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16th November 2012 11:03 AM
Sri Lanka's main ethnic Tamil party is urging the United Nations to make amends for its acknowledged failure to protect civilians in the final months of the county's civil war by opening an international investigation into civilian deaths.
A U.N. report released Wednesday said the world body took inadequate steps to protect civilians during the bloody final months of the civil war, calling it a "grave failure."
A separate U.N. report released last year said up to 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians may have been killed in the final months of the conflict, which ended in May 2009.
M.A. Sumanthiran, a lawmaker for the Tamil National Alliance, said Friday that the U.N. must make amends for its failure by launching an international investigation into the civilian deaths.
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Comments(7)
i wonder what the neighbouring india did to protect ethnic tamils.it's not only u n failed tamils but also india. india is lead by catholics , muslims ,sikhs and mallus who are insensitive to tamil sufferings. in fact india colluded with terrorist regime of sri lanka in the slaugher of 40,000 tamil people. is india also answerable to un like sri lanka. tamil people shouldn't trust india and must seek the support of a third country like china to resolve their problems.
Posted by Shiva at 11/16/2012 20:21 Reply to this Report abuse
If 40,000 civilians indeed did die where are the skeletons taking into account in particular that every square inch of the north is being de-mined and not just by the Sri Lankan army but by even British NGOs like the Halo Trust?!!!! and at least thirty other INGOs and even the UNDP. So where is the evidence on the ground that 40,000 civilians died? Where is this evidence on the ground after all it should be there if such a thing happened. These accusations are unjust, unfair and unacceptable as far as Sri Lanka is concerned. In truth only a few hundred civilians died during the last s I personally think that Sri Lankan people should sue the Channel 4 News, whoever wrote this fiction in this so called UN (not really a UN but a private) report for billions of dollars for spreading lies and tarnishing its image. UN, UNSC, UNHCR did not commission this report. It is a private report commissioned by US lackey UN secretary general written by well known LTTE terrorist supporting UN staff.
Posted by monkey at 11/16/2012 23:17 Reply to this Report abuse
This TNA talks nonsense as usual. In fact nobody on this planet earth could know or can know how many people were in the northern sri lanka since since 1981 no census has been carried out in this area for over thirty years! It is only in 2012 after more than thirty years that now at last a census has been carried out. So how can anyone on this planet earth say with confidence that there were 330,000 people or any other number for that matter as stated in this UN report actually private report of the UNSC not a UN report!!! talks about? The Sri Lankan govt did send food medicine and all the basics to the people in the northern province who were suffering under the vicious tiger terrorists for over thirty years and the tigers always had a habit of inflating people numbers just to get more of the govt supplies for their own destructive purposes. These LTTE terrorist sympathisers of the UN whoa re appointed by US lackey UNSC are plucking numbers from thin air. They should be sued for sur
Posted by monkey at 11/16/2012 23:25 Reply to this Report abuse
You can imagine how much these so called UN (not really these are private reports of the secretary general) since neither the UN, UNHCR or the UNSC authorised such a reports. These liars say for certain that such and such a number of civilians were caught in the last stages of the war. In truth no census has been carried out in northern sri lanka for over thirty yrs since 1981. Since then some civilians were thrown out by the tigers, some left for the south, some left for India, some to the west due to the terrorist activities of the tiger. In fact in 1995 tigers forced entire pop. of Jaffna into the vanni region and afterwards some of these people went back to Jaffna again. My point is nobody on this planet earth can know how many people were there with the tigers not even the tigers themselves. There was a constant flux of people due to terrorist activities of the tigers. It is based on these false notions that this so called report was written what nonsense!!! Are we fools?
Posted by monkey at 11/16/2012 23:39 Reply to this Report abuse
The UN sec gen thinks the world are fools and maybe they are to believe such nonsensical clap trap not based on any facts but based entirely on 'evidence' provided by the LTTE terrorist supporters in the west. May be the world are fools since the world gullibly believes anything spewed out by Channel 4 UK News, BBC, UNSG private expert panel reports (based on 'evidence' provided by the LTTE terrorist supporters in the west). Anything that is generated from the west is taken as the gospel truth without scrutinising to see what facts if any these so called reports are based on (actually they are great works of fiction). There is another character called Gordon Weiss who has also written a fictional novel about sri lanka and I am wondering are the Indians really fools to believe such fictitious nonsense. Please verify anything coming out of the west. verify, verify and verify!!! What have they done in Iraq and Afghanistan for example? We must be idiots and gullible fools for sure.
Posted by monkey at 11/16/2012 23:47 Reply to this Report abuse