EVIDENCE Against ASOKA BRIAN SENEWIRATNE - HUB Forensics and Legal Department of The Holistic University of Brisbane (HUB)

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Evidence Against Brian

Senewiratne
2015 Dr Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam Arya Chakravarti
romeshsenewiratne@gmail.com
The following evidence is tendered to the High Court of Sri Lanka regarding War
Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity by Asoka Brian Senewiratne, born in the
Urapola Estate, Veyangoda, Sri Lanka on the 16 th of January 1932.
Brian Senewiratne was a key architect of the war in Sri Lanka, and was
involved in groundwork for the war when he worked at the Peradeniya
University from 1968 to 1976. After coming to Australia in January 1976
he orchestrated the war with a secretive group of Tamil doctors,
academics and lawyers, notably the ex-professor of Surgery at the
Peradeniya University, Dr Chelvarayan Barr-Kumarakulasinghe, resident
at 26 Edith Street, Glenwaverley, Melbourne.
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From the Brian Senewiratne Pages blog (maintained by

the LTTE and his nephew Kavan Yatawara in the UK):
http://briansenewiratne.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-min=2006-0101T00:00:00Z&updated-max=2007-01-01T00:00:00Z&max-results=10
The British Owe A Lot To The Tamil People
The Chaos In Sri Lanka: The Role Of Britain & The Commonwealth
It is not widely appreciated that the current chaos in Sri Lanka is partly due to
the damage done by colonial Britain, and later by the failure of the
Commonwealth, to act when all the Commonwealth core values had been
systematically and blatantly violated by a succession of Sri Lankan (Sinhalese)
governments. The result is a Totalitarian State where human rights have taken a
bashing, democracy has been dismantled, Parliament has been reduced to a
rubber stamp, the Separation of Powers the basis of any democracy has
ceased to exist, the Judiciary and the rule of law have become a farce and now,
the very existence of the Tamil people is under threat. With corruption, nepotism,
serious debt-repayment, an escalating cost of living, and the resort to violence
by the Government, whatever the problem, the country is heading for a Failed
State.
While the elite (the Rajapkasas and their henchmen) journey to a destination
somewhere near the top of the world, the dispossessed are spiralling down to
chaos. This climate of frustration, fear, anger and national disillusionment is the
perfect breeding ground, history tells us, for Totalitarianism and Fascism.
Increasing concerns
There have been widespread concerns that the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM) will be held in Sri Lanka (15-17 November 2013),
because of extensive violation of human rights in Sri Lanka. It is a relief that 10
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days ago, the Prime Minister of India, and, two days ago, the Prime Minister of
Mauritius, decided to join the long-standing decision of the Prime Minister of
Canada, not to attend CHOGM.
The commendable decision by all three countries is very important. Canada is a
major Commonwealth country, India is the most important regional power, and
Mauritius an Indian Ocean country which is scheduled to host the next CHOGM in
2015. It is regrettable that India is sending its Foreign Minister and not some
inconsequential person as Canada is doing.
Although British Prime Minister, David Cameron, will be going to CHOGM, he has
just released a statement of serious concern, after he watched the newly
released (UK) Channel 4 film No Fire Zone:No Fire Zone is one of the most chilling documentaries Ive watched. It brings
home the brutal end to the civil war and the immense suffering of thousands of
innocent civilians who kept hoping that they would reach safety, but tragically
many did not. Many of the images are truly shocking..I will raise my concerns
when I see President Rajapaksa next week in Colombo. And I will tell him that if
Sri Lanka doesnt deliver an independent investigation, the world will need to
ensure an international investigation is carried out instead.
Prime Minister Camerons statement is one of the strongest made by the Head of
State of any country on the need for an international investigation into what has
occurred in Sri Lanka. This has been repeatedly stressed by the High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay.
Mahinda Rajapaksha tells Jonathan Miller he is NOT

concerned by war crimes allegations.
The chaos in Sri Lanka
Is there chaos in Sri Lanka? Well, here is the situation, you decide.
Every internationally credible Human Rights organisation, Amnesty International
(AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and International Crisis Group (ICG), in a series
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of reports this year (2013) have detailed Sri Lankas disastrous human rights
record, the drift to authoritarianism and the silencing of dissent.
Democracy has been replaced by a Totalitarian State, the separation of powers
which are the pillars of Democracy, no longer exist. Parliament has been reduced
to an irrelevancy by the Executive President with sweeping powers. The UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, after a recent visit, said the country
is showing signs of heading in an increasingly authoritarian direction,
There has been Government interference with Judicial independence, including
the removal of the Chief Justice and her replacement by a Government stooge.
The Media has been silenced or made into a mouthpiece of the Government.
International Media organisations have stated that Sri Lanka is one of the most
dangerous places in the world for independent journalists and free speech.
Involuntary disappearances are a daily occurrence (the second highest in the
world after Iraq). There is rampant corruption at all levels, and a Police force
which is the most corrupt in the world. There is, what can be termed, An
epidemic of Rape of Tamil women, girls and even men, in the North and East by
the Sinhalese Security Forces (!), the Police and others working with the
Government.
A massive Army out of control runs the Tamil North and East, and treats the area
as conquered territory and the people as the spoils of war. There is a failure to
provide a reason for the need for such a huge Army of 230,000 the highest per
capita of the population in any country in the world.
Thousands of (Tamil) people are in prison or illegal detention centres, and held
without charge or trial.
Sri Lanka has been dragged before the UN Human Rights Council, with more to
follow. A disastrous Report by the UN Secretary Generals Panel of Experts into
Accountability says that Sri Lanka has a case to answer. There are increasing
international demands for an independent inquiry into war crimes and crimes
against humanity, and even Genocide of the Tamils.
A deluge of reports by internationally credible Human Rights organisations have
expressed serious concern. The Government has refused to allow these
organisations, one of them (Amnesty International), a Nobel Prize winner, not to
mention the UN Secretary Generals Panel of Experts, to enter the country, and
see what is going on behind the closed and censored doors of Sri Lanka.
Is this chaos? It certainly looks like it.
Sorting out the chaos
Sri Lanka has had 65 years to sort out the problems left by the British when they
quit in 1948, effectively handing over power to the Sinhalese, despite serious
(and as it turned out, justifiable) fears expressed by the Tamils. A succession of
Sinhalese leaders chose to go down the path of political opportunism in favour of
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the majority Sinhalese (76% of the country) by discriminating against the Tamils.
Britain and the Commonwealth did nothing. Indeed, they have actively
encouraged Sinhalese governments to do what they want in total violation of the
Independence Constitution which set out the conditions under which Ceylon
was given its independence from British colonial rule.
If Britain is part of the problem, it must also be part of the solution. This has
certainly has not been done. On the contrary, the outrageous decision to allow
Sri Lanka to host the 2013 CHOGM would seem to be a reward for violating the
core values of the Commonwealth. It is a disgraceful decision that will have a
serious impact on the relevance of the Commonwealth, and the credibility of
Britain.
British responsibility
In order to understand the chaos in Sri Lanka, and why it is unsuitable to host
CHOGM, or even be in the Commonwealth, it is important to appreciate what has
happened in that country and the failure of the Commonwealth in general,
Britain in particular, to act.
Ceylon (renamed Sri Lanka in Sri Lankas Republican Constitution of 1972) is a
British colonial construct that has failed. For hundreds of years there have been
three Kingdoms the Tamil Kingdom in the North (Tamil), the Kandyan
Kingdom in the centre (Kandyan Sinhalese), and the Kotte Kingdom in the South
West (Low-country Sinhalese). These Kingdoms were essentially separate
States or Nations, each with its own people, customs, culture, and way of life.
A Nation
A Nation is a historically evolved, stable community of language, territory,
economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a community of culture.
It is generally accepted that that a nation possesses a common ethnic identity, a
continuous linguistic and cultural tradition, a defined territory as a homeland, a
common way of life and shared historical experience.
It is all these together that generate in a nation a sense of collective
consciousness which gives it the capacity and will for political organisation.
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It is clear that Sri Lanka has two vibrant nations a Sinhalese Nation and a Tamil
Nation.
In most cases where two or more nations live together in a single country, the
political structure is federal, each nation having an autonomous state or regional
government. It is this autonomy, and in the inviolability of its territory, that a
nation in a multi-ethnic country finds its security for the preservation of its
separate identity, language and culture.
This 3-nation country, Ceylon, was successively occupied by the Portuguese,
Dutch and the British.
In 1505, the Portuguese occupied the Sinhalese Kotte Kingdom (Low-country
Sinhalese), and the Tamil Kingdom (Tamil), followed by the Dutch in 1656, and
the British in 1796.
The Kandyan Kingdom (Kandyan Sinhalese) which withstood the Portuguese and
Dutch, and early British attempts at conquest, was ceded to the British by the
Kandyan chiefs in 1815.
Despite getting control of the whole country for the fist time, the British
continued to administer the three Kingdoms as separate entities.
A Colonial construct
In 1833, there was a serious change. The colonial British, for administrative ease,
abolished the separate administration (unified the country), and centralised
power in Colombo in the (Sinhalese) South West the Colebrooke-Cameron socalled Reforms. So, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) is a British colonial construct.
The colonial British were well aware of the ethnic divisions. In 1799, Sir Hugh
Cleghorn, the first Colonial Secretary of Ceylon, wrote the famous Cleghorn
Minute:
Two different nations, from very ancient period, have divided between them the
possession of the island: the Sinhalese inhabiting the interior in the South and
Western parts ..and the Malabars(another name for Tamils) who possess the
Northern and Eastern Districts. These two nations differ entirely in their religions,
language and manners.
In 1833, they were brought together by British fiat (the Colebrooke-Cameron
Reforms). During the colonial period, they lived in union but not unity.
The unification of the country, and particularly the centralisation of
administration in Colombo, has been a disaster. It resulted in the development,
indeed the overdevelopment of Colombo, and the developmental neglect of the
periphery, which included the entire Tamil area and the deep Sinhalese South.
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This British colonial construct, glued and held together by colonial might, started
to get unstuck when the British left. It is claimed that the Tamils in the North and
East who want a Separate Tamil State, Tamil Eelam, are trying to break up a tiny
country. For a start, Sri Lanka (25,200 sq miles) is not a tiny country. If divided,
the Sinhalese State, 18,000 sq miles is larger than 63 UN nations, the Tamil
State, 7,200 sq miles is larger than 38 UN countries.
The first people who demanded a division of the country were not the Tamils, as
is popularly believed, but the Kandyan Sinhalese.
In 1927, the British sent a Commission headed by the Earl of
Donoughmore to visit Ceylon and report on the working of the existing
constitution.. Many organisations submitted memoranda. The Kandyan
National Assembly (Kandyan Sinhalese) requested a Federal system:
Ours is.a claim of a nation to live its own life and realize its own destiny..We
suggest the creation of a Federal State as in the United States of AmericaA
Federal systemwill enable the respective nations of the several states to
prevent further inroads into their territories and to build their own nationality.
This can very well be applied to the Tamils.
The very least that the departing British could have done was to have left a
political structure that was Federal. However, the British were only interested in
making sure that the supply of tea (at ridiculously low prices) and their military
bases in Trincomalee and Colombo, were in safe Sinhalese hands.
Before dealing with the transfer of power, it is important to set out the British
strategy in dealing with their colonies. The British politician, Lord Macaulay wrote
his historic Minute in 1835 (in a comparable situation in India):
We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and
the millions we govern; a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but British
in taste, in opinions, morals and intellect.
Bluntly put, it was to produce a class of Black Englishmen.
Independence
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Because of my family connections, I was physically there to witness the transfer

of power that took place on 4 February 1948. At the appointed hour, the Rt Hon
D.S. Senanayake, (a school drop-out), mounted the podium in a pin-striped suit
and tail-coat (looking as British as they come) to receive the instruments of the
transfer of power from the Duke of Gloucester, representing King George VI.
While the Black Englishmen rejoiced in celebrations with visiting British Royalty
and scions of nobility, I doubted whether it meant much for the millions of
ordinary Ceylonese.
Soon, through the arithmetic of the ballot box and Sinhalese majoritarianism and
chauvinism, it became clear that what had been won was independence for
the Sinhalese. The Tamils were left with assurances and Section 29 of the
Independence Constitution which guaranteed protection for the minorities at
the hands of the majority Sinhalese. All this turned out to be nothing but pieces
of paper, which were torn up by a succession of Sinhalese leaders. What did
Britain do at this act of blatant violation of their Independence Constitution?
Nothing.
Section 29
This is a critically important section of the Independence Constitution. It was
the only guarantee that minorities had to protect them from majority (Sinhalese)
rule and possible discrimination. It prohibited the making of any law that was
discriminatory against persons of any community or religion. In a Court Case that
went before the Privy Council in Britain, Section 29 was deemed to be
unalterable an entrenched provision in the Constitution. It stated:
They (Section 2 (a) (b) (c) and (d)) represent the solemn balance of rights
between the citizens of Ceylon, the fundamental condition on which inter alia
they accepted the Constitution, and these are therefore unalterable under the
Constitution.
If the Section 29 (2) safeguards were unacceptable to the Sinhalese or the
Tamils, then the Constitution itself would have been unacceptable and there
would have been no transfer of power and no independence.
The Ceylon Parliament therefore had no power or competence to alter, amend or
repeal Section 29(2). That could only be done by the King/Queen in Council or
the British parliament with Royal assent.
However, that is precisely what the Sri Lankan Government under Sirima
Bandaranaike and her Marxist allies did in 1972 to draw up a new Constitution
in which Section 29 (2) was dropped (and the name of the country changed from
Ceylon to Sri Lanka). It was therefore a violation of the Constitution as it stood,
and hence illegal.
What did Britain do at this gross violation of the Constitution which removed all
the safeguards that the Tamils had at the hands of the Sinhalese? Nothing.
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Having cleared the way for discrimination, the Sri Lankan government under
Sirima Bandaranaike did just that got into blatant discrimination against the
Tamils. What did Britain do? Nothing.
A Presidential dictatorship
Worse was to follow. Life under Mrs Bandaranaikes Sri Lanka Freedom Party and
her Marxist allies became impossible, with a loss of personal liberties, arbitrary
arrests and detention without charge or trial, a breakdown in the rule of law and
the independence of the judiciary.
J.R. Jayawardene, from the other side of the political divide, the United National
Party (UNP), pledged that he would usher in what he called a government that
was dharmista (just and righteous). What he did not say was that it would be
just and righteous in terms of Sinhalese-Buddhists!
He was swept into power with the necessary 2/3 majority to do what he wanted.
He did just that. He created the position of an Executive President with sweeping
powers and then promoted himself to the position. A Democracy (of sorts) was
replaced by a frank Presidential Dictatorship. What did Britain and the
Commonwealth do? Nothing.
In November 1982, Jayawardene decided that General Elections were not
necessary, and extended the life of Parliament for six years, without holding an
election. Thus, the Parliament in which the UNP held a five-sixths majority,
elected in July 1977 (which was to end in 1983) would continue until 1989. It is
well known that had Elections been held in 1983, the UNP would have been
decimated. If it was, Jayawardene would have had to go. Even if his party had
been re-elected, there was no way that they could have obtained a five-sixths
majority to allow Jayawardene continue his iron grip. What did Britain and the
The damage that Jayawardene did to democracy is overwhelming and probably
irreversible. The Sri Lankan President is more powerful and less accountable than
any President anywhere in the world. Indeed the current President Mahinda
Rajapaksa has removed any remaining restraints (the 18 th Amendment to the
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Constitution) and made himself even more powerful and given himself the ability
to remain as President for as long as he choses.
The reaction of Britain and the Commonwealth to this omnipotent President with
sweeping powers and no accountability, who could do, and did, what he likes, is
to reward him with CHOGM and make him the Chairperson-in-Office for the
Commonwealth for the next two years! This is what will happen at CHOGM in
November 2013, attended by Prince Charles, the British Prime Minister, David
Cameron, and the Heads of all the Commonwealth countries, except
(commendably) Canada and, in the past 2 weeks (significantly) India, and in the
past few days, Mauritius.
Discrimination
The first Act of the newly independent country, Ceylon, in 1948, now under the
Sinhalese, was to decitizenise and disenfranchise a million Plantation Indian
Tamils, who had been brought there in the mid 1850s from India to work on the
(British) tea estates. One seventh of the population of the country (at that time)
were made non-people, in one of the worst acts of political barbarism anywhere
in the world. The Tamils lost 40% of their parliamentarians because non-people
could not be represented. This was done under the nose of the British Governor
in independent Ceylon. What did the British do about this outrage? Nothing.
This was done the very year that Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) joined seven other
countries to form the (British) Commonwealth!
Having dealt with the Indian Tamils, the Sinhalese leaders turned on the
ethnic Tamils. To get the support of the Sinhalese majority (74 % of the
population), they started systematic discrimination against the Tamil minority. I
must stress an important point. The Tamils were not a minority. They were
made into a minority by the British when they unified the country. They were
an overwhelming majority in their Kingdom the Jaffna Kingdom.
Anti-Tamil discrimination was serious. In 1956, they lost their language when
English, the Official Language, was replaced by Sinhala only, to the exclusion of
Tamil. In 1972, Tamils, especially from Jaffna, had to obtain a higher mark than
the Sinhalese to enter the University, in what was blatant educational
discrimination.
There was discrimination in employment. From 1956-1976, of 189,000 recruited
to the public sector, 95% were Sinhalese. The Armed Forces and Police are 99.9%
and 95% respectively Sinhalese. It is simply not possible for a Tamil to get into
the Armed Forces.
There has been a government-sponsored demographic change in the Tamil East
in favour of the Sinhalese. This has now escalated. The electoral consequences
are obvious.
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Standing as equals with the Sinhalese in subordination to the colonial British, the
Tamils for a time became junior partners, and by the 1960s had been reduced
to a subject people under the rule of Sinhalese masters.
Non-violence
The Tamil leaders launched a series of Gandhi-style non-violent protests at this
obvious discrimination. The protesting Tamils were beaten up and even killed by
Sinhalese hoodlums, backed by the Government. What action did the
Commonwealth take at this unacceptable behaviour of a (British) Commonwealth
country? None.
At the slightest provocation, and sometimes for no identifiable reason, the
Tamils have been beaten and sometimes killed by Sinhalese hoodlums and
thugs, supported by the Government and Sinhalese chauvinist bigots in yellow
robes, the politically-active Buddhist monks.
Violence
With the failure of the democratic process and non-violence to achieve anything,
in 1972 Tamil youths in the Tamil North and East decided to pick up arms, as the
African National Congress did in Apartheid South Africa. It was a liberation
struggle to liberate the Tamil people from Sinhalese domination and
discrimination. What did Britain and the Commonwealth do? They branded the
Tamil militants as terrorists, banned them, and helped the Sri Lankan
government to crush them and the civilian population. The human cost was
enormous some 70,000 Tamil civilians killed, in addition to the Tamil militants.
Crushing Tamil Tiger Terrorism was the claim.
It is of interest that a year earlier (1971) in the South, disadvantaged Sinhalese
youths had done exactly the same, because of a developmental neglect of the
periphery, a consequence of the centralisation of power in Colombo. They were
crushed with the loss of some 7,000 young Sinhalese lives. They rose again in
1988, and were crushed again with the loss of more than 40,000 lives. What did
Britain, and the Commonwealth, in particular India, do? They helped the Sri
Lankan regime in this mass murder calling it an insurrection.
Anti-Tamil pograms
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It has been wrongly claimed that on 19 May 2009, the 26 year civil war
between the Tamils and the Sinhalese came to an end. This is plainly wrong.
There has not been a civil war in Sri Lanka since 1915 (and that was between
the Sinhalese and the Muslims). What there has been are a series of pogroms,
wanton killing of Tamils, in 1956, 1958, 1961, 1977, 1981 and 1983.
Then came the Final Solution after Rajapaksa became President in November
2005 the genocidal killing of Tamils. The agenda of the Rajapaksa junta was to
make multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual and multireligious Sri Lanka, into a
Sinhala-Buddhist Nation. What did Britain and the Commonwealth do at this
extreme ethno-religious chauvinism? Nothing.
With all this slaughter, what has the Commonwealth done? Nothing.
Worse still many Commonwealth countries actually helped the Sinhalese
regime to wipe out the Tamils.
President Rajapaksa and his cronies are not alone in this criminality. His
predecessor, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, decided, in 2005,
to carpet-bomb Jaffna with half a million Tamil civilians who had a right to be
there. It resulted in a mass exodus, referred to as The Exodus, as hundreds of
thousands of Tamils, men, women, children, the sick and the elderly, fled the
Jaffna Peninsula.
What did the Commonwealth do? Nothing. Even Boutros Boutros-Ghali[1], the
then UN Secretary General expressed concern at the humanitarian tragedy.
When those who fled returned to their homes, more than 1,000 were taken into
custody. Some 900 of them disappeared, their bodies found in mass graves in
Chemmani, in the Jaffna Peninsula. The brigadier in charge, Janaka Perera, who
was responsible for this outrage, was rewarded by President Kumaratunga by
being sent as the Sri Lankan Ambassador to a Commonwealth country, Australia!
It is not that Australia was unaware of the background of this mass-murderer. I
made sure that the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs was informed. I
even got a TV station to put together a TV program to show the atrocities that
Janaka Perera had committed. A representative of Amnesty International, an
Australian Forensic scientist who was there in Chemmani for the exhumation,
and an eye witness to these atrocities appeared on the program, aired at prime
time on Sundays Channel 9 program.
I went to Canberra to see the Australian Foreign Ministry, with documented
evidence to criminally implicate the new Sri Lankan Ambassador. I was told that
he was the most decorated military officer in Sri Lanka. I responded,
Decorated for making Tamil (and for that matter, Sinhalese) people disappear?
Diplomats from other Commonwealth countries in Canberra were well aware of
the background of this mass murderer. What did they do? Nothing.
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This is important because history does repeat itself. Rajapaksas war criminals
who should be taken to the International Court of Justice, are being sent as Sri
Lankan Ambassadors to several countries, Commonwealth countries included,
and even to the United Nations and other international organisations. What has
the Commonwealth done? Nothing. In fact, they welcomed these people who had
blood on their hands. In passing, Australias surrent Sri Lankan Ambassador was
the Head of the Sri Lankan Navy that shelled unarmed Tamil civilians and whose
ships prevented the sick and injured from seeking medical help that was not
available in the area. What has Australia done about this man? Nothing.
The Final solution
Then came the Final assault by Rajapaksa and his cronies to wipe out the Tamils
in acts that were Crimes against Humanity, if not genocide. Commonwealth
countries, India and Britain included (and of course China), supplied the
weapons, funds and even the expertise to help with the slaughter.
When the Rajapaksa junta expelled all international humanitarian agencies,
including the UN workers, before committing the mass slaughter, what did the
What has the Commonwealth done to hold the mass murderers accountable?
Nothing.
Interference with the Judiciary
This is serious. It includes the impeachment and removal of the Chief Justice, Dr
Shirani Bandaranayake, by President Rajapkasa on 13 January 2013. The Divi
Neguma Bill created numerous community organisations, banks and banking
societies. It would be controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development
headed by President Rajapaksas brother, Basil Rajapaksa, and would carry out
development activities. According to the Constitution of Sri Lanka most
development activities are devolved to the Provincial Councils. The Bills
constitutionality was challenged, and Chief Justice Bandaranayake and two other
Supreme Court Judges held that it cannot become law unless it was endorsed by
every provincial council.
The Government controlled eight of the nine provincial councils but the ninth
provincial council, in the North, had not been functioning as an elected body
since it was established in 2007. The Bill was approved by theNorthern
Provinces Governor G. A. Chandrasiri, a former Army Officer and an appointee of
President Rajapaksa.
The Chief Justice held that this was inadequate and that the Northern Provincial
Council had to sign off on the Bill.
This irritated the President who decided that the Chief Justice had to go.
Geoffrey Robertson QC recently addressed a meeting in London where he
referred to this:
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I wrote a report earlier this year for the Bar of England and Wales on the
removal of the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka by the Government. Removal of her for
bringing in a decision that the 9thProvince , the Northern Province, largely the
Tamil province of Sri Lanka, should not have its assent assumed by the Governor
who had been forced on it by the Government.
It was a very important decision, it was a correct decision as the Constitution
stood but because it angered the President and prevented the Divi Neguma Bill
going through, which upset his relatives who all seem to be Ministers in the
government, they moved against her and in a break of judicial independence
and in a betrayal of the principles that should govern the Commonwealth, they,
the MPs of the government party, voted to have the President dismiss her. They
voted corruptly, and they voted wrongly.
It seemed to me that those MPs who behaved so badly in destroying judicial
independence in Sri Lanka shouldnt be allowed to enter this country, they
should not be allowed to put their children in schools in this country, we should
say that once you break human rights so obviously by getting rid of a judge for
doing her duty, then we should have nothing to do with you.
The current humanitarian situation in the Tamil North and East
This is a disaster, well-documented by International Human Rights groups, the
UN Panel of Experts appointed by UN Secretary General to look into
accountability in the closing stages of the war, and by outstandingly brave
people such as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Mannar, Rt Rev Dr Rayappu Joseph
and the Catholic clergy in Jaffna and Tamil Civil Society.
Has Britain or the Commonwealth countries acted? No, they are not interested. It
is certainly not for lack of information of the situation behind the closed and
censored doors of Rajapaksas Sri Lanka.
I will briefly summarise this here. A more comprehensive account is not possible
because of the constraints of space. Nor is it possible to deal with the disastrous
evolving situation in the Sinhalese South. The violence that was turned on the
Tamils in the North and East is now being turned on the Muslims and Sinhalese in
the South. More is in store from a Government whose only solution to any
problem is violence. It is a murderous policy which will achieve nothing
certainly not national reconciliation or Peace with Justice a Just Peace.
Militarisation
The Tamil North and East are under military occupation that treats the area as
conquered territory and the people (Tamils) as the spoils of war. The military is
99.9% Sinhalese, while the population is predominantly Tamil.
18 Divisions of out of the 20 Divisions in the Sri Lankan military, are stationed in
the North and East, the homeland of the Tamils. The military-to-civilian ratio is
1:5.
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Military occupation
The (Sinhalese) military and (Sinhalese) Police are everywhere in the Tamil North
and East. They can do whatever they want to anyone they want, with no
accountability.
The widespread mental state among Tamil civilians in the area is fear. People are
just silent not without reason.
Military taking over local economic activity
The military are engaged in a variety of economic activity, from agriculture to
running shops and cafes. Large areas of fertile land belonging to the Tamil people
have been taken over by the military. The Tamil people are unable to challenge
this because the military has the full backing of the Government. They are
unable to take legal action because the police (95% Sinhalese) and the legal
system are dysfunctional and pro-government.
The Tamil people can only watch, as their lands and businesses are taken over
and run by the military, or by Sinhalese brought by the Government from the
South and given State-subsidies to do whatever they want. Such subsidies are
not available to Tamils.
Military in key administrative positions
Many key positions in civilian administration are filled by former military men
who have a case to answer for the massacre of the Tamil people during the
conflict. The Governor of the Northern Province is Major Gen G.A.Chandrasiri
(former Jaffna Security Forces Commander), and the Governor of the Eastern
Province is Rear Admiral Mohan Wijewickrema (former Navy Chief of Staff).
Several others hold other administrative positions, despite having no experience
in these areas.
Military settlements
Thousands of acres belonging to Tamil civilians, in proximity to military camps
have been taken by the military for military bases and to permanently house the
families of military personnel (all of whom are Sinhalese) and governmentsponsored Sinhalese civilians from the South.
Sinhalese civilian settlements
Sinhalese civilians from outside the Tamil areas have been offered incentives to
settle in the Tamil areas, with the clear agenda of changing the demography of
the area Sinhalisation of the Tamil areas. They have been offered round-theclock protection from the rightful owners of the land by the Sinhalese Police and
military.
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The electoral consequences are obvious. If this continues (which it will if no

action is taken), the Tamil people will have no representation in Parliament . They
will be non-people.
Sexual assaults on the Tamil civilians
In an upcoming publication: An Epidemic of Rape of Tamil women, girls and men
in the Tamil North and East by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, Police, Sinhalese
settlers, and Tamil paramilitary forces working with the Sri Lankan
Government, I will detail this serious problem, which has been documented by
human rights groups (Human Rights Watch) and others. What has been
documented is a fraction of the real situation because the vast majority of cases
go unreported because of shame or fear.
The vulnerable
There are 90,000 widows, 30,000 orphans and 25,000 disabled people, and
thousands who have lost their livelihood because of the policy of the Sri Lankan
government and the military. Is the Commonwealth concerned about this
massive humanitarian problem? If it is, there is certainly no evidence of this not
even the expression of concern, let alone action to address this problem.
The immediate admission of internationally credible human rights organisations
such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and International Crisis
Group, to the area is mandatory and urgent.
Houses
Some 200,000 houses were damaged during the war and are now uninhabitable.
The Sri Lankan government has done nothing to address this problem. The Indian
government offered to build 50,000 homes, which the Sri Lankan government
obstructed.
Just 1,000 homes have been built over the past four years, and these have been
handed over, not to those who lost their homes but to those with connections to
the ruling regime who have never been in this (Tamil) area, and former members
of the military (Sinhalese).
The missing
Using the Governments own records, the Bishop of Mannar, Rt Rev Dr Rayappu
Joseph, presented figures to the LLRC, to show that 146,679 people in the Vanni
(in the Tamil area) were unaccounted for. The government has failed to explain
this (or to produce evidence that the claim was invalid).
Detainees
Despite claims to the contrary by the Sri Lankan government, there are
thousands of Tamils held in detention without charge or trial in prisons and
(illegal) detention centres. It is in an attempt to conceal this that the Government
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refuses to allow international human rights groups access to the area, and even
to the country.
The faade of development
Development is indeed happening in the war-torn areas, but it is a development
of roads, military bases, Buddhist monuments and shrines.
Developing what the Tamil people urgently need, a place to live in, and access to
their homes and land, is simply not happening.
The problem is compounded by visitors, especially expatriate Tamils, who fly into
the area, have a superficial look at these developments, leave and then claim
that all is well. They most certainly do not talk with the ordinary civilians whose
lives are shattered and remain so.
The military and freedom of association and speech
The military is present at every event. A circular has been sent to all government
departments and schools that no function can be held without the presence of
the military. Not even funerals or a private function are exceptions. It is a degree
of militarisation unmatched in any country in the world.
High Security Zones
Large areas of Tamil-owned land have been declared High Security Zones, out
of bounds to civilians. This has nothing to do with Security but to do with
excluding Tamil people from existing. This land-grab by the military and the
Sinhalese government is illegal, an act typical of a Totalitarian regime that can do
what it wants with no accountability.
The escalating military budget
The average defence budget during the peak of the military conflict in 2008 was
Rs 166 billion. This increased in 2009 to Rs 175 bn. After the end of the armed
conflict, it has escalated.
In 2011 the Government spent Rs 214 bn ($1.92 bn), which increased to Rs 230
bn ($ 2.1 bn) in 2011. The defence budget for 2013 stands at Rs 290 bn ($ 2.2
bn).
With the Tamil Tigers crushed and the armed conflict over, it is pertinent to ask
the Sri Lankan government, who the enemy is to justify this escalating military
budget. It cannot be to defend the country against an external enemy since none
exists.
Genocide of the Tamil people
There is overwhelming evidence that the agenda of the Sri Lankan government is
to wipe out the Tamils in the North and East. This is Genocide, as defined in the
Genocide Convention signed by Sri Lanka in 1950: Resolution 260, Article 2
states: Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
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destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. In Sri

Lanka, the part of the ethnic group is the part that lives in the North and East.
At a recent (28 September 2013) Conference in London on Genocide in Sri
Lanka, Geoffrey Robertson QC had this to say:
I have spoken to so many of the sufferings, the appalling sufferings, of the
Tamil community in the 2009 Genocide probably, certainly a Crime against
Humanity, which was committed against them by the Government (of Sri Lanka)
and the Armed Forces.
What is serious is that it is continuing- Slow Genocide as Madeline Albright put
it in relation to another conflict.
Tamils ceasing to exist as a people
In February 2012, in the run-up to the 19 th Session of the UN Human Rights
Council (27 February- 23 March 2012), 19 Tamils, non-politicians, Civil Society,
including Rt Rev Dr Rayappu Joseph, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Mannar, sent
a letter to the US:
The Sri Lankan Governments current activities in the North and East are
challenging the very existence of the Tamil people and more time to the GOSL to
implement the LLRCs recommendations will only mean further time for the
Government to play havoc in the North and East and subjugate the interests and
aspirations of the Tami people. If the International Community does not act now,
like they did not act in May 2009, the Tamils will cease to exist as a people in
the country. Ceasing to exist as a people is Genocide.
Extermination (of the Tamils)
The 124 page, Report of The UN Secretary Generals Panel of Experts into
Accountability in Sri Lanka(released 31 March 2011), was the most serious
indictment of the Sri Lankan government ever published. Section 251 (page 68)
referred to what happened as Extermination.
Under the ICC (International Criminal Court) Statute, extermination includes
Intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to
food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the
population Article 7(2)(b).
The fact that these senior lawyers with international credibility should use the
word extermination is highly significant. Extermination is Genocide.
This is not just matter of words. If Genocide, or extermination, or ceasing to exist
as a people is in progress, then international intervention is mandatory to save
the population at risk.
International independent investigation
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Every international human rights organisation, the UN Expert Panel into

accountability and the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Navi Pillai, have all
called for an independent international investigation into war crime and crimes
against humanity that occurred in the Tamil North and East.
The Sri Lankan government has refused absolutely to allow this, claiming
absurdly that there were zero civilian casualties! The Government insists that
an investigation can be done by Sri Lankans the LLRC (Lesson Learnt and
Reconciliation Commission).
This is seriously flawed as was pointed out by AI, HRW and ICG when invited to
attend. AI followed this up with an extensive article, When will they get
justice (see below).
This is what Geoffrey Robertson QC thought:
So, under this pressure, particularly and importantly and valuably, pressure
from Hilary Clinton, on behalf of the United States, Rajapaksa established in May
2011, the so-called Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. But this
was a sham truth commission packed with former Government officials which
wasnt interested in establishing the truth but rather in supporting the
Governments propaganda. It had no power to protect witnesses who dared to
criticize the Army, and human rights groups simply refused to cooperate with it.
The Report was published in December 2011. It concentrated on condemning the
Tigers, it white-washed the military which it claimed, obviously dishonestly,
given quote: The highest priority to protecting civilians.
Well, this was an obvious lie and the Report increased the lies by attributing
blame for the murder and rapes of Tamils that had obviously happened, to rogue
elements in the Army rather than to officers or commanders.
The demand for an independent international investigation will continue to grow,
not least by the UN Human Rights Commissioner at the next UN Human Rights
Council meeting in Geneva (March 2014).
I have already quoted the just released statement by David Cameron, the British
Prime Minister, which is highly significant. To quote this again (because of its
importance), he said, I will tell him (President Rajapaksa) that if Sri Lanka
doesnt deliver an independent investigation, the world will need to ensure an
international investigation is carried out instead.
These fine words must be backed by action. Trade between the UK and Sri Lanka
is not insignificant. All that Prime Minister Cameron has to do is the state clearly
that if the human rights outrage does not stop, the victims not compensated and
rehabilitated which must be checked by international observers, there will be
trade sanctions.
I am not suggesting something outrageous since this is exactly what was done to
another Commonwealth country, South Africa, by Britain and Commonwealth
countries, which compelled South Africa to dismantle its apartheid policy.
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Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

The idea of R2P is relatively new in formal terms, bringing a sense of an
international duty of care to the conduct of world affairs. In a less formal sense,
R2P or the duty of care towards others, is as old as humanity.
The new formal term is a United Nations initiative established in 2005. It is based
on the (correct) belief thatsovereignty is not a right, but entails responsibilities
for states to provide protection and security for their populations.R2P focuses on
preventing and halting four crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against
humanity, and ethnic cleansing, which it places under the generic umbrella term
of mass atrocity crimes. The R2P has three foundation pillars:
1. A state has a responsibility to protect its population from genocide, war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing.
2. The international community has a responsibility to assist the state to
fulfill its primary responsibility.
3. If the state manifestly fails to protect its citizens from the four above mass
atrocities and peaceful measures have failed, the international community
has the responsibility to intervene through coercive measures such as
economic sanctions. Military intervention is considered the last resort.
In the international community R2P is a norm, not a law. However it is grounded
in international law. R2P provides a framework for using tools that already exist,
i.e. mediation, early warning mechanisms, economic sanctioning, to prevent
mass atrocities. If these fail, there is the provision to militarily intervene. Civil
society organizations, States, regional organizations, and international
institutions all have a role to play in the R2P process.
Professor Damien Kingsbury, at the School of International and Political Science,
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, has written an entire book in 2012
on Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect. Politics, ethnicity and
Genocide[2] The case to apply R2P to Sri Lanka is very strong.
Genocide in Sri Lanka Conference in London, September 2013
There was an important Conference in London, September 28 th and 29th 2013, on:
Accountability for Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka. Its significance for the world
Two world famous lawyers (among others) spoke. Of particular importance were
the two addresses, one[3] by Geoffrey Robertson QC, a British barrister and a
leading authority on Crimes against Humanity, and the other[4] by Professor
Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College
of Law, UrbanaChampaign, Illinois, USA. Their addresses (on the net) are
crucially important. I will publish both of them.
They set out clearly and unequivocally, the legal options available to take the
criminals in Sri Lanka, to the UN Human Rights Committee, an organ of the
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United Nations, and the International Criminal Court. The action is not only to
bring those who are responsible for Crimes against Humanity and even
Genocide, before the Bar of International Justice, but to enable compensation
and restitution for the thousands of innocent people who have suffered.
I have been in communication with both of them. The financial cost of doing this
is negligible, given the level of expertise.
Self-determination
This is a critically important issue. Independence for ethnic minorities whether
indigenous or not is promised in the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (ICCPR) which has been signed and ratified by Sri Lanka (and
almost all the countries in the world). Article 1 states that All peoples have the
right of self-determination.
While international lawyers can argue that the collective noun peoples refers
to all the inhabitants of eachexisting State, this merely gives power to the
majorities and not the minorities.
Since the UN Charter (Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the
United Nations on 10 December 1948 the year that Sri Lanka got Independence
from colonial Britain), the right of self-determination has implied the right of a
territory to decide the status of their homeland (by a free and genuine vote) for
independent Statehood, integration with another State, or through some form of
political association (such as autonomy within it).
The irrational qualification to self-determination has been the uti
possidentis rule that its exercise must not involve changes to existing frontiers
(or borders) other than by agreement between the States concerned. Since
States rarely concede territory, uti possidentis has prevented the early
resolution of disputes before they erupt into ethnic violence. This is precisely
what has happened in Sri Lanka, and why it might well erupt in the future unless
this absurd refusal to agree to self-determination is removed, and people are
given a free choice.
What do International Human Rights groups think?
There has been a deluge of reports expressing serious concern at what is going
on in Sri Lanka. Here are just a few.
1 Amnesty International on the LLRC
In September 2011, AI published a 67 page Report[5] which states that Sri
Lankas LLRC is not a credible accountability mechanism. Its mandate is seriously
flawed highlighting falls far short of international standards on national
commissions of inquiry. It points to the systematic failures of domestic
mechanisms to bring about justice, truth and reparations for victims.
2. Human Rights Watch on sexual violence
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On 26 February 2013, Human Rights Watch released a 140 page report, We Will
Teach You A Lesson Sexual Violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security
Forces[6]
The 140-page report provide detailed accounts of 75 cases of alleged rape and
sexual abuse that occurred from 2006-2012 in both official and secret detention
centres throughout Sri Lanka. The cases were very well documented, medically
and legally. It reported women and men being raped on multiple days, often by
several people, with the army, police, and pro-government paramilitary groups
frequently participating.
As the Report states, this is just a tiny fraction of the actual number of rape
cases because many cases were not reported to the Police (or anyone else)
because of shame or fear of reprisals. Even the people who did report the
incident could not be investigated because Sri Lanka refused entry visa to HRW.
3. Amnesty International on Dissent[7]
In April 2013, AI published a 74 page devastating Report:
Sri Lankas Assault on Dissent.
The opening sentence says it all: Dissent is a dangerous undertaking in Sri
Lanka.
It goes on:
One of the holdovers from Sri Lankas armed conflict is a security regime that
criminalizes freedom of expression, and an official attitude that equates dissent
with treason. Sri Lankan officials and state-owned media employ the term
traitor with alarming frequency against detractors, often threatening death or
injury to the person accused.
4. The International Crisis Group on Authoritarianism in Sri Lanka[8]
On 20 February 2013, in a 42-page Report, ICG stated The Government attack
on the Judiciary and political dissent have escalated Sri Lankas authoritarian
turn and threaten long-term stability and peace?
CHOGM (November 2013) goes on
Despite the overwhelming case that can be made (and has been made), CHOGM
November 2013, will be held in Sri Lanka in two days.
There have been some interesting incidents and decisions.
The Indian Prime Minister will not attend
After vacillating for months, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will not attend. This
was undoubtedly because of pressure exerted on him by Tamil Nadu, especially
by Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa.
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Welcome though this is, disappointingly he will send the Indian Foreign Secretary.
It would have enhanced Indias credibility if he had sent some insignificant
person, like what the Canadian Prime Minister did.
Nonetheless, a boycott by the Prime Minister of the most important country in
the area, India, is clearly very significant.
The Prime Minister of Mauritius will not attend
Mauritius Prime Minister Dr Navin Chandra Ramgoolam has just decided to
boycott CHOGM. He told Parliament that his decision was taken in the face of
absence of progress in Sri Lanka in respect of human rights, adding that he was a
man of principle. Mauritius will host the next CHOGM in 2015.
Australian and New Zealand parliamentarians harassed
Last week, Australian Green Senator, Lee Rhiannon and New Zealand Green MP,
Jan Logie, who went to Sri Lanka to look into the human rights situation, and
visited the Tamil North, had their passports confiscated when they tried to give a
press conference in Colombo before they left. Senator Rhiannon wrote of her
experience in The Guardian[9].
My detention highlights why Australia should boycott CHOGM
She wrote: I went to Sri Lanka to be the voice the Australian government has
refused to be. The voice that speaks of the human rights abuses that the Sri
Lankan government is allegedly involved in. The voice that is part of a growing
international call for an independent investigation into war
crimes allegations following a brutal civil war in which more than
approximately 40,000 Tamils were killed over five months in 2009. The voice of
leadership that says Australia will not reward Sri Lanka for cracking down on
journalists, human rights activists, minority ethnic and religious groups.
What I saw in Sri Lanka has convinced me that Australia needs to show courage
and boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), as the
prime ministers of Canada and India are doing.
It is important to quote what she found since it is so recent (November 2013).
We then had a series of meetings with elected representatives. We also
visited a newspaper office, where we learnt of shootings and intimidation of local
journalists reporting on human rights issues. On several occasions, the extent of
the sexual abuse of Tamil women by Sri Lankan soldiers was brought to our
attention. We met a lawyer who described to us the evidence collected about
these horrendous crimes.
Large areas of Tamil land are now occupied by the military. The level of hardship
for women and their dependents is shocking. More than 40,000 households in
the north and east of the country are now female -headed, and few of them
receive any government assistance if they cannot find work.
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Just before they left Sri Lanka, in a press release stating that they will have a
press-conference, they were more specific about sexual harassment.
Large numbers of women regularly suffer sexual abuse perpetrated by
members of the Sri Lankan armed forces. One lawyer described to us the
evidence collected about these crimes. In one case they have text messages
from Major General Mahinda Hathurusingha to the comfort women he
frequently abuses.
It has not been stated what was in the text-message. Perhaps it was Can you
come quickly? or Can I come right now? It is urgent. I do not really know. What
I do know is what a Major General in Rajapaksas military does. There is ample
evidence that he is not an exception.
The Green Parliamentarians concluded:
Clearly this is an unsafe country for journalists to work as those who commit
these crimes have not been investigated or charged. We were left with the
impression that the government is becoming increasingly repressive towards
those committed to a critical independent examination of events in Sri Lanka.
The Australian Prime Minister will go
Unsurprisingly, Tony Abbott will go. For once he was honest enough to admit why
he was going. In a comment in The Guardian he said what we all knew! He said
that Sri Lanka had been cooperative in taking back people arriving by boat and
Australia needed to maintain the best possible relations with the country to
hell with Commonwealth core values.
What was important to him was to take desperate asylum seekers who had fled a
barbaric regime, and return them to Sri Lanka. What would happen to them there
was not his concern. The Human Rights Watch has clearly documented what
happens to them torture, rape, and disappearances.
The Journalists will be there.
All arriving journalists will be given a 222-page book entitled Corrupted
Journalism. Channel 4 and Sri Lanka
Channel 4 News will be there
I was surprised to hear that (UK) Channel 4, which produced the awardwinning Sri Lankas Killing Fields, and No Fire Zone will be there.
Channel 4 News Editor Ben de Pear explained how they had been granted access
to Sri Lanka for the first time in four years. It was because the British Prime
Minister and Foreign Secretary refused to attend CHOGM without the full
complement of British press.
I have no doubt that the Rajapaksa junta will arrange a special welcome for
Channel 4 News perhaps hoodlums carrying placards accusing them of being
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Tamil Tigers which is now a generic term applied to all who question what the
Sri Lankan government is doing (or has done).
I wrote this some days ago. Last night it turned out to be true. On arrival in
Colombo, the Channel 4 News team, were met with welcome placards carried
by Sinhalese patriots, accusing Channel 4 of being in the pay of the Tamil
Tigers!
When the reporters (who included Ben de Pear, Director Channel 4 News Editor,
Callum Macrae, Director ofNo Fire Zone, Jonathan Miller) tried to get to Jaffna,
they were blocked. I gather that they tried to get a flight. Unsurprisingly, the
flight was cancelled.
They then decided to go by train to Vavuniya in the North. In the train were
supporters of the Rajapaksa regime and probably the military and police tailing
them. Some 5 hours into the trip, hooligans (patriots) blocked the train, with
scores standing on the rail track. They were told that there were protestors
blocking all the railway stations to Vavuniya.
Channel 4 contacted President Rajapaksa and asked him whether this was in
keeping with his promise to allow them to go anywhere and see the progress
that Sri Lanka had made. Orders were issued that the journalists be allowed to
travel.
I have no idea what happened later. I have no doubt that we will hear more from
Channel 4 News about Media freedom, the disappeared and much more.
An Alternative Human Rights Festival
In a commendable act of bravery, Brito Fernandos Right to Human Rights
Centre, Families of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka, has launched a parallel event,
Alternative Human Rights Festival 13-14 November in Colombo.
Three busloads of relatives of the disappeared on their way from Jaffna to
attend the Festival, were stopped by hooligans and thugs, clearly with the
backing of the Army and Police. I gather that the families of the disappeared
also disappeared!! With massive protests, they miraculously reappeared but
were forced to return to Jaffna.
I am not sure whether the Festival will continue, or be allowed to do so. It
probably will, whatever the risks and these are significant in the Democratic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as it is inappropriately called.
How come Sri Lanka is hosting CHOGM?
With widespread knowledge of extensive human rights violations, how is it that
Sri Lanka was picked to host CHOGM? Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary General of
the Commonwealth, has a case to answer. There is now evidence that he has
withheld crucial legal advice that could have prevented Sri Lanka from hosting
CHOGM.
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The legal opinion was that the firing of the Sri Lankan Chief Justice by President
Rajapaksa was a contravention of the Commonwealth Charter, which sets out
the supposed shared values of the member states: democracy, human rights and
the rule of law.
It should have been made available to a group of eight Commonwealth ministers
who verify if countries are obeying the Commonwealth Charter. It was not.
Questioned by Jon Snow on Channel 4 News, Sharma said that the advice had
been obtained in confidence.
There is no question that Kamalesh Sharma has to be sacked. Will he be? No, he
will not, because any demand for him to be shown the door, will upset his friend
and, (after the end of CHOGM), the Chairperson-in-Office, President Rajapaksa.
James Packers Casino
In my earlier article, Sri Lanka hosting CHOGM 2013. A serious problem, I said
that:
What goes on in the main meeting(s) might well be a farce, but the forums
that accompany CHOGM, CBF (Commonwealth Business Forum) in particular, is
anything but a farce. CBF is a gathering of businessmen from developed and
emerging markets that aim to promote trade and investment. It is a business
meeting, which has nothing to do with Commonwealth core values. It presents
a tremendous opportunity for the host nation to look at new partnerships and
business opportunities to hell with human rights, democracy or the rule of law.
I was therefore not in the least surprised to hear that James Packer (from
Australia) will be there to launch a Casino. I gather he will be the key-note
speaker at the CBF. A Casino is clearly needed, absolutely needed, to gamble
away ill-gotten riches. I cannot confirm the rumour that the foundation stone for
the Casino will be laid by none other than the Australian Prime Minister Tony
Abbott, one reason why he simply must go, human rights abuse or no abuse.
I gather that the site of the proposed Casino is in Slave Island, in the heart of
Colombo. It is of interest that the hundreds of people (Sinhalese, Tamils and
Muslims) who have lived in this area for years, were thrown out by the Rajapaksa
regime the area literally demolished, with negligible compensation. A casino
was far more important to the Rajapaksa junta.
What can (and must) be done?
Irrespective of what goes on (or does not go on) in CHOGM, there is an absolute
need for international action. The purpose of this publication is to draw attention
to the fact that it what Colonial Britain did to set the stage for the chaos that
followed. If that is correct (which it is) then it is mandatory that Britain (and the
Commonwealth) play a lead role in sorting out the problem.
The immediate action
The most urgent actions are:
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1. To get international Human Rights Organisations (AI, HRW and ICG) into
the Tamil areas NOW. Can it be done? Yes. Britain has enough
international clout and economic clout with the Sri Lankan government to
do so. The recent comments by the current British Prime Minister makes
this clear.
2. To get the UN to admit a UN-Force (as was done with East Timor) to
replace the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
3. To apply the UN R2P (Responsibilty to Protect) since the Tamil civilians in
the North and East are certainly in need of protection. It must be stressed
that R2P obliges the international community to intervene through
coercive measures such as economic sanctions, with Military intervention
as the last resort.
4. Set up an international independent inquiry into war crimes, which the
British Prime Minister said the world should.
5. To mobilise international action to help the Tamil people. This should be
channelled through the UN, not the Sri Lankan government.
The longer term
1. Conduct a Referendum in the North and East under UN Security, as was
done in East Timor, to see what the people in the area want. Selfdetermination is a right, not a favour. The Tamil nation has that right.
2. To implement the result of the Referendum. If the people in the area want
to remain under the Government in Colombo, so be it. If they want a
Separate Tamil State, then to see that this is delivered. This is precisely
what happened in East Timor.
3. To charge the criminals responsible be they the Sri Lankan Armed Forces,
or those in charge, be they military or civilian (the Yamashita Principle),
the Tamil Tigers, including those currently working with the Sri Lankan
government, and get them to the UN Human Rights Committee, the
International Court of Justice (The World Court) or the International
Criminal Court. All of these are possible.
4. To get justice for the innocent civilians who have lost everything
including compensation and restoration of their lands, homes and
businesses.
The British owe a lot to the Tamil people, not to mention my people, the
Sinhalese, all of whom are under a Totalitarian regime, and, in the case of the
Tamil people in the North and East, a tyrannical Sinhalese Armed Force and
Police, as well. It is time that the British delivered. It is the least that they can do.
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LTTE International network in the

USA and Canada
The following article from the Brian Senewiratne Pages blog names
the key members of the LTTE International medical and legal hierarchy
in the USA and Canada. They are effusively thanked for inviting Brian
Senewiratne to be the guest of honour at the Tamil Sangam fundraising
event for the LTTE (via the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization or TRO
front) in October 2006.
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006

My Thanks to those in Canada and USA
After all the generous comments about me and awards, it is time to thank all
those who helped me during my visit to the US and Canada in October 2006. It
was the most gratifying mission I have been on, in the past three decades that I
have been campaigning for the cause of the Tamil people.
Ilankai Tamil Sangam
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It all started when the Sangam invited me to address the 29th Annual General
Meeting on October 14, 2006.
I am not the first Sinhalese to be so honoured. The late Adrian Wijemanne was
the Chief Guest in 1997. His keynote address, Amity, not Unity , is even more
relevant today than it was a decade ago. It sets out the historical basis on which
we can confidently predict the final outcome of the liberation struggle of the
Tamil people the establishment of a separate State, Eelam.
My stance has been as a humanitarian and someone who opposes injustice (as
was Adrians) indeed a series of injustices - done to the Tamil people by a
succession of Sinhalese Governments over half a century.
I accepted the invitation for two reasons, despite compelling reasons why I
should be in Brisbane. Firstly, it was an honour for me, a Sinhalese, to be invited
to address a major event on the US Tamil calendar. Secondly, with the restart of
hostilities despite a so-called Ceasefire, the expatriate Tamil community was
losing hope and was confused, if not despondent, and it was imperative to clarify
the situation and call for action, not despondency.
In view of some damaging comments made by foreign politicians and others
from outside Sri Lanka, and the serious consequences these have had in that
country, there was a need to apprise these people, of what was going on in that
country which is very different from Sri Lankan Government propaganda.
I suggested to Sangam that in addition to speaking at the AGM, I should address
public meetings in other parts of the US and Canada and see whoever should be
seen to apprise them of what was going on in Sri Lanka. The timing was
unfortunate in that it was three weeks before the US mid-term elections and
politicians were more concerned about getting themselves elected than in the
slaughter of Tamils in some distant land which had no oil.
I greatly appreciate the Executive of Sangam for making this visit possible.
The AGM
The AGM was divided into three parts the morning which was medical (doctors
got Brownie points for attending), the afternoon was political (the story that Sri
Lankans got de-merit points from the GOSL for attending this is untrue), and the
evening, a dinner and social. I had the fortune (? misfortune) of having to
address all three.
The entire meeting (medical, political and social) seems to have been organized
by Tammy Sriharan, the non-Sri Lankan wife of the President of Tamil Sangam, Sri
Haran. Never have I seen someone so obsessed with getting it right. To say that
anyone is indispensable could be challenged. What cannot be challenged is that
this meeting would not have been the success it was, without the 110% effort
put in by Tammy. At a personal level, I have nothing but gratitude for the scores
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arranging all the crazy things I wanted to do, and what others wanted me to do,
with multiple changes at minimal notice.
The morning session
This was organized and chaired by Dr Karunyan Arulanantham, a long-time
campaigner for the Tamil cause, with special interests in refugees and the
delivery of medical services to people who do not exist in the eyes of the
Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL).
There were some outstanding papers, the best by Dr Yasodha Natkunam, the
daughter of one of the finest cardio-thoracic surgeons that Sri Lanka has
produced but could not retain, like so many others. Yaso is famous in her own
right and Natkunam is in danger of being referred to as Yasos father.
Yaso is a Consultant Pathologist in the US who has spent time in the North of Sri
Lanka setting up pathology services. Having gone down this road in 1968 trying
to set up a clinical research laboratory in Kandy, starting from ground-zero, and
with maximum obstruction from above, I could appreciate the problems she
faced and the way she handled them. Her address must be made available on a
DVD.
While experts in their field (Gastroenterologists, Endocrinologists, Psychiatrists,
Pathologists, and others) spoke on subjects in their specialty, I, a Physician,
spoke on Post-Traumatic Depression, which was not in my area of expertise and
in which I have no special interest or training. I simply set out my experience
over 30 years in Australia, dealing with supposedly medical problems, but
which turned out to be related to, or precipitated by, events in Sri Lanka.
I was introduced by Professor Sriharan, one of the finest brains that Sri Lanka has
ever produced (and lost, like so many others). The loss of Sriharan was serious.
He is a Colombo graduate, adopted by Kandy (when I was there). I had no part to
play in his training although he made out that I had. He ended up as the first
Professor of Medicine in Jaffna, and then lost to the UK. When I heard of his tragic
loss, I said that Sri Lanka did not deserve someone like him.
I am obviously not going to evaluate my talk. All I will say is that a single
generous comment by Dr N. Balasubramanium, a Pathologist from New York,
gave me enough encouragement to have this talk put on a DVD and made
available. Unfortunately the recording was not great in that while it is possible to
see (and hear) me, the more important slides cannot be seen. This will have to
be rectified but might take a few of weeks.
The afternoon session
A book release A Path to Purposeful Living The validity and relevance of
Thirukkural to modern times by the author, V.P.Palam, was followed by the
political talks.
1. Humanitarian Law and Self-determination by Karen Parker JD.
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Karen is a Los Angeles-based human rights lawyer specializing in armed conflict

(humanitarian) law and human rights. She has represented non-governmental
organizations at the United Nations, and has addressed the armed conflict in Sri
Lanka since 1983. She has presented more than 30 written and oral statements
to the UN on the application of humanitarian law to the armed conflict in Sri
Lanka and on the situation of the Tamils. She has submitted testimony on the
conflict to US Congress, and at the Parliaments in France, Australia, United
Kingdom, and other countries. Much of what she said has been published, on the
net and elsewhere.
2. Genocide of the Tamils, A Failed State and possible Solutions by me
I set out the evidence for genocide of the Tamil people by the GOSL and
introduced the concept of economic genocide, educational genocide and
cultural genocide, being the deliberate destruction of the economy, education
and culture of a specific ethnic group. I will put this on the net.
Sri Lanka satisfies the criteria for a Failed State. To claim that it is not is
deception. This too will be on the net, although it is already well documented.
As for solutions, I presented the reasons why a separate Tamil State (and a
separate Sinhala State) was the only possible solution today. I will put an
expanded version on the net.
3. Politics of Relief: Humanitarian work in NorthEastern Sri Lanka by
Nimmi Gowrinathan
Nimmi is a PhD student in UCLA. She has spent some time in Sri Lanka and
presented the ground realities of relief very different from the false propaganda
of the GOSL. This was an excellent paper which needs wide dissemination to
show the international community what the Tamil people in the North and East
are going through.
The formal session ended with Karen Parker conducting a Workshop: The War
Critical issues there and here.
The evening social
This was very well patronized with more than 300 people (or so it appeared to
me), turning up. The Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel, New Jersey, was
packed.
Sadena Thevarajah and Prem Jayanthan from the Tamil Youth Organisation spoke
on Getting Youth Involved. This is an important problem since it is the youth who
will have to take the baton from us.
Nimmi Gowrinathan repeated her experience in humanitarian work since the
audience was larger.
I spoke on Why I stand where I do. It was a social gathering and I was asked to
keep the diners amused. Unfortunately, I am not a comedian, nor did I think the
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situation back home warranted amusement. I thought that informing people was
more important than amusing them. However, I did go over the nonsense in the
Mahavamsa which produced the necessary amusement. I pointed out that I was
a member of the Lion race, a direct descendent from a Lion mating with an
oversexed Princess. It had to be true, it is in the Mahavamsa.
I was simply repeating what that outstanding Tamil journalist, S.Sivanayagam,
has written in The Pen and the Gun, to which he invited me to write a Foreword.
When I told him that it will be the kiss of death for the book, his defiant response
was, If people will not buy the book because you wrote the Foreword, damn
them. That was Siva.
The Lion story belatedly reminds me of an event in 1956. Bandaranaike was
presenting his infamousSinhala Only Act. Protesting Tamil MPs were being
mauled outside Parliament by Sinhalese hoodlums. The MPs entered Parliament,
bleeding and bandaged, to roars of laughter and jeers, Wounds of War, from
the Sinhalese MPs. Dr E.M.V.Naganathan, not a man to be intimidated, muttered
something like, When the Tamil Tiger rises, the Sinhala Lion will go with its tail
between its legs. I wish the prophetic gentleman was there to see it come to
pass.
I will put the more important parts of my address on the net.
I ended my address raising an imaginary glass in two toasts. The first was to two
remarkable women, neither of them Sri Lankans, whom I had met for the first
time 48 hours earlier Avis Sri Jayantha who runs the Sangam website, and
Tammy Sriharan, whom I have already referred to.
I was able to see staff from the US Senate, House of Representatives, the United
Nations section on the Prevention of Genocide, the renowned newspaper,
Washington Post, and Human Rights Watch (which, incidentally, has a higher
standing in the USA than Amnesty International).
During my talk I think Tammy was still running around, I doubt if she heard my
toast to her. She is of Irish background, with a colour in keeping with her
genetics. There she was in a yellow saree, looking as Tamil as they come. Had
someone put some dark stripes on that saree, she could have been a Tiger, as I
have been called many times indeed a Tamil Tiger Terrorist. Incidentally, if I am
one, so are the Bandaranaikes since my father comes from that clan.
Tammy makes the best Thosai I have ever eaten, a sad reflection on my Tamil
wife. The second toast was to Eelam which will come despite the best efforts of
the Sinhala leadership, present, past and future, to prevent it. They, and the
Sinhala extremists, can delay but not, in any way,prevent it. History, as set out
by Adrian Wijemanne a decade ago at a similar meeting, will not have it
otherwise.
A passing word about Avis husband, the brilliant Dr Sri Sri Jayantha. now with
IBM. When Sri Lanka loses people like him (and many others like him), it is game,
set and match. If they did not have to leave Sri Lanka, that country would have
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been a leader in Asia an Asian Tiger, if you pardon the pun. Hopefully they will
return, albeit on an intermittent basis, to Tamil Eelam, when it moves fromde
facto to de jure.
Finally, a Vote of Thanks by the President of llankai Tamil Sangam, the nononsense Sri Haran, who impressed me greatly.
This was followed by music and dance, Classical Fusion, they called it, presented
by Selvi Chandranathan and her students. It was pretty loud, perhaps my ears
are too old to cope with a lot of vibration. I sloped off to bed at 2 am, not quite
sure whether it was 2am (USA), 5pm (Brisbane), or neither.
At breakfast, in a touching gesture, Karen and I were presented with honourplaques. I did not see what Karens read. Mine was:An International crusader for Human Rights and Dignity all over the World and
Promoter of Justice for All
I thought it was an exaggeration but I appreciated the stress on Justice. That is
precisely what I want justice for the people of Sri Lanka, and that is what is
being denied to them by a succession of Sri Lankan Governments.
My plaque was presented by a former medical registrar of mine. He was
disarmingly honest when he said, I did not like Dr Senewiratne when I worked
for him. Nothing I could do was right. It is probably a sentiment shared by many
others who do not have the honesty to say so.
Thanks to Sri Haran, I was able to see Wakeley Paul in his home. He was too
unwell to come for the meeting. I suspect Wakeley had more than a little to do
with the invitation to me to address the AGM. He is a fine soul, totally committed
to the Tamil cause. I was most upset to see him so unwell, but every time I
veered towards his medical problems, he veered away! I was delighted to hear
later that he was miraculously on the mend. Id like to believe that it was the
therapeutic effect of my visit, but I think the medicines is on are more likely to be
responsible. He had better be around to usher in Tamil Eelam, for which he has
been campaigning for so many years and with such dedication.
Wakeley, named after the famous British surgeon, Sir Cecil Wakeley, is the son of
one of the most famous and finest Professors of Surgery that Sri Lanka has ever
had, Professor Milroy Paul (Polo to his students). Milroy Paul must surely be
turning in his grave when he sees what has become of his beloved Department
of Surgery which was, for many years, one of the best in the world and one that
has trained so many top Sri Lankan surgeons. I came all the way from
Cambridge, just to go on one of his teaching rounds.
Washington
From New York, it was a drive to Washington my chauffeur, Dr Saba
Kulatungam, Cardiologist, and his wife, Dr Mano (Navaratnam), a former student
of mine. We discussed everything from Buddhism to Eelam. In Washington,
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home was with Arichandran, ex-World Bank, and a life-long friend. It was
Arichandrans father, Dr K.Kanagaratnam, who first invited my family to Jaffna in
the 1940s. It was on this trip that I, a 14 year old boy, told his parents, Until this
area is separated from the South, this area will never develop. It was an early
call for Eelam and recognition that development, or its lack, was the crucial
issue. Until that is addressed, there will be no Peace in Sri Lanka.
When Sinhala patriots decided to burn Arichandrans home and very nearly his
entire family in July 1983, they were depriving Sri Lanka of a competent
accountant and a gifted tennis player at the top of the pile. That is Sinhala
patriotism.
Arichandran showed me a book, Ramanathan of Ceylon the life of Sir
Ponnambalam Ramanathan. With generosity typical of his family, he said,
Nothing would please me more than to present this book to you, but it was
given to me by my father. This extraordinary book, published in some backyard
in Jaffna, needs to be reprinted. It has invaluable references to Tamils standing
up for the Sinhala leaders, falsely accused and imprisoned by the British in the
1915 anti-Muslim riots. Anagarika Dharmapala, (1864-1933), the Buddhist
revivalist, praised Ramanathan, Solicitor-General, for getting them freed. He
says:
The day that you (Ramanathan) are taken away from Ceylon, from that day
there will be none to defend the poor, neglected Singhalese. They are a doomed
people with none to guide and protect them. Unhappy Singhalese!
Dharmapala, who, before his Buddhist-slanted name-change, was a Don Carolis,
son of the well-known furniture maker. I hope he will return to Sri Lanka from
wherever he is, and see the damage done by yellow-robed hoodlums and
political opportunists, as a result of his activities.
Toronto
From Washington, I got to Toronto to address more meetings, a radio and TV
interview, ducking out to Boston while I was there. The biggest was a dinner
organised by the Tamil Canadian Congress, chaired by Fr. Dr Joseph
Chandrakanthan, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Bioethics,
University of Toronto. I have known him for two decades, from the time he was
studying theology in Ottawa. He is an articulate and forceful speaker who would
have disappeared had he been in Jaffna, as his brother priests have done.
My address to the huge audience has been recorded and will be available on
DVD. It sure was comprehensive, but at the cost of intolerable hunger inflicted by
me on those who had paid dearly for food that did not seem to appear (because
of the length of my address).
There was audience participation in a big way, one of my former students
appreciating the stance I took on ragging, which in Sri Lanka is a form of sadism
which merits criminal prosecution (one student broke her spine and later died).
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At long last, access to food was possible. Then came yet another Award. It read:
For Your Tireless Contribution in Upholding Justice and Human Rights.
Again, I appreciated the reference to Justice.
I did remind them that an award was unnecessary since most of the problems in
Sri Lanka came from my relatives, the Bandaranaikes. I can think of no other
family in any other country that has been responsible for wrecking a country and
turning it from one with a bright future to one with no future.
Much as I appreciated the Award, I had to admit that I valued another Award
more. This was a T-shirt I was given many years ago which reads, I support
Tamil Eelam. On it is a map of Sri Lanka with almost half the island shaded to
indicate Eelam! Why not? There will be quantitatively less of a Failed Sinhala
State.
I was delighted that the Award was presented by Dr Sri Bavan Sri Skandarajah,
whose guest I was in Toronto. Bavan and his highly committed and talented wife,
Usha, (who wrote that undeserved Ode to me, and the much more appropriate
Maveerar poem), could not have been more helpful. They took me to see a
wonderful lady, the wife of my friend Joseph Pararajasingham. She was still
devastated after the outrageous murder of that fine man on Christmas Day 2005.
Joseph and Sugunam have stayed in my home in Brisbane (where I taught him to
make godamba roti).
Bavan and Usha did everything for me, including repairing my shoes which, like
Sri Lanka, had fallen apart, but which, unlike the latter, was readily fixed. They
put their lives on hold for the duration of my visit. I addressed two meetings of
University students in the University of Toronto (campus in Toronto and
Scarborough). This is an important area to develop getting the students
involved. The audience participation indicated the level of interest of these
young people, many of whom had never been to Sri Lanka and whose only
connection was their name. It is crucial to take this forward and build a
Federation of Tamil Students across the world and link them up with those in
Jaffna (who are facing some terrible problems at the moment).
I barely made it to a Radio interview on CTR (Canadian Tamil Radio) conducted
by Wijey Kulathungam. It went on for double the allocated time because of
questions and comments from the listeners.
I was delighted to be able to reach out to ordinary Tamils through this Radio
program, an activity which I think is crucial and which I hope will be the primary
focus, when I next go to Toronto (or elsewhere).
The radio interview was preceded by an excellent interview on television (TVi
Tamil Vision Int.) superbly conducted by the articulate Vijay Thamil Priyan. It was
a wide ranging interview which is available on DVD and should be re-broadcast in
other countries. I will be glad to send anyone a copy.
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I was delighted to meet two totally dedicated young men, Danton and the
outstanding Esan Satkunarajah whose enthusiasm and commitment know no
bounds. No one among the younger Tamils has impressed me more than these
young men. It was great encouragement to me to meet them. I was deeply
moved by an account on Sangam of my time in Toronto.
Boston
Boston is home to a longstanding friend of mine, Sri Srithilliampalam whose
contribution to the Tamil cause in the US has been substantial. Sri is a
remarkable fellow who has contacts (to this very day) in the US State
Department and in Boston. It was he who was responsible for the famous
Massachusetts Resolution passed in 1979 which rocked the J.R.Jayawardene
Government. It was an outright condemnation of the Sri Lanka Government and
a declaration of Eelam Day 22ndMay. It was passed by the Massachusetts
State Legislature an unprecedented act by any State in the US. Sri went on to
celebrate this and raised the Eelam Flag in Boston in 1981. To this very day, his
car (as old as himself) carries a number plate EELAM 1.
I addressed a meeting of Tamils in Boston on 22 November 2006. It was
regrettable that significant numbers did not show up because of senseless infighting among Tamils. This self-destructive activity must stop. We are fighting
one of the most brutal and ruthless regimes Sri Lanka has ever had. At a time
such as this (for that matter, at any time), it is outrageous that expatriate Tamils
should fight each other over issues which are, at the most, trivial.
From Boston, back to Toronto and then to the West Coast.
San Francisco
A meeting of expatriate Tamils was organized in San Jose by Tom Fernando (a
Tamil, despite his name) married to my adopted Tamil daughter and student, Dr
Christine Edwards from Kayts. I have never been to San Francisco without
staying with the Fernandos in Sacramento (and never will). However, chaos on
the flights to San Francisco left me no option but a hotel much to the distress of
Christine and Tom.
The meeting in the San Francisco Bay area was organised by the Tamils of
Northern California, whose President is SivaRaja Swaminathan. The work of
getting the meeting together fell on Vimal Rajagopal, Amaran Wijay and, of
course, Tom Fernanado. Here are quiet, dedicated people who work in the
background doing the hard yards, while we get the applause.
Donald Gnanakone came all the way from Los Angeles for the meeting. He has
written more than anyone I know of, on the Tamil struggle. My computer had to
be fitted with a larger hard disc to cope with his emails. How he does it, beats
me. One can think what one wants about his writings, but what cannot be in
doubt is his commitment to the Tamil cause. It is absolute.
That night, I left for my second home - Lancaster in Southern California.
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Lancaster
Here live expatriate Tamils who put their money where their mouth is. Dr
Karunyan and Dr.Inpam Arulanantham, Dr and Mrs Shan Sunder, my Tamil
brother Dr Moorthy, Kandiah Perinpanathan, and the silent, totally committed,
Harichandra (Hari), and others.
Hari is the living example of a truism, If you want something done, pick the
busiest person and ask him to do it. For all things in Lancaster, I pick Hari and it
is done. This included driving all the way from Lancaster to pick me up from Los
Angeles airport at midnight and driving back, then feeding me, and then
discussing what practical things we can do in the present crisis, and what can be
done to move the issue to the next level. The Lancaster Tamils have an
invigorating effect on me which is impossible to describe.
The public meeting in Lancaster (actually Burbank), was chaired by Karunyan.
The comments I made about Professor Sriharan, apply to Karunyan in full
measure. Sri Lanka was too engulfed in anti-Tamil racism to enable Karunyan (an
endocrinologist), and Inpam (a pathologist), to make their contribution to Sri
Lanka.
I dealt with the problem of a lack of information people, in particular non-Sri
Lankans, simply not knowing what is going on in that country. The suggestion I
made was to produce a Basic Information 45 minute video, setting out,
especially for non-Sri Lankans, what the conflict is all about. This is imperative if
the GOSL disinformation campaign is to be countered. It has to assume zero
knowledge of Sri Lanka. Starting from some basic information on the geography,
and regional climatic differences, it has to go on to administrative problems, the
centralization of power in Colombo by the colonial British, the developmental
neglect of the Tamil areas, the handing over of the country to a Government that
will always be Sinhalese-dominated, the discrimination of the Tamil minority,
non-violent protests by the Tamils, futile Pacts abrogated unilaterally by the
GOSL, the failure of the democratic process to deliver justice to the Tamils, the
inevitable resort to an armed struggle to free the Tamil people from Sinhaladomination and discrimination, and the response of the GOSL, a decimation of
the Tamil civilian population and the area they live in, and now, to a genocide of
the Tamil people and a humanitarian crisis. I said that I will be glad to make this
Information video.
The highlight of the meeting, from my perspective, was a question by 7 year old
Neelan Nanda Ganshan, If all the people are Sri Lankans, why are they
fighting? If I could, Id abduct that boy and adopt him. Here is a leader-in-themaking and a thinker.
Addressing Neelans question as best as I could, I said that my cousin, Chandrika
Kumaratunga, when she was President, in an interview in South African radio,
said that the Tamils were asking for a part of Sri Lanka and, hold your breath,
They are not even the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka. Alas for her abysmal
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lack of knowledge or is it history being re-written in line with Sinhala ethnic

chauvinism the cause of the fight.
It was then time to head off to Los Angeles for the flight back, but not before a
final hug at the airport. Professor Reggie Edgerton and his wife Monica were
there for a momentary hug. Reggie was one of the outstanding Americans from
the famous UCLA to come to Kandy and work with me on the health of the
Plantation Tamils. He was disturbed to hear that the contents of that beautiful
research laboratory, the only clinical research laboratory in Sri Lanka, built by me
on a personal grant from the Nuffield Foundation, was smashed by hoodlums for
no obvious reason. A senseless act, but what in Sri Lanka is not?
For those who were in Peradeniya, 1966-1976, there is booklet by me What I
have taught and learnt in Sri Lanka. The musing of a senile teacher. This is what I
presented to former students at a reunion in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. I
had lost the floppy disc, but have now found it. I guess Sangam is not the place
to publish this, but I will be glad to send it to anyone by email. It is worth a read.
It will take you back to Kandy. I arrived in Brisbane just in time to start my
Medical Clinic 15 minutes late.
Was the effort worthwhile? I do not know, time will tell. The purpose of this article
is not to evaluate success or failure but to thank the many people, some whose
names I cannot even remember, for enabling me to do what I set out to do
wake up the sleeping Tamils, and inform those who do not know, or do not
want to know, about the suffering of the Tamil people, now a humanitarian crisis,
and to convince everybody of the absolute need for Tamil Eelam.
The three messages I wanted to leave were:1. Dont be intimidated, dont be afraid. To make expatriate Tamils fearful, is the
name of the game, in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. It is a carefully crafted
strategy between the GOSL and these governments. If you cave in and become
frightened, they win. No one is asking you to do anything illegal. If helping our
people in the North and East, abandoned by their Government, indeed brutalized
by their Government, is illegal, challenge it we should, challenge it we must. No
Government which claims to be democratic and civilized can penalize people for
helping civilians facing decimation at the hands of a brutal and barbaric
Government.
Unjust laws should be challenged, even broken. The British Raj declared that
Indians should not make salt. Mahatma Gandhi challenged it, went on his famous
salt-march, and made salt. India got its Independence and prospered, and the
British Empire collapsed.
2. No humanitarian organization e.g. the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO)
has been banned in any country. The humanitarian needs, including the massive
problem of refugees in the North and East is being addressed by the TRO a
recognized and registered NGO and the recipient of an award by ex-President
Kumaratunga. The freezing of the TRO bank account in Sri Lanka is illegal and is
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being challenged in the Supreme Court. With the abysmal level to which the
justice system in Sri Lanka has sunk, it may be necessary to take this to an
International Court since it affects the lives of thousands. The blocking of funds
of the TRO will not be upheld in any Court outside Sri Lanka. It might not even be
in Sri Lanka.
3. This is a struggle we cannot lose. In fact, Eelam is already established and
functioning well, as documented by Professor Kristian Stokke, University of Oslo,
who worked in the de facto State of Tamil Eelam. His extensive paper is on the
net (eelamnation.org), and has been published in an international journal. A de
facto State will move to a de jure State as surely as day follows night. We have
the overwhelming force of history behind us to point the way to the future. The
future will be a separate Tamil State (and a separate Sinhala State). Of that, let
there be no doubt. Thanks to the Mahavamsa!
Brian Senewiratne
Briabane, Australia
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This evidence is also tendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the
Hague as well as to Interpol and the FBI ahead of Brian Senewiratnes imminent
trip to the USA to meet with the TGTE boss Rudrakumaran to plan the next stage
of the separatist, terrorist war. Rudrakumaran was the lawyer for the LTTE and is
involved in getting refugee status for Tamils, as Brian Senewiratne was in
Australia.
Brian Senewiratne made a lot of money by acting as a medical consultant to an
organization that garlanded young people with cyanide. He justified suicide
bombing as well as child soldiers, and kept talking up the war to an international
audience that he relied on to be ignorant about the real situation in Sri Lanka.
This was a calculated ploy to try and make money by selling his propaganda
books, articles and, finally, DVDs.
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Because of my family connections, I was physically there to witness the transfer

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The electoral consequences are obvious. If this continues (which it will if no

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destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. In Sri

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Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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