{"id":47059,"date":"2015-08-16T02:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T09:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=47059"},"modified":"2015-08-16T02:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T09:50:23","slug":"quick-action-is-needed-for-immediate-follow-up-u-s-clears-sri-lanka-of-civilian-deaths-faults-tiger-human-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/16\/quick-action-is-needed-for-immediate-follow-up-u-s-clears-sri-lanka-of-civilian-deaths-faults-tiger-human-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"QUICK ACTION IS NEEDED FOR IMMEDIATE FOLLOW UP –\u00a0 U.S. clears Sri Lanka of civilian deaths: Faults Tiger human shield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Lankan American<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The response to this and the follow up action required of the Sri Lanka Government should be high on the agenda.\u00a0 They should not drop the ball because as Daya Gamage states, this is a matter of Sri Lanka\u2019s integrity and the unprecedented downgrading of it as a country based on the LTTE lobby with deceit.<\/p>\n

May be some capable Patriotic Sri Lankans should begin to follow up and do what is necessary to prevail on the Government to follow through.<\/p>\n

The Government of Sri Lanka needs to give serious note of the interpretations, determinations and policy declarations of the Government of the United States on the law of war in the Department of Defense\u2019 Law of War Manual to frustrate the efforts of the United States aimed at making Sri Lanka responsible for the deaths of unarmed innocent Tamil civilians killed during the final months of the battle. The State Department\u2019s Office of Global Crimes in two reports made Sri Lanka mainly responsible for those killings while accusing the LTTE of using unarmed civilians as human shield.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why Sri Lanka needs to bring up this issue a fresh because of the official position adopted by the United States through the DOD Manual. The interpretations, determinations and policy declarations in the Manual <\/em><\/strong>clearly absolves <\/em><\/strong>Sri Lanka of incidents that occurred during the final months of the battle.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Government of Sri Lanka should immediately use its diplomatic channels to clear its name with the US Department of State based on the deliberations found in the 1204-page DOD Manual which can be found at http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/pubs\/Law-of-War-Manual-June-2015.pdf.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/15\/u-s-clears-sri-lanka-of-civilian-deaths-faults-tiger-human-shield\/<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. clears Sri Lanka of civilian deaths: Faults Tiger human shield<\/strong><\/span>
\nPosted on August 15th, 2015<\/h2>\n

By Daya Gamage \u2013 Asian Tribune Media Note<\/em><\/h2>\n

Washington, 14 August (Asiantribune.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n

U.S. Department of Defense \u2013 just released June 2015 \u2013 Law of War Manual, the authoritative position the Government of the United States takes in war situations in both international and non-international warfare, gives the USG official positions on may situation one of which is connected to \u2018Human Shield\u2019 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sri Lankan American The response to this and the follow up action required of the Sri Lanka Government should be high on the agenda.\u00a0 They should not drop the ball because as Daya Gamage states, this is a matter of Sri Lanka\u2019s integrity and the unprecedented downgrading of it as a country based on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}