-tamils-in-concentration-camps.html","title":"300,000 Tamils in concentration camps - MIA"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hr Alert"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15745495003387147010"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"28","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEicPjYmYc9kx_cWeQ1hpAS0N8jnhNUp2sAIO-Qd1DD15RBk8-RMME_FFs9rfmDm9btSkNruwV5paba4oQ05f0DzCd1VD1LOLvV8O8Xgz-DoiE10tBHK3yW_dGs_GCVWRw\/s220\/cry.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564570884155420964.post-2710804776066469531"},"published":{"$t":"2009-06-05T14:24:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-08-14T03:33:49.344-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barbed Wire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Detention Camps"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Disappeared"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Human Rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sri Lanka"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tamil Eelam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UN"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vanni Massacre"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War Crimes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"China on the rise once more across the East"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight:bold;\"\u003EIf any more evidence of China's steady ascent towards Asian regional dominance was needed, the climax of Sri Lanka's war has provided the proof.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy David Blair, Diplomatic Editor\u003Cbr \/\u003EPublished: 7:22PM BST 19 May 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/china\/5350478\/China-on-the-rise-once-more-across-the-East.html\"\u003ETelegraph UK\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn ally of Beijing has fought a bitterly controversial conflict to a final victory, while shrugging off international protests along the way. India, the other Asian giant, is only 50 miles from Sri Lanka across the waters of the Palk Straits, yet it has been shown to have far less influence on its neighbour than China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThrough a combination of strategic investments in seaports and pipelines, along with direct financial and military support for friendly governments, China is building a web of influence across South Asia. Many of Beijing's immensely ambitious projects are years away from fruition, yet the repercussions of these ventures are already being felt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Sri Lanka, Beijing began constructing a port in Hambantota in 2007 and the scheme is scheduled for completion in 2022. This forms the basis of China's alliance with President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government and helps explain the diplomatic support Beijing gave Sri Lanka during the war against the Tamil Tigers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe official line is that Hambantota is only a \"commercial\" trading venture and the facility will handle civilian shipping and nothing else. \"Any attempt to distort the facts would be invalid,\" said Ma Zhaoxu, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the appearance of a new Chinese port on Sri Lanka's southern coast would allow Beijing the option of using the facility as a naval base in the future. Other projects under way at strategic points across the Indian Ocean raise the same possibility.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina is building another port at Gwadar on the Pakistani coast and at Kyauk Phyu on Burma's island of Ramree. Taken together, these and other facilities may allow China to extend its growing naval strength well beyond its traditional coastal waters and into the Indian Ocean. It would mark a crucial stage in the country's rise to become Asia's hegemonic power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"China is marching towards regional dominance and that brings it into conflict with India on one flank and Japan on the other,\" said Kerry Brown, a senior fellow at the Asian programme of the Chatham House think tank. \"It will at some point become much more active as a military power in the region.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina's ambitions are of deep concern to its Asian rivals, especially India which shares a 2,100-mile disputed border with its neighbour. Countries as far away as Australia have also shown they are worried. Kevin Rudd's government in Canberra is hugely expanding the Australian navy with the unspoken aim of balancing China's growing strength.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese fears may, however, be exaggerated. China is bidding to become Asia's foremost power, but not a global behemoth to rival the United States. Moreover, all the evidence suggests that its prime aim is securing its economic growth and domestic stability.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The Chinese are not seeking conflict. They are seeking a stable international environment within which they can continue their economic development,\" said Mr Brown. \"The key imperative is to preserve internal security within China.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no sign of China becoming an overtly threatening, expansionist power. Far from having designs on other countries' territory, China has resolved all border disputes with 12 of its 14 neighbours. In the case of Russia, where the People's Liberation Army fought bloody frontier skirmishes in the 1960s, and Vietnam, where Chinese forces waged a full scale border war in 1979, Beijing chose to make big concessions and give away large areas it had previously claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf a future Chinese government decides to use the string of new ports as naval bases, this does not necessarily mean Beijing is out to intimidate its neighbours and overawe the region.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead, China's economy is largely dependent on energy supplies brought from the Middle East and Africa along vital Indian Ocean shipping lanes. Guaranteeing the safety of these arteries is an understandable aim and does not, of itself, show an aggressive intention.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn particular, China imports about 80 per cent of its oil through the Strait of Malacca, where the Indian Ocean joins the Pacific. President Hu Jintao has called this dependence the \"Malacca Dilemma\" and China's naval planning seems geared towards ensuring this passage remains open, while developing alternative routes where possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhatever the motives behind the inexorable extension of China's influence in Asia, however, the balance of global power has already changed dramatically.\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003ERaise your voice for the Tamils killed in Vanni Massacre! \nAct NOW to liberate the Tamil civilians from the barbed wire camps in Sri Lanka!\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2710804776066469531\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/china-on-rise-once-more-across-east.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/2710804776066469531"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/2710804776066469531"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/china-on-rise-once-more-across-east.html","title":"China on the rise once more across the East"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hr Alert"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15745495003387147010"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"28","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEicPjYmYc9kx_cWeQ1hpAS0N8jnhNUp2sAIO-Qd1DD15RBk8-RMME_FFs9rfmDm9btSkNruwV5paba4oQ05f0DzCd1VD1LOLvV8O8Xgz-DoiE10tBHK3yW_dGs_GCVWRw\/s220\/cry.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564570884155420964.post-3577660574812599505"},"published":{"$t":"2009-06-05T13:56:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-08-14T03:34:35.246-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Genocide"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Human Rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"India"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sri Lanka"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tamil Eelam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UN"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vanni Massacre"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Video"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War Crimes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tamil doctors, who served inside safe zone placed on trial"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Friday, 05 June 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe three doctors treating patients inside the no-fire zone at very dire situation and openly speaking about shelling civilian areas and civilian casualities during the conflict between government forces and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are expected to be placed on trial.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe minister has told BBC that the doctors must be produced in court every month while investigations proceed pending possible charges. The investigation could last up to a year, but there might be extensions to that, he has added. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe three doctors who are detained by CID, Colombo gave detailed reports on shelling in civilian areas during the last days of the conflict between government forces and the LTTE. The Sri Lankan government has accused the medical professionals of colluding with the rebels.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the absence of international media and aid agencies the three doctors were the most reliable sources for information to outside world, enen UN was depended on them. It is learnt that local offices at UN and ICRC gave assurance for their safety to work inside safe zone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EABC, Australia has interviewd the Sri Lankan Minister of Human Rights and Disaster Management and Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights regarding the detention of these three doctors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EListen to ABC interview\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESri Lanka's Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe told ABC radio that the doctors were making false accusations about government forces shelling civilians. There was no shelling on the part of the government forces, because we had gone on record at the highest level to say that we would not resort to shelling, he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe further accused them of being part of conspiracy, he said \"these doctors were inside the no fire zone, which was totally under the control of the LTTE and we believe the doctors were used or maybe they were part of that whole conspiracy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn an interview with BBC World TV, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohita Bogollagama said that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had full access to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr Bogollagama said to BBC that the issue was whether the pair had been looking after civilians or whether they had been used by the rebels \"for other purposes\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief praised them as 'heroic,' but now the same doctors languishing in detention and \"What is the heroic act the doctors have done in terms of supporting the Tamil Tigers agenda?\" the Minister has asked BBC. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMinister Mahinda Samarasinghe told the BBC they are being detained at the Criminal Investigation Department on \"reasonable suspicion of collaboration with the LTTE\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I don't know what the investigations would reveal but maybe they were even part of that whole conspiracy to put forward this notion that government forces were shelling and targeting hospitals and indiscriminately targeting civilians as a result of the shelling,\" he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe doctors are expected to be produced in courts and give their confession.\u003Cbr \/\u003EMinister said \"I can't reveal all the details of the confessions [by the doctors], but you will see when they appear in court,\" indicating that the doctors were likely to retract accusations that government forces were responsible for the shelling. \"There was a lot publicity that we launched an attack on a hospital. That publicity was given due to the three doctors,\" Samarasinghe said. \"Now they are in the custody of the CID, under detention orders. Soon they will be produced in court. You will hear what really happened.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder Sri Lanka's emergency laws and said the doctors could be held in detention for up to a year. Under Sri Lanka's emergency laws, they must be produced in court once a month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe situation has drawn and angry response from human rights groups. Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, Susannah Sirkin in an interview to ABC said the government must release the men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESirkin said this is really an appaling effort to suppress information in a conflict and also basically to deny mediacal doctors the ethical duty they have as professionals to prevent and limit the suffering of patients in their care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Physicians for human rights has praised the courage of the three Sri Lankans and said they were only doing their jobs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It is a doctor's duty to speak out to protect their patients. These physicians were doing nothing more than following the hypocaratic oath and the Geneva conventions,\" she has told ABC radio.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe former conflict zone in the north of the country is still tightly controlled. Journalists are only able to visit the displacement camps with the approval and supervision of the Sri Lankan military. The civilians in the camps are unable to leave. The true death toll from the final battles of the war, remains unknown.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESeparately, Sri Lanka's foreign secretary, Palitha Kohona, has been speaking of the government-run camps where more than 250,000 Tamils from the war zone are detained.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBBC noted him saying, everyone there had to be carefully screened, it was \"quite likely\" that even many elderly people were \"with the LTTE, at least mentally\".\u003Cbr \/\u003ENews edited by Tamil National [ editor@tamilnational.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. 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\nAct NOW to liberate the Tamil civilians from the barbed wire camps in Sri Lanka!\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3577660574812599505\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/tamil-doctors-who-served-inside-safe.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/3577660574812599505"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/3577660574812599505"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/tamil-doctors-who-served-inside-safe.html","title":"Tamil doctors, who served inside safe zone placed on trial"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hr Alert"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15745495003387147010"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"28","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEicPjYmYc9kx_cWeQ1hpAS0N8jnhNUp2sAIO-Qd1DD15RBk8-RMME_FFs9rfmDm9btSkNruwV5paba4oQ05f0DzCd1VD1LOLvV8O8Xgz-DoiE10tBHK3yW_dGs_GCVWRw\/s220\/cry.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4564570884155420964.post-960915399754862160"},"published":{"$t":"2009-06-05T13:50:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-08-14T03:33:27.634-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barbed Wire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Detention Camps"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Disappeared"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Human Rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Human Rights Council"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sri Lanka"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tamil Eelam"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"UN"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Vanni Massacre"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War Crimes"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Genocide in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"post-by\"\u003EJune 4th, 2009 Posted by: Suren Surendiran\u003Cbr \/\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate-uk\/author\/surensurendiran\/\"\u003EReuters\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESuren Surendiran is the spokesman for the British Tamils Forum. The opinions expressed are his own. -\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe news that over 20,000 innocent civilians were killed by the military onslaught of the Sri Lankan army has shocked the world, but not world leaders like President Obama, Prime Minister Brown, President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel. For, they knew exactly what was going to happen and what is happening now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow right Albert Einstein was when he said, “The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of those who are evil but because of those who don’t do anything about it”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“When genocide is happening,” said candidate Obama, so eloquently during the second presidential debate, “when ethnic cleansing is happening somewhere around the world and we stand idly by, that diminishes us.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe United Nations has yet again proved under the current leadership, that it is an ineffective organisation in conflict resolution and prevention of genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is a great shame for India to have had a hand in the mass killings of Tamils. The other countries that had helped Sri Lanka militarily do not have the best human rights record in the world and their moral values proved to be questionable. India produced the greatest of men on earth, the great Mahatma Gandhi.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe politicians who do not follow Gandhian principles are not worthy to hang his photograph in their place of work. Mahinda Rajapaksa has admitted that he fought India’s war, but as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces and Executive President of the country, he is the one who would be facing the War Crimes Tribunal, even if he pleads insanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe U.S., the EU and other forward thinking democracies, should use their financial leverage and force an independent investigation on the Sri Lankan government for war crimes. The resolution passed in the United Nations Human Rights Council on 27 May to allow Sri Lanka to investigate itself is a laughing matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Sri Lankan economy is in the doldrums because of mismanagement, disproportionate military spend and corruption after Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government came into power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe U.S. and Western governments, having stood idly by when the massacre of innocent civilians by the Sri Lankan State took place, could now show the world that they are taking some action against the perpetrators. This should take the form of punitive economic measures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe U.S. Secretary of State has indicated that the IMF loan for nearly $2 billion would be stopped or delayed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe EU is known to be considering the withdrawal of GSP Plus concession worth nearly $2 billion subject to investigation into Sri Lankan government’s human rights abuses. Economic sanctions and curtailment of bi-lateral trade should also play a part. The Commonwealth should suspend Sri Lanka’s membership subject to independent international investigation into war crimes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETamils in Sri Lanka have been discriminated by successive governments since independence in 1948. It is widely acknowledged that what is happening in Sri Lanka is genocide. The genocide of a people means that the security of those people cannot be left to the perpetrating government itself. It then follows that some form of separation and self determination for the Tamils in the long term is unavoidable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is about time for those who said “never again” in Darfur, to take their “responsibility to protect” seriously and substantiate their words with immediate firm action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJustice delayed is justice denied!\u003Cdiv class=\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003ERaise your voice for the Tamils killed in Vanni Massacre! \nAct NOW to liberate the Tamil civilians from the barbed wire camps in Sri Lanka!\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/feeds\/960915399754862160\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/genocide-in-sri-lanka.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/960915399754862160"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/4564570884155420964\/posts\/default\/960915399754862160"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/vannimassacre.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/genocide-in-sri-lanka.html","title":"Genocide in Sri Lanka"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"hr Alert"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/15745495003387147010"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"28","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEicPjYmYc9kx_cWeQ1hpAS0N8jnhNUp2sAIO-Qd1DD15RBk8-RMME_FFs9rfmDm9btSkNruwV5paba4oQ05f0DzCd1VD1LOLvV8O8Xgz-DoiE10tBHK3yW_dGs_GCVWRw\/s220\/cry.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});