{"id":55888,"date":"2016-06-23T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T22:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55888"},"modified":"2016-06-23T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T22:28:33","slug":"sri-lanka-will-be-judged-on-the-basis-of-evidence-given-by-ltte-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/23\/sri-lanka-will-be-judged-on-the-basis-of-evidence-given-by-ltte-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA WILL BE JUDGED ON THE BASIS OF EVIDENCE GIVEN BY LTTE FIGHTERS !"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Keerthi Warnakulasuriya\u00a0Sunday Diavina – 19th June\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(translated by Ranjith Soysa)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Commission was opened on 13th June 2016. Within 5 days of the\u00a0inaugurating its activities 51 page review on Sri Lanka was submitted to the UNHCR by the organization called Truth and Justice.<\/p>\n

This review was complied by pro LTTE ex official of the UN , Yasmin Sooka. She had been involved\u00a0in pro LTTE efforts to bring discredit Sri Lanka since\u00a0 2009 and had furnished 5 reports against Sri Lanka\u00a0previously. She presented her latest report at the Royal Institute of the UK and two\u00a0 INGO activists\u00a0from Sri Lanka were in the audience, namely Sheriff Savier and Sureka Nava. Former , Ambassador for the\u00a0USA in Sri Lanka, Stephen Rapp was also a participant. Sooka ‘s misleading report EXPOSED\u00a0 a secret which\u00a0was hidden by the UN officials to date.<\/p>\n

It became very clear that the persons who gave evidence as to the crimes said to have been committed by\u00a0the Sri Lankan defense forces were NONE OTHER THAN THE LTTE ACTIVISTS THEMSELVES.\u00a0 Yasmin Sooka had traveled to\u00a0the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Norway and had met the LTTE activists and had obtained\u00a0statements from them against Sri Lanka.She has cited names of 75 persons who gave evidence and out of\u00a0this, 54 persons were well known\u00a0 LTTE cadres, They were from the LTTE military brigades such as Radha, Sonia.<\/p>\n

Pandithan, Imran and others were members of the LTTE intelligence unit, TOSI , Nidarshnam, LTTE TV service and \u00a0were activists in the LTTE political fronts.\u00a0 Some of these persons were ‘considered’ missing or dead by\u00a0\u00a0 many sources and it was revealing information to know that they were actually living!<\/p>\n

In the final analysis, the majority of the persons who have given evidence to Darusman Committee- whose names are\u00a0not made known- and to Yasmin Sooka are NONE OTHER THAN THE LTTE ARMED CADRES AND THEIR COLLEAGUES !!!<\/p>\n

What is the moral right of the UNHRC that can be derived from their deceitful attempt to gather evidence against Sri\u00a0Lankan defense forces based on statements issued by the LTTE’s terrorist fighting units? If we accept this scenario\u00a0one has to question whether Seyd Hussain, the Human Rights Commissioner will accept evidence given by Talibah\u00a0and ISIS terrorists too?<\/p>\n

It is expected that the High Commissioner will table his report on Sri Lanka on 29th June. Many of the Western countries and\u00a0expatriate pro-LTTE Tamil organizations are demanding that a hybrid court be initiated to investigate Sri Lanka. But, the\u00a0Sri Lankan President has rejected this model. Yet, the Transitional Govt of the Tamil Eelam chief Rudrakumarn is insisting\u00a0on hybrid courts and had sent a team of 6 international judges to Geneve to pursue their objective. In addition , the present\u00a0chief minister of the Northern Province and his followers have retained the American solicitor Francis Boyle to fight for\u00a0the hybrid courts.<\/p>\n

Many\u00a0 Western countries have provided asylum status to a number of LTTE fighters.\u00a0 The UK has given protection to well\u00a0known 41 LTTE carders while Switzerland , France and Norway have accepted 21, 9 and 4 LTTE ers respectively. These countries have\u00a0failed to identify these terrorists thus violating the UN ‘s anti-Terrorism Resolutions. The fact that the Embassies and the High Commissions\u00a0of these countries have worked in hand and glove with the LTTE\u00a0 to issue visas to the terrorists is very clear.<\/p>\n

Finally , we have to await to find whether the UNHCR\u00a0 will bow to the pressure brought in by the 7 international judges or\u00a0will decide on their own the course of action to be followed regarding the obvious but one sided allegations confirmed by the LTTE fighter cadres.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Keerthi Warnakulasuriya\u00a0Sunday Diavina – 19th June\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(translated by Ranjith Soysa) The 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Commission was opened on 13th June 2016. Within 5 days of the\u00a0inaugurating its activities 51 page review on Sri Lanka was submitted to the UNHCR by the organization called Truth and Justice. This review was complied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55888","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=55888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}