United Nations Secretary-General decision to appoint Marzuki Darusman to head. A panel to investigate alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka was most appropriate. Marzuki was a former Attorney General of Indonesia.The setting up of the panel is most deserving as it is said over 25thousand have either being salutered, tortued or just killed just because they were Tamils a minority in Sri Lanka.
Since the early 80's the Tamils in particular have been at odds with the Sinhala majority as they were racial discrimination in all aspect of government policies and treating the Tamils as 3rd class citizens.
Thus when the Tamils have no hope a group under the leadership of Prabakaran decided a military solution is the answer to Singhala's race supremacy polices.
It's now said there more Sri Lanka Tamils outside Sri Lanka then in Sri Lanka. Why if not for the dangerous discriminatory polices against the minority Tamils.
In 2009 the Sri Lankan army in the pursuit of the LTTE killed thousands of innocent Tamils. Some of this killing have been properly documented including live videos of the incident.
Three days a ago thousands of Sri lanka's Singala demonstrated against the proposed probe by the UN panel in Colombo. The UN office in colombo was surrounded and its office was closed down. Ban the secretary general of UN said" they find it unacceptable that sri lankan authorities have failed to prevent the disruption of the normal functioning of UN's officies in Colombo as a result of unruly protests organized and led bt a cabinet Minister of the Government"
The minister is a stooge of the Sri Lanka Goverment
We call Sri Lanka Government to stop acting against UN personal and instead cooperate with the panel.
If Sri Lanka has nothing to hide why then refuse to cooperate with a Independent world body like UN.
Why is India quiet on this issue? Are they supporting Sri Lanka to sweep all its alleged war crimes under the carpet?
The world cannot and should not pretend that innocent thousands were killed during the civil war. Crimes against humanity must be punished.
We urge UN to move a special resolution to refer Sri Lanka to be investigated by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court(ICC).
If investigations then reveal that there were commission of war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity then any one involved should be charged at the ICC.
President Basheer of Sudan is been investigated by ICC but as he has refuced to co-operate the ICC has issued a warrant of arrest against him. he is now isolated as he faces arrest if he ventures to any country.
M.Kula Segaran
