War Without Witness in Sri Lanka

DUBLIN TRIBUNAL FINDS AGAINST SRI LANKA ON CHARGES OF WAR CRIMES

Sunday, 17 January 2010 01:02
In Dublin today at 2 pm the Peoples Tribunal chairman Francois Houtart read the preliminary findings of the Peoples Tribunal on the war in Sri Lanka and its aftermath. There are 4 findings: That the Sri Lankan Government is guilty of war crimes That the Sri Lankan Government is guilty of crimes against humanity That the charge of genocide requires further investigation That the International Community, particularly the UK and USA, share responsibility for the breakdown of the peace process.
Read more...

Satellite Imagery Evidence Showing Sri Lanka Military “Purposely or Intentionally” Targeted PTK Hospital - TAG

Saturday, 16 January 2010 21:34
Evidence Submitted to: The People’s Tribunal on Sri Lanka - Dublin, Ireland 14th, 15th January 2010 CONCLUSION 1. The SLA and Sri Lankan state agents, in a joint criminal enterprise with common criminal purpose and design and which operated under the military command responsibility of multiple persons, including but not limited to President Mahinda Rajapakse, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse, former Lt. General Sarath Fonseka, Brigadier Rohana Bandara, Brigadier Satyapriya Liyanage, Brigadier Nishantha Wanniarachchi, Brigadier Shavendra Silva, and Brigadier Jegath Dias, carried out through affirmative act or culpable omission, a disproportionate, indiscriminate, widespread and systematic pattern of direct or indirect attacks on areas in or nearby PTK hospital inside a neutralized government-designated Safe Zone between at least 01/09/2009 and 03/05/2009, which caused the deaths of at minimum 462 Tamil civilians, and which severely injured at minimum 867 Tamil civilians. 2. During times within which PTK hospital was functioning as a hospital, these attacks targeted Tamil combatants and Tamil non-combatants inside and outside PTK hospital without distinction. 3. It is reasonably inferable from the available and preponderant body of admissible evidence – including TAG satellite imagery, TAG eye witness testimony, WWW video footage, WWW land-based photography, human rights reports – that these attacks were committed by the joint criminal enterprise in violation of customary IHL.
Read more...

More Articles...

«
Start
Prev
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
End
»

Page 3 of 89

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband

"..Sri Lankan Government are engaged in a
war without witness
in the north of the country..."
- Press Release , Hanzard
30th April 2009

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband

Jim McDonald - Amnesty International USA

"..Until more steps are taken to
protect human rights in
Sri Lanka’s
war without witnesses,
civilians will continue to
pay the ultimate price..."
- Citizen Times
30th April 2009

Jim McDonald - Sri Lanka
country specialist
for Amnesty International
USA

Barbed-wire Detention Camps

Sri Lankan Government detain
fleeing Tamils behind
barbed wire detention
camps and in some
classified
Sri Lankan Military Intelligence
Screening Camps