{"id":60076,"date":"2016-10-25T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T23:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60076"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T23:51:18","slug":"on-those-who-butcered-tamil-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/25\/on-those-who-butcered-tamil-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"ON \u201cTHOSE WHO BUTCERED TAMIL CIVILIANS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sugath Samarasighe<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole. in his illuminating essay()pinion Page- 14th Oct.) on the trivilasing and emasculation of the Independent Elections Commission by the government, says inter-alia as follows: <\/em>The President said, military commanders who led a successful campaign to crush separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009 should not be humiliated by bringing them to courts In other words, total impunity and hero-status to those who butchered Tamil civilians in the tens of thousands\u201d<\/p>\n

Such a statement coming from a renowned academic Prof. Rajan Hoole, holding responsible\u00a0 position among others, as a Member of the Independent Elections Commission is really serious and needs some clarification. We the public were made to understand that the government forces were busy fighting a Terrorist group who called themselves Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) who were finally defeated militarily at Nandikadal in May 2009, after a continuous battle for over 30 years. So, according to the good professor, were they all Tamil civilians carrying arms against the government, destroying and robbing, killing etc.? Again, if this is the case who killed over 20,000 soldiers and so many more injured in the final battle? Were it the \u2018tens of thousands of Tamil civilians\u2019 who killed them or did the soldiers die and others injured themselves, I mean, were they self-inflicted, likee suicide bombers?<\/p>\n

Even if the Tamil civilians were not the people who were fighting the government forces, what were they doing on the battle fronts of Mullivaikkal and Nandikadal etc.? Who brought them there? The soldiers? Whose children were those who were fighting the security forces? How could they be both civilians and arms carrying civilians at the same time?<\/p>\n

Once the final round was concluded at Nandikadal on 19th<\/sup> May, we were made to understand that over 285,000 Tamil civilians crossed over to the side of the Forces, who were safely taken to welfare camps, fed, medical attention and clothing etc. provided and sent out to their home areas after those areas were demined. We were told that even while the Tamil civilians were being entertained by the Army at the receiving points, a Tamil civilian had blown herself up killing and injuring many Tamil civilians around and many soldiers? Is this also the work of Tamil civilians?<\/p>\n

Incidentally and coincidentally, there had been some LTTE fighters among the Tamil civilians who had came over to the government side for safety, who later owned themselves up. They had been later rehabilitated and returned to their parents. Strange, none of these people were \u2018butchered\u2019 by the armed forces. They seem to be so inconsistent.<\/p>\n

Later we learnt that a census was conducted in the former fighting areas through Tamil Government Servants to enumerate the number of family members who had died and disappeared during the fighting times from the relevant areas. We are told that there were only 7000 odd such people,who died out of natural causes or otherwise. So where are the Tamil civilians who were Butchered\u201d by the soldiers? On the other hand, could that 7000 odd add up to those Tamil civilians\u201d who died fighting the armed forces donning LTTE uniforms, carrying arms?<\/p>\n

When finally the Armed Forces succeeded in crushing and eliminating who ever those people who were fighting the government, didn\u2019t the \u2018Butchering\u2019 of the Tamil civilians come to an end for good?<\/p>\n

But I wonder whether the one time Supreme Court Judge Mr. Wigneswaran is trying hard now to re-open the \u2018Butcher\u2019s Shop\u2019 once again. What do you think?<\/p>\n

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

Sugath Samarasighe\u00a0 Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole. in his illuminating essay()pinion Page- 14th Oct.) on the trivilasing and emasculation of the Independent Elections Commission by the government, says inter-alia as follows: The President said, military commanders who led a successful campaign to crush separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009 should not be humiliated by bringing them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60076","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=60076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}