இலங்கைத் தமிழரின் நிலை குறித்து விழிப்புணர்வு ஏற்படுத்த வாஷிங்டனில் கவனஈர்ப்பு பேரணி
Purpose of Rally: Stop the Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka
Venue: Opposite to White House, Washington DC
When: Friday, Feb 20, 2009
11 to 4 PM
Where: The Ellipse in front of the White House
Contact: savethamils@gmail.com
416.644.7259
905.266.1103
514.787.9486
613.800.0555
Background
Violence in Sri Lanka has been on the rise since December 2005 and, according to the United Nations Human Rights Council, three million citizens have been affected, 500,000 forced out of their homes and over 4,000 killed in the past 12 months. The toll has added to the 100,000 deaths, mostly Tamil civilians, in more than two decades of sectarian strife since the early 1980s. Massive military operations in the Tamil homeland by the Sri Lanka government forces have displaced half-a-million war and tsunami devastated Tamil civilians. Their lands were appropriated to form High Security Zones. The Tamils living in the capitol Colombo were arrested and deported to the Tamil Northeast. Sri Lanka is thus engaged in systematic Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils. In the past year, more journalists and aid workers were killed with government complicity in Sri Lanka than anywhere else in the world. US military aid is on the increase to a government tainted by an abominable record of human rights violations.
Tamil Americans will urge the United States government and the international community to help end the occupation of Tamil homeland, and restore peace, justice and democracy
Links
- Genocide Intervention Network
- 8 Stages of Genocide
- International Crisis Group: R2P
- Black July
- US Prosecutes/Expels Human Rights Violators
- Blind spot in genocide theory
- Genocide or politicide
- Loud echoes of a bloody past – a comparison with Rwanda
- Why Tamils say genocide
- Genocide, the world and us: lessons from Janffa
- Insecurity and the lessons of history – a comparison with Nazi Germany
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