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Since then, the country has been plunged into bloodshed.Īccuser Bruce Fein is concerned about the systemic violence against the Tamils under Rajapaksa Rajapaksa withdrew from the ceasefire in January 2008. In 2002, Rajapaksa’s predecessor, Ranil Wickremasinghe, entered into a ceasefire agreement with the LTTE. Finally, in the 1970s, Tamil youths took to an armed struggle. Moderate Tamil politicians failed to impact the government to change its policies. Later, Sinhala was made the country’s only official language, placing Tamils at a disadvantage, particularly for government jobs. Soon after achieving independence from British colonialism in 1948, the Lankan government passed the Citizenship Act by which about a million Tamils lost their citizenship and voting rights. Sri Lanka’s Tamils have suffered repression at the hands of the Sinhalese since the 1940s. Ever since his brother became President, Gotabaya has been part of his core group and is urging Rajapaksa to pursue a military solution to the 25- year-old ethnic conflict. He returned to Sri Lanka in 2005 to assist Rajapaksa during his presidential campaign. He then moved to the US and worked as a computer systems administrator at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. GOTABAYA RETIRED from the Sri Lankan army in 1992, having served in it for 20 years. “My work has nothing to do with the LTTE,” Fein says.Ĭomparing the present conditions of Tamils in Sri Lanka to the sufferings of the Jews under the Nazis and of the blacks during the apartheid era in South Africa, Fein says: “The national identity cards given to the Tamils are almost like the Star of David badges the Jews had to wear during the Nazi era.” He alleges that the cards are meant to identify Tamils easily so the government knows “whom to kill”. These, he clarifies, do not include LTTE casualties. “Since Gotabaya and Fonseka assumed office (in 2005), there have been virtually one to three extra-judicial killings daily in Sri Lanka,” states Fein. Speaking to TEHELKA, Fein says he has prepared a 1,000-page model indictment against Gotabaya and Fonseka for submission to the US Department of Justice. The model document, if accepted in the US would make Gotabaya the first US citizen to be tried for genocideįein, associated with a US-based group, Tamils Against Genocide, was on a private visit to Chennai last week. ‘The government has complete authority over the perpetrators of genocide: army, police, thugs, army deserters’

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‘People are abducted in mysterious white vans, with no license plates.

‘The national identity cards help identify Tamils easily, so the government knows whom to kill’

Gotabaya, brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is a US citizen and Fonseka is a US Green Card holder. Former US Deputy Associate Attorney General Bruce Fein has compiled evidence he believes is sufficient to prosecute Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and army chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka under the United States Genocide Accountability Act. Even as the United Nations voiced concern over the increasing number of civilian Tamil casualties in the war between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan army, pressure is building on the nation’s hardline Sinhala leadership over its allegedly genocidal acts against the Tamil minority. THE SRI LANKAN government is claiming an all-out victory in its recent campaign against the insurgent Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The blockade on transporting essential commodities to Tamil areas is one example, Fein says, for the starvation it has caused to the north Lankan civilian population.Ī former US diplomat makes serious charges of genocide against Lankan officials, which could go all the way to US courts “The government has been creating conditions intended to promote their physical destruction,” claims Fein, arguing that many Rajapaksa policies constitute genocidal acts under US law. The genocidal intent of the Rajapaksa regime can be established through its various discriminatory policies against the Tamils. The abducted are never heard of again and are counted among the thousands of ‘disappeared’ persons. People are abducted in “mysterious white vans” that have no license plates, Fein says. “The national identity cards given to the Tamils are almost like the Star of David badges the Jews had to wear during the Nazi era.” He alleges that the cards are meant to identify Tamils easily so the government knows “whom to kill”.Ĭonditions have allegedly worsened over the last three years.

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13th Year on the Web Association of Tamils of Sri Lanka in the USAīy PC Vinoj Kumar, Tehelka, January 30, 2009

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