{"id":111793,"date":"2021-02-19T00:17:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T06:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111793"},"modified":"2021-02-17T22:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:16:20","slug":"retirement-opportunities-against-sri-lanka-stephen-rapp-ramsey-clark-yasmin-sooka-navi-pillay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/19\/retirement-opportunities-against-sri-lanka-stephen-rapp-ramsey-clark-yasmin-sooka-navi-pillay\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement Opportunities against Sri Lanka: Stephen Rapp, Ramsey Clark, Yasmin Sooka & Navi Pillay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We have 4 international figures serving in the international \u2018justice & world peace\u2019 system now closely associated with the TGTE. Ramsey Clark\u2019s association with LTTE goes back to 1996, Stephen Rapp after retiring is now buddy buddy with TGTE so much so that he remembers in 2021 the former Sri Lankan defense secretary and present President of Sri Lanka telling him that he killed surrendered LTTE leaders in 2009. I killed them, I killed them, I killed them\u201d are supposed to be the lines Rapp was told and the 72year old lawyer remembers this only in 2021 (7 years later) Mind boggling as to what else he has forgotten! Better see a doctor for dementia! Then we have a EU employee who is supposed to be paid to look into South African affairs but is 24\u00d77 preoccupied with Sri Lanka, for someone who has never travelled to Sri Lanka, what drives Yasmin Sooka\u2019s focus on Sri Lanka is equally mind boggling. Then there is Navi Pillay former UNHRC head now appearing on Mullaivaikkal Memorials! The four examples, highlight a clear conflict of interest, as all four are clearly linked to a party to the conflict and certainly raises their bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramsey Clark was US Attorney General in 1967.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramsey Clark\u2019s association with LTTE is a long one. The same year 1997 that US designated LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization, LTTE hired Ramsey Clark to defend LTTE. Ramsey Clark was a former Attorney General under President Carter. LTTE also hired Prof. Richard Falk (Princeton University) & Prof. David Cole (Georgetown University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nhttps:\/\/www.sangam.org\/NEWSEXTRA\/Challenge.htm\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The judgement was given in 1999 \u2013 United States replies that a court cannot make the determination the LTTE wants because recognizing foreign states is solely entrusted to the political branches, and the United States has not recognized the LTTE. Who is the sovereign, de jure or de facto, of a territory, is not a judicial, but a political question, the determination of which by the legislative and executive departments of any government conclusively binds the judges, as well as all other officers, citizens, and subjects of that government.\u201d <\/strong>Jones v. United States<\/em>, 137 U.S. 202<\/a>, 212-13, 11 S.Ct. 80, 34 L.Ed. 691 (1890).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2010, a year after LTTE defeat, Prabakaran\u2019s legal advisor sets up TGTE and appoints himself its Prime Minister. This event held at New Yorks UN Plaza hotel was attended by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sinhala\/news\/story\/2010\/10\/printable\/101003_tgte_government\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In 2012, Ramsey Clark a former US Attorney General pays glowing tribute to Prabakaran<\/p>\n\n\n\n

his achievements for the Tamil\u2019s are legendary\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

he took up arms to free the Tamils of Sri Lanka\u201d   <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prapakaran moved from military action to a difficult diplomatic cease fire, now approaching the beginning of its fourth year, in which he revealed skills as a statesman that equal his skills as a soldier\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earning international support and with the solid backing of the Tamil population manifested in the April 2004 elections\u201d<\/em><\/strong>(reconfirms TNA = LTTE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prapakaran A Skilful Statesman -Ramsey Clark<\/a><\/blockquote>