{"id":98863,"date":"2020-02-10T02:28:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T09:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98863"},"modified":"2020-02-10T02:28:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T09:28:04","slug":"sri-lankas-dead-are-ltte-dead-in-llrc-report-also-featured-in-omp-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/10\/sri-lankas-dead-are-ltte-dead-in-llrc-report-also-featured-in-omp-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Dead: Are LTTE dead in LLRC report also featured in OMP list?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The\nLessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission Report of November 2011 declared\n22,247 LTTE dead of which 11,812 had been identified by name. However, 10,435\nLTTE dead had not been identified by the time LLRC report was released in\nNovember 2011. Has Sri Lanka\u2019s MoD identified the remaining unidentified 10,435\nLTTE dead with names is what we want answered first. Secondly, the Office of Missing Persons’ instituted in 2017 has a list\nof its own on dead & missing which in total numbers 23,586 and includes 5000 missing soldiers of Sri Lanka\u2019s Armed\nForces. Does OMP feature any of the 22,247 LTTE dead or even the 10,435 LTTE\ndead that could not be identified before LLRC report was released?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lankan\nGovernment & OMP officials must provide answers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The\nentire list of 11,812 LTTE dead with names <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
    • List\nof 10,435 LTTE dead if they had been identified AFTER LLRC report was made\npublic<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
      • If\n10,435 LTTE dead have not been identified \u2013 their photos must be made public so\nthat their families can come forward & identify them <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
        • Is this 10,435 LTTE dead included by\nTamils as \u2018civilians\u2019 in the OMP list of 18,586 (having omitted the 5000\nMissing Sri Lankan Soldiers)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
          • Can\nLTTE dead be included into OMP list of missing? <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
            • Who\nare the 23,586 missing \/ by name & ethnicity & since when have they\nbeen missing (all details pertaining to them must be available in the OMP website)\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
              • Who\nare the 18,586 given to Paranagama Commission \u2013 by ethnicity & name (having\nomitted the 5000 Missing Sri Lankan soldiers) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
                • If LTTE dead in LLRC are featured in OMP then the OMP officials have some explaining to do<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
                  • We would like to know what the OMP has done about missing people during UNP\/JVP killing spree of 1980s\/1990s as well as every person missing by LTTE because their lives matter too not just LTTE dead<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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                    Sri Lankan tax payers will\nnot agree to paying a single cent to LTTE dead or LTTE families.<\/strong> Let\u2019s be very clear about this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    LTTE killed many an innocent unarmed civilian who had done them\nno harm. Many of those who survived are injured for life and cannot even make a\nliving on their own. They have been neglected by their families as their\nfamilies cannot look after them in view of the poverty they suffer. These\nvictims and their grievances must take precedence over feeling any sympathy for\nLTTE murderers & their families. No\nState can agree to compensating LTTE terrorists when LTTE remains banned in Sri\nLanka completely forgetting what LTTE did. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    We are willing to let\nbygones be bygones and move on and even allow rehabilitated LTTE to begin a new\nlife but we are not in agreement for our tax money to be given to any LTTE dead\nor LTTE family as compensation.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    The LTTE diaspora is holding a kitty that is full of money from\nillegal and legal international ventures. The LTTE made annual profits of\n$300million which must have trebled by now since they do not have to purchase\narms, ammunition or maintain combatants. GoSL must canvass among foreign\ngovernments and seal these funding and transfer that to ill-gotten money to\nmaintain victims on both sides who suffered because of LTTE rather than pass on\nthe burden to the already suffering tax payers of Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    GoSL \u2013 do not move a cent of tax payers money to compensate a\nsingle LTTE dead or their families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    The liberals and NGOs and their foreign partners whose love for\nLTTE dead and their families oozes out 24×7 are welcome to use their personal\nfund to compensate the LTTE dead and their families given that many locals and\nforeigners had a lucrative job because LTTE existed and were able to travel\naround the world holding terrorist tamashas, conflict-resolution workshops and\nenjoy 5-star hotel stays. So naturally, they are indebted to the LTTE for what\nthey enjoyed while LTTE thrived. So they can return the favor by looking after\nthe LTTE dead families & compensating from their own funds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    We demand to know the names of anyone claimed LTTE dead as a\ncivilian \u2013 that is completely prohibited by international law. LTTE has\nviolated Rule 1: THE PRINCIPLE OF DISTINCTION: DISTINCTION BETWEEN\nCIVILIANS AND COMBATANTS which binds LTTE The parties to the conflict\nmust at all times distinguish between civilians and combatants. Attacks\nmay only be directed against combatants. Attacks must not be\ndirected against civilians\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    LTTE\nfired keeping civilians amongst them and LTTE did not allow civilians to flee\nto safety while shooting dead the civilians that did so. LTTE had an armed\ncivilian combat unit and any person belonging to this unit who died cannot\nclaim to be a \u2018civilian\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    So what we want answered is \u2013 who among\nthe Tamils killed were LTTE \/ LTTE civilian force & 100% civilian not\nhaving taken part in any hostilities whatsoever. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    Can UNHRC \/ OISL \/ UN rapporteurs \/\ndiplomats \/ NGO and INGOs answer this simple question. Unless they can answer\nthis NONE OF THEM can accuse Sri Lanka\u2019s Armed Forces of committing ANY WAR\nCRIMES whatsoever. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    The\nUN and media reports end with the most preposterous assumption negating\nstatements by GoSL & Sri Lankan Armed Forces claiming that since\nindependent media\/humanitarian activist presence was not available details\ncannot be verified. Oh yeah sure, LTTE who did not allow its own people to flee\nand who does not think twice about killing or keeping anyone hostage or as a\nhuman shield will allow media and NGOs to take down notes and validate how they\nare firing at the army from civilian presence! This is too hysterical to even\nimagine! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    For\n10 years we have been taken around the mulberry bush by the UN, INGOs, NGOs,\nhuman rights organizations and diplomats. All of them love to read fancy\nspeeches but none of them have plucked even 20 skeletons from the war zone to\nclaim mass murder or war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces to the\ntune of 40,000 which is the basis of war crimes allegations. While they sit on\ntheir mighty armchairs refusing to accept the UN Country Team report giving\n7721 dead, the GoSL survey at end of conflict claiming 7400 dead or population\nsurvey done by Tamil Teachers in July 2011 revealing 7896 dead they cannot\nother than pluck figures from the sky validate even 10,000 dead with names. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                    The Sri Lankan Armed Forces have been humiliated enough throughout these 10 years. These lies and fabrications against them must stop or produce every name and detail of the supposed to be dead 40,000!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                    Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    The Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission Report of November 2011 declared 22,247 LTTE dead of which 11,812 had been identified by name. However, 10,435 LTTE dead had not been identified by the time LLRC report was released in November 2011. Has Sri Lanka\u2019s MoD identified the remaining unidentified 10,435 LTTE dead with names is what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98863","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\/1498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}