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AI Statement on LTTE todayRavi Randeniya Ottawa, Canada10 July 2007 To Irene Khan Dear Ms Khan Your public statement - AI Index: ASA 37/017/2007 (Public), News Service No: 131, 10 July 2007, titled Sri Lanka: Amnesty International urges LTTE to live up to its pledge to end child recruitment is a sham. Your statement is a lip service to the world at large to show that you are concerned about the LTTE’s child soldiers. Did you also know that right now those very child soldiers are slaughtered in the battlefields of Sri Lanka? But I am curious to know if you are that serious about seeking justice to these kids did you deliver this statement to the LTTE HQ, Eelam House, 202 Long Lane, London or had meetings with these terrorists? Of course not. According to your own charter they are not a government to charge with any wrong doing to bring sufficient publicity and pressure to bear. However, your clowns with your blessings, chose to exhibits their skills at the recently concluded World Cup of Cricket in the Caribbean by staging “Cricket Ball” signing circus to draw attention to the Sri Lankan government (Not to the LTTE) which is under siege by these very terrorists. But the LTTE was spared of this acrimony for reasons best know to the AI. When terrorists conduct their daily business of creating mayhem and carnage in civil societies, the democratically elected governments like in the UK are compelled to act to defeat them whether they are at home or in places like Afghanistan. In the eyes of many AI appears to be cozy with this approach regardless of the casualties of terror war. On that lets see, the NATO forces are engaged in chasing the notorious Al Quieda and the Taliban because they are (a) “terrorists” and (b) they are a threat to the Western civilization. In the course of NATO’s armed conflicts with these foes we hear colossal loss of Afghani civilian casualties which prompted even the President Karzai to make public denunciations of the NATO’s conduct and their reckless disregard to the safety of the Afghani population. It appears to me that none of these innocent deaths seems to get AI’s attention but have plenty of time to stage a circus in the Caribbean against a developing nation fighting the same mindset of terrorists that the NATO is after in Afghanistan. I could not find a single statement on this on your website damming the NATO actions on civilians. I was one an AI member, but today I am sicken to the stomach at your double stands when dealing with HR violations by the Western nations in pursuit of terrorists and by developing nations doing the same. AI’s donations come mostly from these Western nations so there is obviously the need for the AI to feel warm and fuzzy instead of attacking the nations that are weak and vulnerable. Yours truly,
Ravi Randeniya
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