IMMEDIATE
Dear Colleagues ,
Whereas the Resolution proposed
by the USA in the UN Human Rights Council is hypocritical ,as it was the '
Washington Consensus ' on financial and economic policy adopted by Sri Lanka
under the aegis of the World Bank and IMF which made the Sri Lankan elite
and ruling classes victimize the Tamil minority even further ,plunging the
island in a civil conflict lasting decades in which the Tamil minorities of Sri
Lanka were the worst sufferers; the government of India has to raise the issue
of the abuses inflicted on the Tamil minority brutally deprived of their human
and constitutional rights , with Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
committed against them during the brutal civil war inflicted on Sri Lanka
by financial and corporate interests in alliance with the Sri Lankan
ruling elite .
The issue
is not the LTTE which was as much a problem for the Tamils of Sri Lanka as the
government of Sri Lanka , the issue is the complete deprivation of the rights of
the Tamil people .Scores of International Conventions were violated during the
brutal civil war which ended in an armed conflict . Both the Sri Lankan forces
and the LTTE at one time were trained in Israel .
The policy of using
minorities as the scapegoat of the economic and political policies of the ruling
elite in South Asia has to cease . We have witnessed this in several countries
in South Asia , the divide and rule policy to better serve the interests of FDI
and comprador interests in an alliance including in India , Pakistan and earlier
Bangladesh .
The US Resolution pays
lip service , however the Government of India has to independently and
separately raise the issue .There is no such thing as amnesty for the brutal
crimes which have taken place during the civil war , which included the killings
of those Sinhalese who stood for justice for the Tamils and unity going beyond
ethnic and religious differences .
What we must
demand is justice for the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka
Niloufer Bhagwat