{"id":151853,"date":"2025-09-07T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151853"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:19:57","slug":"unhrc-and-tamil-child-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/09\/07\/unhrc-and-tamil-child-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHRC and Tamil Child Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) 2066 Kings Grove Crescent .\u00a0 Ottawa . Ontario . K1J 6G1 .Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

7 September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Volker Turk
UN High Commissioner Human Rights (UNHRC)
Palais Wilson
52 Rue des Paquis
CH1 201, Geneva
Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear High Commissioner Volker Turk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

       Re: What was gained in Human Rights by the end<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     of the Tamil Tiger Terrorist separatist Eelam war in Sri Lanka,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     misses the UNHRC\u2019s  Medallion Honour radar.  Not Good!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was missed by the past High Commissioners, Navanathem Pillay, Zeld Ra\u2019ad Al Hussain and Michelle Bachlet, I sincerely hope that you will correct<\/p>\n\n\n\n

during your term as the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what it is that you all  at UNHRC cannot deny as Fact that with the jaundiced eagerness to label the War winning Sri Lankan armed forces that kicked the butts of the International darlings of Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil Tiger terrorism who were hell-bent to divide the island into two, calling the Sinhalese -Mothers Kkaki-angels,<\/em><\/strong>  criminals.  You at UNHRC missed to honour the Sri Lankan armed forces of another amazing act of Human Rights by providing the Tamil children a life of freedom,who otherwise would have been abducted from homes and schools, and snuffed-dead as Tamil child soldiers..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was ugly and brutal on your part at UNHRC not to honour every soldier with a Medallion of Honour of Human Rights<\/em><\/strong> pinned  on their khaki, blue serge and navy-white uniforms as the Tamil children said in chorus,  at the end of the Eelam War on 19, May 2009:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brother and Sister soldier<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will no longer be a forced child soldier<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will no longer have to hold a Kalashnikov,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will no longer have to shoot that AK47,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and I don\u2019t have to kill to survive.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can now return home<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To embrace my Amma and Appa.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for making me\u2026FREE.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you\u2026thank you\u2026thank you<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To all you members of the <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka Armed Forces.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor will we have another poet talk to you at UNHRC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in rhyme as Asoka Weerasinghe did for you all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to comprehend what  we went through in our hearts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and minds as Tamil children of the North of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This corpse speaks to me<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still warm and the mouth foams<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his mother\u2019s milk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A medallion of a misplaced<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

courage of drying blood<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is stuck to his chest<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where a bullet had pierced<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the assault cracking dark.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am tired carrying<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around your mother\u2019s tears<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washed with her breast milk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which were your afternoon feed,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I see all around you clothes strewn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hastily like poppy-chested flowers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With eyes of executed children.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The naked truth is that you<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are a Tamil  Tiger\u201d terrorist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of a war of merciless adult hearts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All safe in jungle bunkers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marching out the Baby Brigade<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To line up as cannon fodder.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ferris wheel of my eyeballs <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

spit out fireworks to light<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up the jungle of stacked match-box coffins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To solicit a late embrace from your Mother<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you become another number<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the catechism of our Jaffna children.,\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (from Tears for my Roots <\/em><\/strong>by Asoka Weerasinghe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ask you Volker Turk stop trying to punish the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lankan Sinhalese Mothers\u2019 Brigade who  guard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with broom-sticks and ikle brooms their Khaki , Blue Serge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and Navy-white Angels\u201d, who gave them their school<\/p>\n\n\n\n

going children as a whole, and not in plywood caskets as puzzles of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

heads, limbs, blood-clotted flesh, having him\/her blown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to pieces by a Tamil Tiger Claymore mine on their way home from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t you see it, Volker?   Little wonder why the Republican Nikki Haley said that you lot at UNHRC are a cesspool of political bias, and a self serving body that makes a mockery of human rights,.\u201d  <\/strong> How true\u2026how true!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volker, what did the UNHRC do to save these Tamil kids being abducted and forcibly recruited as child soldiers by the Tamil Tiger terrorists.   You all did sweet nothing.  Right!  But the brave Sri Lankan men in Khaki, blue serge and Navy white gave them the second chance to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you all have the gall and temerity to punish the Sri Lankan Mother\u2019s \u2018khaki angels\u2019 who gave the Tamils kid-boys and girls their freedom.  Shish!  What Tosh, Volker!   What saucers of  smelly Gunusskoarl<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you will show us Sri Lankans, that your conscience holds a wealth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of Austrian honesty when dealing with Sri Lanka and not maintaining one-sided narratives, legitimizing Tamil Tiger terrorists propaganda while sidelineing Sri Lanka\u2019s amazing Human Rights achievements, as did your past Commissioners Pillay, Zeid and Bachelet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You ignore the amazing  acts by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces like giving back<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20.5 million of their people their right-to-life\u201d <\/strong>which was hijacked for 30-bloody<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years by the Tamil Tiger terrorists\u2026..How can you ignore the amazing act of Human rights by the Sri Lankan soldiers rescuing 295,873 and who were NOT bumped off by the Sri Lankan armed forces, but housed them in a White Tent City, and sustained by feeding them, a million meals a days – breakfasts, lunches and dinners.   How could you ignore such Classic war textbook Acts of Human Rights. And what do they get for their gallantry according  to the grandiose scheme of the UNHRC?,  Eleven (11) UNHRC Resolutions seeking to punish Sri Lanka. What a bunch of cesspool niggardly, putrid International Bullies! That\u2019is what you are\u2026and Nikki Haley got it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you,  Volker Turk, as an honest Austrian, fail to recognize the Sri Lankan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armed Forces Amazing Glorious Human Rights Acts\u2026 you would only insult your good, and honest Austrian people.  And I will not hesitate to Curse you with a rubbishing word\u2026\u201dBoo!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There you are Volker, Asoka Weerasinghe, a Sri Lankan-Canadian has spoken from his heart.  You lot who are gung-ho, wanting to punish the gallant Sri Lankan soldiers, do not  deserve any kinder words as a Sri Lankan Diplomat would do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warmly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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