UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Launches a Major Assault on Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty and targets the Defence Forces that defeated the LTTE, the World’s Most Brutal Terrorist Organisation.
Posted on September 22nd, 2015
UNITED AUSTRALIANS OF SRI LANKAN ORGANISATIONS
PO BOX 4066, MULGRAVE, VICTORIA 3175, AUSTRALIA, Telephone 03-97957143
20 September 2015
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Launches a Major Assault on Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty and targets the Defence Forces that defeated the LTTE, the World’s Most Brutal Terrorist Organisation.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has released his report dated 16h September 2015 on the investigations into the incidents which took place between February 2002 and November 2011 plus ‘on going violations’ . His briefing on the report and his suggested hybrid mechanism to investigate into the said incidents and his comments such as some issues are of grave nature and country’s legal system do constitute an assault on Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and the defence forces.
The investigation of the OHCHR was based on THREE sources. (1) The report of the Panel of Experts appointed to advise the Secretary General of the UN. (2) The Channel 4 presentations of Callum Macrae and his team and (3) The petitions received by the OHCHR with regard to the purported incidents relating to war in Sri Lanka.
The report of the Panel of Experts was originally for the purpose advising the UN Secretary General and was never placed at the Human Rights Council or the General Assembly enabling Sri Lanka and other members of the UN to comprehend the contents and consequently to respond to the ‘Allegations’ collated by the Panel of Experts from ‘witnesses’ whose identity will not be known for many more years. Therefore, the conclusions or the issues discussed in the report of the Panel of Experts cannot be considered on any reasonable grounds as fair or sensible source to find fault with Sri Lanka.
The Ch 4 films, comments of Callum Mackray and his team are mainly based on the films produced to depict allegations of violations of human rights by Sri Lankan forces. According to a well- known British journalist, A.A.Gill writing on the Ch 4 video ‘killing fields’, ‘the Channel has accumulated a large number of samizdat amateur footage from mobile phones video cameras –mostly UN-ATRRIBUTED AND UNCORROBORATED. It mixes that footage with comments from unnamed sources with distorted voices and shadowed faces. It was brutal and shocking BUT IT WASN’T JOURNALISM. Not a second of this has been shot by Ch 4 : None of the eye witnesses accounts come from journalists.” Further, according to another expert there is no fool proof method to prove that the protagonists were members of the Sri Lankan defence forces.
The petition received by the OHCHR is the 3rd source which are not made available to the Council members for their study or comments. As anyone interested in the matters concerning Sri Lanka’s foreign issues, the existence of a strong and a vocal anti-Sri Lankan Lobby is a well- known factor. The highly orchestrated fronts have been actively lobbying the foreign governments and even the OHCHR to pressurize them to impose ‘punishments’ on Sri Lanka and therefore, the petitions received by the OHCHR and which were not made available to Sri Lanka or the other members of the OHCHR for verification and comments CANNOT be considered as a reliable source of evidence. Furthermore, the submissions made by several other Sri Lankan organisations, including our own, were not even acknowledged by the OHRCR.
The High Commissioner’s recommendation for a hybrid investigation based on above 3 sources more than confirms the fact that he is interested in another mechanism to fulfil the objective of influencing the final outcome by dictating the type of investigation. But, he fails to mention that Sri Lanka has already proceeded with a complete domestic investigation through its LLRC which has put out a report. There was a further report of the Commissioner for Missing Persons. The LLRC produced an exhaustive analysis plus the evidence on which the report was based including the testimony of the witnesses interviewed by the panel and it is available as a public document. Both reports confirmed that the civilian casualties should be considered as collateral damage rather that deliberate killings.
The High Commissioner and OHCHR should be bound by the UN practices to comment and if necessary to reject these reports giving reasons before recommending a further hybrid investigation.
The High Commissioner’s report has also failed to highlight the consequences of unmitigated violence and HR violations carried out by the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) including the repercussions of child conscription, ethnic cleansing of Sinhala and Muslims civilians, blowing up of civilian aircraft, vessels & buses and the assassination of political rivals including non-compliant Tamils. Other than the relatively mild criticism of the LTTE and the occasional reference to both parties, there is no attempt to assign any culpability to those (including the expatriate LTTE Diaspora) who funded its campaign of terror and the servile Tamil politicians who accepted the LTTE as the sole representatives of the Tamils and provided both overt and covert support.
The report also fails to acknowledge how the Sri Lankan forces rescued nearly 300,000 Tamil citizens who were used as human barriers, how more than 10,000 child soldiers were rescued and rehabilitated, how the IDPs were accommodated and resettled in an exemplary manner and how that the land was cleared as quickly as possible for resettlement of Tamil civilians. In many of these tasks the members of the defence forces played a key role and the High Commissioner should have posted his comments whereas he has opted to cast an aspersion on some members of the defence forces based on the unverified evidence submitted by three highly questionable and hardly reliable sources.
The Members of the OHCHR, the Sri Lankan Government including the patriotic members of the Parliament, the members of the Maha Sanga and other clergymen, the members of the civil society must reject the High Commissioners report which is a clear assault on the sovereignty of Sri Lanka, a member nation of the UN, and its defence forces who sacrificed a great deal to safeguard the nation.
A hybrid investigation based both on erroneous procedural as well as substantive grounds is only a mechanism for foreign intervention and should not be agreed to, especially when the reports of several Sri Lankan investigation and the Paranagama Commission reports are available for the information of the OCHR and the UN.
Ranjith Soysa
(Coordinator)
Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (Victoria)
Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (NSW)
Western Australia Society for Peace, Unity and Rehabilitation in Sri Lanka (WA)
Veera Parakramabahu Foundation Inc. (NSW)
Sri Lankans Against Terrorism (NSW).
Sinhala Cultural Association (ACT)
Viru Daru Diriya Fund (Victoria)
September 22nd, 2015 at 7:17 am
Please see Mahinda’s full statement on the UN report copied from Helabima.com.
http://www.helabima.lk/read.php?as=9564&locationid=1442931072
September 22nd, 2015 at 1:45 pm
THANK YOU~ A VERY !!WELL COMPILED ITEM’
But how did the UN high Commissioner become so bold in his utterances ?
Is there reason to believe that info given as well as some vital info withheld was from present Government sources.
If this be the case those responsible are treasonous traitors from within and need to be hung by their vitals.
News is already breaking that this is indeed the case.
September 22nd, 2015 at 4:16 pm
ALL THESE BUGGERS ARE SERVILE TO THE TAMILS DIASPORA, WHO FINANCE THEM WELL TO SHOUT AS LOUD AS THEY CAN. SORRY TO TELL, THAT MAHINDA DID NOT CONTROL THESE BUGGERS WHEN HE COULD. HE DID NOT VOID THE INDO SRILANKA ACCORD WITH THE 13TH WHEN HE COULD HAVE DONE IT WITH HIS 2/3rd MAJORITY. ACTUALLY WE ARE NOT FIGHTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS. WE ARE FIGHTING A HIDDEN INVISIBLE TAMIL TERRORISTS DIASPORA FORCE, WITH ENOUGH MONEY IN THE WORLD, EVEN TO BUY ROYALTY. THERE HAS TO BE A LEGAL PLAN TO FIGHT THIS TO AN END. THE PROBLEM HAS BECOME SO MALIGNANT, AND IS CANCEROUS. A PHYSICIAN CANNOT HELP. IT HAS TO BE SURGERY.
September 23rd, 2015 at 1:47 am
We have waited far too long on this issue without properly internationalising it. There must be a way to get the attention of ‘well meaning’ people and countries and institutions for the abomination of justice at the hands of the UN and UNHCR. It is happening in Sri Lanka today and it could be the turn of another innocent country next. Already the march of the Christian West has made life impossible in many victim countries. Anywhere their interests lay they have not wasted any time in laying to waste countries and their peoples. The migrant and refugee crisis Europe is experiencing is the latest of their exploits the perpetrators are refusing to accept responsibility for.
It is imperative that China and Russia and other nations such as Pakistan, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia and countries in Africa and Latin America are informed of the truth.
Sri Lanka’s case is failing simply by weak representation, default and wilful negligence. Sri Lanka’s case must be Internationalised giving facts and figures of what really took place, not only during the last few weeks of the Tamil Racist War, but during the whole of 30 years or at least going as far as the infamous Vadukkoddai Declaration. It must focus on the roles played by India, Christian West, Christian Churches and of course their running dogs the Racist Tamils.
September 23rd, 2015 at 1:54 pm
SW,
It has to be surgery. Politicians CANNOT save SL. They will only stuff things up further.