(3 killed) (3 killed) December 18, 1999: A pair of suicide bombings in Colombo, wounding Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Sri Lanka denies journalists access to the war zone, many disappeared people remain missing, stories of secret camps are rife, torture is commonplace”Ĭan there be anything more vile than this? Abusing the raped Dead. July 29, 1999: Assassination of a Sri Lankan member of parliament, Neelan Thiruchelvam, an ethnic Tamil involved in a government-sponsored peace initiative.
Diego García-Sayán, to secure a country visit to Sri Lanka Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OctoIn light of the police-facilitated mob. There have been officers of the Sri Lankan Army who have stepped forward to corroborate some of the darkest claims. TGTE Petition Galvanizing Support from Tamil Attorneys Worldwide Calling on the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Mr. Where their images of suffering and death end, the SLA soldier’s videos and photos begin. Many Tamils recorded the attacks they suffered, and a great deal of media was preserved somehow, even though so many of the people who took the pictures and video died. They rape and abuse women, murder them, and then abuse their corpses, for the camera. Then, the United Nations observers were asked to leave by Sri Lanka’s government the UN ordered them to clear out, and this left the Tamils at the hands of the Sinhalese Buddhist regime of Sri Lanka President Majinda Rajapaksa, to die without witness… but not completely.Īs these terrible photos testify, the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers like to photograph their handiwork.
“Before making strident moves to ethnically cleanse the civilian population, Sri Lanka wiped out and silenced all journalists who were sympathetic to the Hindu and Christian Tamils. Her story is one of a number given to the BBC, horrific accounts of torture carried out long after hostilities ended.ĭuring the civil war, Vasantha had helped Tamil Tiger rebels pass messages and set up safe houses in the capital, but she says she never took part in the fighting or held a gun. Vasantha says she realised the authorities had finally caught up with her, four years after the war and just as she was about to leave for Britain on a student visa. Watch Our World: Sri Lanka’s Unfinished War on BBC World News on Saturday 9 November at 11:30 GMT and on Sunday 10 November at 17:30 GMT and 22:30 GMT or watch it later on the BBC iPlayer.
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