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Asian Centre for Human Rights
CHAMPIONING TERRORISTS' RIGHTS

Rohan

The article published under the heading "Sri Lanka: Time for International Action" by the individual calling himself an institution under the heading of Asian Center for Human Rights, is yet again a cry to the world to provide a life line to the racist terrorist Tamil Tigers who have been waging a debilitating terror campaign with the intention of establishing a mono-ethnic dictatorship through systematic ethnic cleansing.

The report attempts to white wash the Tamil Tigers under the guise of a Human Rights report, by subtle mis-representation and outright distortion of fact to mislead the wider international community that still mistakenly tends to believe anything published under the banner of 'Human Rights' to be legitimate and therefore believable. The blatant lies and accusations made in several places in this article quite well demonstrates its ill intentions by deliberately misrepresenting and even conveniently manufacturing scenarios to justify an international intervention, obviously intended towards providing the world's most vicious terrorist organization, the Tamil Tigers, an opportunity to re-group and re-arm to carry out its genocidal campaign against all those who stand against its neo-Nazi clam for a mono-ethnic, autocratic homeland.

The following extracts from the article abundantly illustrate its hidden agenda;

"I. How did the CFA fail?

The Cease Fire Agreement signed in February 2002 has been repeatedly violated with impunity both by the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE. Indeed, no Sri Lankan government (led by the majority Singhalese) has shown any intention of resolving the problems of the ethnic Tamils so far. In March 2004 the then government of the United National Party (UNP) split the Karuna faction from the LTTE. The Sri Lankan government then began a proxy war with LTTE using the Karuna faction. The CFA was in tatters..."

In contrast, here are the facts;

From February 2002, the LTTE attempted to escalate the conflict by killing intelligence operatives of the government, indiscriminate bombings, assassination of political opponents etc. The following is an analysis of the figures released by SLMM at the very early stages of the CFA from February 2002 to August 2005.
• Total number of violations was 1514 out of which 1436 were committed by the LTTE and 78 by the GoSL. The percentage being LTTE- 95% and GoSL- 5%
• 58% of LTTE violations were comprised of child recruitment violations
• Total number of Offensive military operations related violations were 28 out of which 25 were committed by the LTTE whereas 3 were by the GoSL.
• The total percentage of Offensive military operations comprised of 89% LTTE 11% by the government
• 95% of the Restore to Normalcy related violations were committed by the LTTE whilst the GoSL was accountable for 5% of such violations.

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By its deliberate attempts to equate the Sri Lankan government response to unceasing attacks and assassinations by the Tamil Tigers against its military and political leaders, the ACHR demonstrates its intentions to mislead the readers into believing the combatants to be equally guilty of wrong-doing, when well documented facts dictate otherwise.

The article also attempts to pre-empt any accusations against one of the most suspect international covert supporters of Tamil Tiger terrorism.

"...The failure of the peace process underlines the inherent weaknesses in small country peace brokerage. Norway never had the necessary leverage in the peace process, nor is it ever likely to have. In Sri Lanka, Norway has been little more than a messenger..."

Norway, a nation perched a world apart from Sri Lanka, has been a suspect participant in the island nation's degeneration from a peaceful third world country with a stagnant economy, into a nation threatened by racial fragmentation and devastating war brutalizing generations of its people. Though successive Sri Lankan governments have failed to confront Norway, a powerful NATO nation in any international forum and call it what it truly is, a nation supporting terrorism against Sri Lanka while pretending to be her friend, majority of Sri Lankans distrust and hold them totally responsible for the horrific acts of terrorism the Tamil Tigers have been able to wage on Sri Lankan soil with impunity. Norway's involvement has often caused raised eye brows with many international observers of the conflict, yet never been addressed in the forums where they should justifiably be taken up. The article conveniently fails to illustrate the fact that to the majority of the 70,000 innocent Sri Lankan lives lost, Norway has been none less than a messenger of death.

In a deliberate attempts to hide the fact that its true intentions are to white wash the terrorist group, the writer makes a single blurb of acts committed by the LTTE, which are mere misdemeanors when compared to the abjectly horrifying list of mass scale atrocities committed by the terrorist group since the signing of the ill-conceived cease-fire agreement by the GoSL;

" The LTTE has also been responsible for violations of humanitarian law. On 2 January 2008, at least four persons including three civilians died and about 20 others injured when suspected LTTE exploded a bomb targeting a military bus in Colombo. [2] On 5 December 2007, at least 15 civilians died and 38 others were injured in a landmine attack allegedly by the LTTE on a crowded bus in northern Sri Lanka..."

What the ACHR deliberately fails to illustrate is that in the aftermath of the Cease-fire agreement, and following the granting of unrestricted administrative powers to the terrorist group by the then government, the LTTE embarked on a swift pogrom of carrying out systematic annihilation of all opponents to its vicious dictum, actual or suspect, by a campaign of torture and execution. Within the first year itself countless numbers of Tamils from the Northern and Eastern provinces were abducted into torture camps in which confessions were forcibly obtained and most summarily executed. Tamil militants who have since joined forces with the SLG since then claim the numbers to be in the thousands, while there is no verifiable system to account for these activities.

Some survivors of these torture and elimination campaigns have since been recruited by the Sri Lankan military and employed in covert operations behind LTTE lines. Once inducted into the LTTE areas, the Sri Lankan military exercises little or no control on these elements, whose psychological set up make them deadly warriors and yet extremely dangerous human beings. While the Sri Lankan military bears some responsibility for employing such elements in its military campaign, the fact that they are the creations of Tamil Tiger terrorism must be clearly recognized.

The ACHR also 'forgets' to point out that the Sri Lankan government continues to provide even food and all infra-structure facilities for the Tamil civilians currently held hostage in the Tamil Tiger dominated areas through international relief agencies such as the ICRC and UN. It also 'forgot' to point out the fact that the LTTE still continues to recruit and deploy more than 6,000 child combatants in its campaign of terrorism.

The ACHR article herein referred to can be found on;

http://www.achrweb.org/Review/2008/201-08.html






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