Genocide in Sri Lanka

Genocide in Sri Lanka 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) – Article 2 defines Genocide as following;

"Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka

More than 100,000 Tamil men, women and children Killed or Disappeared
Nearly 1 Million Tamils made to flee the country
More than 600,000 Tamil Internal Refugees (Internally Displaced or Evicted)
More than 20,000 Tamil orphaned children
More than 35,000 Tamil widows
Thousands of families (including infants) in barbed wire fenced concentration camps operated by Sri Lankan Military.
Half a million Tamils kept in an open prison in Northern Sri Lanka
Thousands in custody – detention without trial, other widespread abuses
Economic embargo imposed on traditional Tamil areas for more than 2 decades
Supply of food, medicine, fuel, electricity and other essential items controlled by the Military
Forced Starvation
Mass Graves and systematic violations of fundamental human rights remain uninvestigated
No International Media allowed into conflict areas
Systematic destruction of Infrastructure
Indiscriminate and wanton air attacks on traditional Tamil areas for more than 2 decades.
Hundreds of thousands of livelyhoods and schools, hospitals, libraries, temples, churches, houses, villages destroyed

In 2009, atrocities carried out against Tamil civilians have reached unprecedented levels.

Click to Fax campaign - Appeal to UN Security Council President for the month of April - Ambassador Claude Heller

Ambassador Claude Heller
Permanent Representative of Mexico to UN
President - Security Council
Two United Nations Plaza, 28th Floor,
New York, NY 10017

Dear Hon. Claude Heller,

I am deeply concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Northern Sri Lanka.

It is the systematic and long running political and violent campaigns by the successive Sri Lankan Governments against Tamils that has brought about the present catastrophic situation. Thousands of human lives cannot be used as debating objects - humanitarian vs. political, by the world countries to decide whether this matter should be taken up by the Security Council. The present situation is both a humanitarian and a political one. The Tamils have the right for self determination in their traditional homeland.

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Click to Fax campaign - Appeal to Hon. Kevin Rudd

The Hon Kevin Rudd MP
Prime Minister of Australia
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Dear Prime Minister,

As an Australian, I am deeply concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Northern Sri Lanka. I am also deeply disturbed by the fact that our Foreign Minister, Hon Stephen Smith, is not making himself available for the representatives of Australian Tamil community to meet and apprise him of the seriousness of the developing humanitarian catastrophe. This direct appeal to you is therefore one out of urgent necessity.

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Click to Fax campaign - Appeal to The White House

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Barrack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,

I am deeply concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Northern Sri Lanka.

There are more than 250,000 Tamil civilians including thousands of children in the "safe zone". The Sri Lankan Armed Forces have surrounded and are directing their entire firepower into this region under the pretext of fighting the LTTE.

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Click to Email campaign - Appeal to Hon. David Miliband

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, UK

Ede House
143 Westoe Road
South Shields
NE33 3PD

Dear Hon. David Miliband,

I am deeply concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Northern Sri Lanka.

There are more than 250,000 Tamil civilians including thousands of children in the "safe zone". The Sri Lankan Armed Forces have surrounded and are directing their entire firepower into this region under the pretext of fighting the LTTE.

Many Tamils abroad have relatives in the "safe zone" and fear their imminent death due to the indiscriminate attacks by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces. Civilians and children are being attacked and then being labelled "terrorists".

According to reports from the "safe zone", Sri Lankan Armed Forces are now using chemical weapons. The Sri Lankan Armed forces have also used banned cluster bombs and other heavy weapons that have claimed the lives of thousands of civilians including children.

Given the track record of atrocities by Rajapakse's Government, the possession and use of chemical weapons by this genocidal regime CANNOT be ignored.

We appeal to you to call for an immediate ceasefire.
We appeal to you to take this matter to the UN Security Council.
We appeal to you to call for an independent investigation into the use of chemical weapons.
We appeal to you to call on the Sri Lankan Government to put forth a political package if it is sincere about long term peace.
We appeal to you to recognise Tamils right for self determination in their traditional homeland.