UN office siege protest world wide on FEB 12th- MAY 17 MOVEMENT

[Mohan Kumar Subramaniam]

In November 2012, three-member UN Internal Review Panel headed by
Charles petrie submitted its report on the response of United Nations
to the Genocidal war in Sri Lanka. The report which spans over 120
pages lays bare the stance and actions of some of the top officials of
UN in relation to srilanka and records that directly and indirectly
those officials supported srilanka.  We consider that report has
disclosed the proof for the reason of UN expert panel’s emphasis on
War crimes and its dialogues that discarded political solution to the
problem. The report reveals that top UN officials have either
collaborated or submitted to pressure of the Srilankan government and
have not just issues statements, reported and hidden information’s in
favor of Srilanka but also have manipulated and liquidated the ground
reports, discarded the information and hindered the duties of the
officials who have been working under them. We would like to bring
some of the important information in the review report to notice.

We categorize the functions of the UN during war in any region into
two categories. One, Humanitarian operations in those regions. Two,
Human rights and ensuring that the international  laws on human rights
are not violated and bring to the notice of the world in case of any
violations.  The world nations have agreed to the above to functions
by signing the agreements and articles of UN and thereby  have
accepted the investigations and punishments by international law on
the state in case of any violations by the respective nation.

We can classify the UNs help to the srilankan government as a two step
process. First was during of war, when Srilankan government was
allowed to carry on war without any intervention, discarding
international requests in favor of the Tamils and pressure to stop the
war and at the same time have helped Srilanka to carry on with the war
crimes.  Secondly aftermath of the war, UNs aid to srilanka falls
under two categories. One, preventing a international investigation on
srilanka after war and thereby stopping the chance for a referendum,
providing enough time to Srilanka to erase all the evidences of
genocide, so that in the future no international debate on genocide
and demands can again rise in the future. Two, UN has effectively
narrowed down the demand for international investigation to internal
investigation and shifting from the political demand of independent
Tamil Eezham to humanitarian Operations, Re-habilitation, welfare
schemes, Reconciliation and creating Opinion among the Tamils and
among the world nations in favor of these.
Few points to be noted in Petrie’s  internal report:

UNs order to its officials to leave Srilanka was a big setback to the
Tamils, who came to UN office and secure areas surrounding them in
search of safety and forced into the Genocidal trap.

Food and medicines of 18 metric tons had to be sent every 8-10 days as
humanitarian aid. But after Jan 15 UN not only did not send anything
but also did not take any measure to send.

After the permission from Srilankan Government, 11th iteration of aid
was sent to war torn places. The Srilankan Government intensified the
attack when the vehicles which carried the things were guaranteed to
be returned on 16th which held them back in Mullaithivu for more than
2 weeks. The report records that they sent information about the
number of causalities during that period from the offensive launched
by the Srilankan Government unmindful of the Human rights (hospitals,
places where civilians and UN workers have gathered were attacked).
Out of those who sent this information, 6 were UNs international
workers and 5 were locals.

The quantity of food in UNs aid sent to the Tamil regions was much
less that the actual need.  The Srilankan Government projected the
information that the regions under siege had cultivatable farm lands,
and enough food was available and also deliberately reduced the
population count in those regions. Even after Amnesty International
proved the incorrectness of this information, UN did not take any
steps to bring about an international criticism on Srilanka.

In addition the aid contained cricket bats, balls and anti LTTE
propaganda material produced by the Srilankan Government.
Two of the UN workers escaped from war fields to Columbu and shared
the field information in the UN office. The task of populating
information about the number Tamil casualties that was hitherto not
done was taken up and was done based on the information given by these
two UN workers on the 2nd week of Feburary 2009. At the end of 3rd
week, the number of Tamil Causalities has risen to shocking heights.

In the first week of March 2009, when the UN headquarters was informed
about this they immediately sent a higher official from its political
wing.  After analyzing the information in Colombo, he stated "We will
be co-accused if we do not take any action based on this information
and stop the war". He went to UN headquarters with the compiled
information on March 9th.

On March 12 2009, after a UN high level meeting, a mail was sent to
the UN Human rights council by the then chief of staff Vijay Nambiar.
He has requested the Human rights council not to disclose information
regarding the number of causalities in the Srilankan case as the
information cannot be validated. He went further to recommend the
UNHRC to liquidate the information in case UNHRC decides to release
the information. He also emphasizes that charging the Srilankan
government with war crimes and crimes against humanity cannot be done
at that point of time, doing which they will have to face the wrath of
the Srilankan government which is not recommendable. He also mentions
that the Srilankan State and the LTTE have been weighed on equal
grounds in case of accusing them with war crimes.  Later mails on
similar lines from various UN offices, especially form John Holmes who
was United nations Under-Secretary-general for Humanitarian affairs
and emergency relief coordinator were sent to UNHRC and on March12-13
the report from UNHRC were released severely criticizing and accusing
LTTE.

This was the last in the line of the reports that came in relation to
the killing of Tamils. The report which accused the LTTE has been
rejected by the UNs workers who were in war torn areas of Srilanka. As
a result of the actions of Vijay Nambiar, Petrie records in his
report, for more than 45 days the civilians did not receive food or
medicine which cause of thousands of causalities.

The world nations did not receive proper and complete information
regarding the number of casualties as a result of Vijay Nambiars
belayed the reports. Further by accusing the LTTE he created a
international opinion in favor of Srilanka by projecting LTTE as a
terrorist organization that has to be dealt with and the war as a “war
against terror” thereby facilitating the killing of Tamils by the
Srilankan government.

The UN considers using Medicine and food as weapons in war as a War
Crime. But Vijay Nambiar and John Holmes claimed that if they do not
cooperate with the Srilankan government they may face trouble in
carrying out the humanitarian operations in Srilanka. Contrary to
their claim, after Jan 15 2009 till the end of war UN did not deliver
either food or medicine to the civilians in the war zone and the world
nations never warned about this.

The email also brings to light another important fact. The UNHRC has
concluded that actions of Srilankan Government are to be accounted as
war crimes and crimes against humanity on March 12 2009. It did so
after analyzing all the facts that it has got from the UN workers who
were present in the war torn areas of Srilanka. But Vijay Nambiar and
John Holmes consider this first hand information as unreliable.
Charles Petrie’s report has revealed all these information. But
important sections of the report were blackened and then released by
the UN. The above facts have been compiled after comrades of the May
17 Movement unveiled those hidden blackened information.
In April 2009, based on the satellite report which revealed huge
losses suffered by the Tamils and the attacks on hospitals, UN issued
a statement condemning Srilanka. Though the report also laid
accusations on LTTE the Srilankan government summoned John Holmes and
forced him to acknowledge that the statement was based on unreliable
and false information. John Holmes sends an email as demanded and this
email were used by the Srilankan government refute UNs claim. Instead
of criticizing such an act by one of its officials in one of the press
conference Ban-ki-Moon PRO answering the questions on civilian
casualties in Srilanka said that “counting the dead is not our Job”.
UNHRC, one of the most important organizations of UN was thus
silenced. Yukio Takasu’s  (who was a President of the United Nations
Security Council) position in favor of Srilanka, and the report
against LTTE made a debate on the Humanitarian Issues on Srilanka
impossible in UN Security Council. Through the silent consent of
Ban-Ki-Moon, till the end of war the UN general Assembly or Security
Council was never convened to discuss the issue.  Other UN Bodies were
also silenced by the efforts of John Holmes and Vijay Nambiar.

Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide should have passed on
information to UN Secretary general Ban-Ki-Moon and prevented the
genocide from happening. He also holds the power to implement and
reaffirm the Humanitarian and Human rights laws in case of any
violation.  On May 15 2009, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of
Genocide has sent information to Ban-Ki-Moon that there is every
possibility for genocide to happen in Srilanka. Charles Petrie has
reported that, Ban-ki-Moon instead of acting on this information
decides to take the line of co-operation with Srilanka which was
proposed by Vijay Nambiar and John Holmes.  Srilanka was thus given
the complete liberty to carry on the Tamil Genocide.

The Office of special representative of secretary general of children
and armed conflict, submitted his report on Srilanka only weeks after
the war. But their first report in Feburary 2009 mentions that the
number of child casualties has been relatively high.  These top 3
officials through their efforts have either silenced the various UN
organizations turned them to work in favor of Srilanka.

Vijay Nambiar was sent to Colombo to handle the crisis in Srilanka.
Arriving in Srilanka on May 14, his prime task was to oversee and
ensure that the civilians who were trapped in Mullivaikal and the LTTE
leaders who have surrendered to the Srilankan Army were treated by
International Laws.  But the Srilankan government turns down his
request to visit Mullivaikal and promises him that the Srilankan
Government will protect the LTTE leaders who surrender. Vijay Nambiar
did not press his demand to visit Mullivaikaal. When he was asked
regarding this in a press conference he replied that the “Weather
outside Colombo is not suitable”.

Satish Nambiar, Brother of Vijay Nambiar has been the adviser of
Srilankan Army during the War. It has been a common practice in UN,
not to pick its representative to the Crisis zone from a neighboring
nation. But in Case of Srilanka and Burma UN has not adhered to this
practice.

Ban-Ki-Moon did not visit Srilanka during the days of Genocide. He did
not visit Srilanka when the International media brought to light the
Mass killings of Civilians and the execution of the Surrendering LTTE
leaders and their families.  The UN workers themselves accuse him of
visiting Srilanka to take part in the Victory Celebrations of
Srilanka. Right from the beginning to the end of the War UN has been
accusing only the LTTE for various violations, and not the Srilankan
Government inspite of the numerous evidences of crimes by the
Srilankan Government, like Preventing UNs Humanitarian Operations by
Bombing.

After the War, the UN legal counsel proposed to start International
Investigation on the Srilanka based on Section 99 in Law. In July
2009, Ban-ki-moon proposed to give Srilanka a little time and also
recommended an internal investigation substituting a international
Investigation. Srilankan Government denied even for an Internal
Investigation until January 2010. So in March 2010 UN sets up a panel
to investigate the Srilankan War. The Panel was not allowed to even
enter Srilanka and it submitted its report. The UN did not even
condemn the act of Srilanka’s denial for the panel to enter the
Island.

The Charles Petrie Internal Review Report has numerous such evidences
about various UN Officials. No action has been taken on this report so
far. Instead attempts have been made to brush aside and cover up the
truths reveled by the report.

BBC in an attempt to muddle the report called upon John Holmes himself
and reported his views on the report. Not much debate was initiated in
the Media on this report. The Indian Media has maintained utter
silence on this report. The UN officials are now concentrating on
pushing back the demand for Independent Tamil Eezham and only lay
demands for Reconciliation, Rehabilitation, Welfare schemes. On Aug
1,2012 John Ging, the Director of Operations of the UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), after finishing a
three-day visit to the country, said “The scale of what Sri Lanka has
accomplished over the past three years – the pace of resettlement and
the development of infrastructure – is remarkable and very clearly
visible”.  It has to be noted that various important UN officials have
been praising and acknowledging Srilankan Government.

One more information to be noted here is that Siddharth Chatterjee, a
former Indian Army personnel was the part of the IPKF force and took
part in the Infamous Jaffna University Helidrop. He was one of the
very few army men who live through that operation. From that point of
time till now he has been writing against LTTE, Tamil Eezham and the
Tamils in general. He is not working with the UN but also he is the
son-in-law of Ban-Ki-Moon. It’s no surprise that Ban-ki-Moon with
close relatives like Satish Nambiar and Siddharth Chatterje took part
in Genocide.

These three officers and the force that operated them, India and its
officials have to be investigated. Charges have to be filed against
them and investigations have to be carried out. It is this deadly
coalition that has carrying out actions against Independent Tamil
Eezham on the International stage. The various UN organizations have
failed to stop the Genocide and collaborated with the Srilankan State.
 Ban-ki-Moon by stopping International Investigation has prevented
referendum for independent Eezham. It is the responsibility of the
Tamils to fight for the denied justice.  For international Justice to
prevail the three officials along and the Indian officials who were
behind them have to be investigated and punished.  It’s the
responsibility of the Tamils to make this happen failing which the UN
will bury the demand and prevent a International debate for
Independent Tamil Eezham.

Let us lay siege on the UN offices all over the world on the day
Murugadasan self-immolated himself!!

Let us bring to light the corrupt UN officials and the Indian State
Operating Behind them!!

Let us bring demand for a International investigation and a referendum
for Independent Eezham!!

Let us win out Freedom!!

--
yours,
Mohan Kumar Subramaniam
Bangalore
 
www.Infoog.com/Mohan

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