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Who is Yasmin Sooka & exactly what is the reason for her involvement into Sri Lanka\u2019s affairs? Is it on a personal note that she is interested or is she part of a group or organization, if so who are involved in this, are there conflict of interests, who is funding her work, who pays her are some of the questions we like to have answered. She is an EU employee and tasked to look into the welfare of South Africans where she herself is a citizen but virtually 24×7 she is preoccupied with Sri Lanka & in particular Sri Lankan Armed Forces. What is that motivates her attention to Sri Lanka so much? She is not an ethnic Tamil like Navi Pillay, who after retiring as UNHRC head is has not been involved in Sri Lanka, but Yasmin Sooka on the other hand since 2011 has been virtually obsessed about Sri Lanka\u2026why?<\/p>\n
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1995-2003, <\/strong><\/p>\n Sooka served on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as the Deputy Chair of the Human Rights Violations Committee<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since 2001<\/strong><\/p>\n Yasmin Sooka is an EU employee working for an EU created entity. She is paid by the EU & function as Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa which EU set up in 1996. The Foundation is funded by EU & Belgium & receives funding from Ireland CARE, UN bodies & even American Foundation. The foundation\u2019s scope of work is SOUTH AFRICA. <\/strong>If EU is funding a human rights initiative in South Africa, how is it that Sooka is allowed to administer a project within the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa called the International Truth and Justice Project\u00a0 – Sri Lanka (ITJP) that has nothing to do with South Africa?<\/strong> http:\/\/www.itjpsl.com<\/a> Interestingly enough even after the hyped 40,000 to 200,000 dead allegations the ITJPSL submitted a list of only 351 missing persons names to the Office on Missing Persons in June 2018. Why have they not given names of 40,000 people they claimed were killed? Sooka herself said We still don’t know how many tens of thousands of Tamils died in the 2009 war and not one person has been held accountable\u201d to allege tens of thousands she must have evidence!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) put out a report (Justice Denied) based on reports by The Oakland Institute in 2016 of offences by SL Security in 2015. https:\/\/www.oaklandinstitute.org\/justice-denied-sri-lanka-resettlement-transitional-justice<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not only is she EU employee of Foundation for Human Rights she is also Director of the ITJP(SL) administered through the FHR & churning regular reports against Sri Lanka. These reports are generally released before UNHRC sessions in Geneva & in her own words we released the report in time before the Geneva Resolution because we wanted to influence the Geneva Resolution\u201d.<\/p>\n The 2014 ITJP report was funded by the British Foreign Office through the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales. Of the 40 selected cases most of whom were former LTTE illegal combatants seeking asylum.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2002-2004 <\/strong><\/p>\n Sooka was one of three appointed international Commissioners to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Sierra Leone appointed by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Sierra Leone is the first country where a truth commission operated alongside a tribunal. Though the TRC was a national institution, the civil society organizations that were part of Sierra Leone\u2019s \u2018elite society\u2019 were pushing for international presence & international funding. They even wrote the TRC Act and even campaigned widely while the grassroots\u2019 organizations were not interested though UN established the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) creating further conflicts. TRC collected over 9,000 statements. Critics cite the futility in plugging Christian faith into \u2018Reconciliation\u2019 instead of traditional ways that people can relate to.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2010 <\/strong><\/p>\n Yasmin Sooka first became involved with Sri Lanka when Ban Ki Moon the UN Secretary General appointed her as one of his personally selected 3 panel members to advise him on the last 3 months of the conflict in Sri Lanka. Report was leaked to the public in 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 2012 co-authoring article against Sri lanka<\/strong><\/p>\n New York Times published an article by the 3 panelists Ban Ki Moon chose to appraise him of the final 3 months of Sri Lanka\u2019s conflict months after the report was leaked. Yasmin Sooka \u2013 Marzuki Darusman & Steven Ratner\u2019s article titled Revisiting Sri Lanka\u2019s Bloody War\u201d have played foul by manipulating words. In their 2011 report they say credible allegations\u201d however months later their article to the New York Times replaces \u2018credible allegations\u201d with credible evidence\u201d not stopping there, they write we found credible evidence that both sides had systematically flouted the laws of war, leading to as many as 40,000 deaths\u201d Totally unethical practice.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/03\/opinion\/revisiting-sri-lankas-bloody-war.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n August 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n Yasmin Sooka was selected as a member of the Advisory Council of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice<\/strong>. Guess who 2 of the 4 Board Members of the SLCP&J are:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SLCPJ Advisory Council also includes known names<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n Yasmin Sooka guest speaker at Global Tamil Forum (proscribed as a LTTE front by GOSL in 2014) conference in UK where she was introduced as \u2018comrade\u2019. TNA\u2019s Sambanthan & Sumanthiran were also present & other speakers included Yolanda Foster of Amnesty International, Dr.Elvira Dominguez Redondo expert of R2P, Prof. William Schabas who endorsed the 2014 report against Sri Lankan forces by Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice and who was also in the C4 1st<\/sup> video.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 call to boycott Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/p>\n Yasmin Sooka said Sri Lanka is quite frankly descending into a state where the rule of law no longer holds sway.\u201d She praised Canada for saying it would boycott the November CHOGM meeting unless Sri Lanka investigates suspected war crimes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 2014 \u2013 petition by Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice (SLCPJ)<\/strong><\/p>\n Yasmin Sooka joined Desmond Tutu, Bishop Rayappu Joseph, R Sambanthan, C V Wigneswaran & 35 others to write to the UNHRC to set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate war crimes & crimes against humanity committed by Sri Lanka. She was the 2nd<\/sup> signatory. Sooka is a member of the Advisory Council of SLCPJ.<\/p>\n http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/archives\/28557<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n March 2014 \u2013 report by Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice (SLCPJ)<\/strong><\/p>\n Crimes against Humanity in Sri Lanka\u2019s Northern Province\u201d forward of the report was by Centre for Justice & Accountability & no surprise Yasmin endorses it. Also endorsing the report was UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez, former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak, and international criminal law and human rights law scholar Professor William Schabas.<\/p>\n http:\/\/cja.org\/downloads\/Crimes%20Against%20Humanity%20in%20Sri%20Lanka_s%20Northern%20Province.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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