DRAVIDA PERAVAI
WRITES TO 147 NATIONS
IN UN ON
SRILANKA’s GENOCIDE OF TAMILS
In the 11 th special session on 26th
May 2009 of the Human Rights Council at Geneva the self laudatory resolution of
Srilanka was passed with the support of Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain,
Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, CHINA, Cuba, Djibouti,
Egypt, Ghana, INDIA, Indonesia Jordan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nicaragua,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia,
Senegal, South Africa, Uruguay and Zambia.
The Resolution
to charge Srilanka for Tamil Genocide got the backing of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, CANADA, Chile, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, Mexico, NETHERLANDS, Slovakia
Slovenia,
SWITZERLAND, UK, Northern Ireland.
Japan, Argentina, Gabon, Mauritius,
Republic of Korea, Ukraine abstained from voting. The 11th Regular
session of UN Human Rights Council began on 2nd June and continues
till 18th June 2009. There are 167 embassies in Geneva. Out of these
167 countries excluding China, Pakistan, Srilanka and India, to all other
countries Dravida Peravai had sent a 22 page memorandum urging the nations to
punish those guilty of Tamil genocide, as well as urging nations that took
wrong stand in the special session to reverse the stand before regular session
and also to take the issue to General Assembly of United Nations.15 mails
bounced.147 nations Ambassadors received the mails. Identical letters were
sent.
To The Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative
Respected Sir
We, a political party in India
representing Indian Tamils had been helplessly pleading to the United Nations
to redeem our kinsmen in Srilanka from the clutches of the Srilankan Government
headed by Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe who had unleashed a genocidal war are bleeding
in our hearts for the failure of the conscience of the humanity which did not
prompt United Nations to act in time. We thought that at least in the 11th
special session of the Human Rights Council held on 26th May of
2009, member nations will initiate steps to probe the war crimes and crimes
against humanity committed by Srilankan President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe.
We thank the Governments of Bosnia &
Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland who have
stood up against Srilanka.
We regret that we have failed to present
our case and cause before Japan, Argentina, Gabon, Mauritius, Republic of Korea
and Ukraine, which abstained from voting in favour of Srilanka.
We have to pity with Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh,
Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Ghana,
INDIA, Indonesia , Jordan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines,
Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Uruguay, and
Zambia, who have been in haste to vote a self congratulatory resolution of the
Neo-Hitler of the 21st century Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe. These nations,
some of them well known about the magnitude of genocide had backed Srilanka,
thereby hoping that all war crimes could be hidden before the world. We will be
appealing to all nations, misguided and that had committed mistake, or
historical blunder to give a clean chit to genocide, to re-think and reevaluate
from whatever evidences that had started to trickle in through media, that too
quoting UN sources.
Increasing international media coverage
of Government of Sri Lanka's culpability to the massacre of more than 20,000
Tamil civilians in Mullaitheevu must awaken those nations that faltered in
their steps on 26th May of 2009. Emily Wax of Washington Post in story dated 29th May
2009 said, the beach "shows clear
signs of heavy artillery shelling, according to a helicopter inspection of the
site by independent journalists, interviews with eyewitnesses, and specialists
who have studied high-resolution satellite imagery from the war zone.”
We further quote the full text of The
Times’ editorial, dated 29th May and titled ‘Witness to disaster’,
follows: Sri Lanka yesterday faced fresh
calls for a war crimes inquiry after reports in The Times that at least 20,000
Tamils were killed, mostly by army shelling, in the closing stages of the civil
war. But as Colombo clumsily denounced the reports and the photographic
evidence as propaganda, evidence has emerged that not only the United Nations
but several Western governments knew of the slaughter weeks ago but kept silent
for fear of upsetting the Sri Lankan Government. Such a monstrous collusion in
covering up an atrocity must not go unchallenged. If the UN Human Rights
Council refuses to investigate what has happened, the West must do so
forthwith.
An abashed UN
yesterday admitted that the death toll from Sri Lanka's civil war was
“unacceptably high”. But spokesmen still refused to confirm the total, compiled
from UN sources on the ground. The figures were based on meticulous reports of
the daily deaths among the desperate civilian refugees hit by army shells, and
the UN rebuffed Sri Lanka's claim that not a single civilian had been killed by
shelling. The “well-informed estimates” of casualties, it said, had been passed
on to governments and the UN had been “ringing the alarm bells” for a long time.
These reports show just the tip of the
iceberg. It is the moral duty of humanity and the custodians of civilized
society, namely the member nations of United Nations to indict the Srilankan
Government and the nations that supplied chemical weapons banned globally.
We are enclosing an appeal to all member
nations as attachment which will give the background of Tamil issue and the
present status. In the light of these evidences, we urge your nation to take
the correct stand in the General Assembly of the United Nations. We call upon
you to advice the permanent representatives of 47 countries to make amends in
the 11 the regular session of the Human Rights Council that starts in Geneva from
2nd June and lasts till 18th June of 2009.
With Regards
Yours Fraternally
N.Nandhi
Varman
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