India Steps Up for Battered Sri Lankan Tamils, Finally

Lawyers of Supreme Court and Members of the Delhi Tamil Advocates Association hold Mass Protest March in New Delhi condemning the inaction of International Community in bringing war criminals of the Sri Lankan Regime to Justice.

Mr Ram Shankar of Delhi Tamil Advocates association

(SACRAMENTO / DELHI) - Advocates for Sri Lankan Tamils are moved by a mass protest against the war crimes of Sri Lanka today in Delhi. Visvanathan Sivam, whose name is familiar to those engaged in this struggle, called the news from Lawyers of Supreme Court and Members of the Delhi Tamil Advocates Association "most welcome". Sivam is not alone.

"It is about time the Tamils in Tamil Nadu make an effort to hold similar demonstrations in other state capitals. The news outlets and the politicians have kept the Indians ignorant of what is happening in Sri Lanka is a genocide and nothing short of it. Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh was forced to withdraw from CHOGM, but Salman Khurshid has taken his place to white wash the genocide."

Up to 160,000 human beings were murdered in Sri Lanka during the final months of the long-running civil war between Tamil separatists and the Sri Lankan government. Experts and advocates of the embattled Tamil people say it was a Genocide.

The rebel Tamil Tigers or LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) fought a war for independence and made their share of mistakes along the way, impressing children into military service, creating the suicide vest, etc. But there are rules of war that are very specific and Sri Lanka violated almost all of them - thousands of times.

Two wrongs do not make a right and if Sri Lanka is allowed to irresponsibly abscond from international justice, then the message sent to the world is simple, that Genocide is an option for governments.

The Delhi Tamil Advocates Association said of the mass rally,

"The time has come to shed our slavery of ignorance. Ignorance, which has kept us from breathing freedom, freedom from war, freedom from chauvinism, freedom from caste and religion and freedom from dogmas which teach us that a fellow human being can be killed, raped, maimed and ill treated because he/she belongs to a different group, which speaks a different language and follow a different belief system."

What started in 1931 as a colonial expediency, the sharing of power by the British with the Sinhalese run cabinet has ended in 2009, with the enslavement of Eelam Tamils to the Sinhalese ruling majority. Under the guise of ending the civil war and fighting against terrorism, the Sinhalese majority regime led by Mahinda Rajapaksa has perpetrated one of the worst war crimes in recent history.

The government deceived Tamil civilians by directing them into so-called "No-Fire Zones" where they were decimated by artillery with extreme prejudice. This brutality was seemingly dwarfed by the actions of the Sri Lankan army after they entered the zones their guns had been pounding. Children were murdered, girls and women were raped, Tamil Tigers who surrendered with white flags were shot to death against the strictest rules of war, and the erosion of the Tamil hold on this land has never ceased.

The Delhi Tamil Advocates Association also stated:

Isai Priya and Balachandran

Indisputable evidences of war crimes is at hand, this includes the execution of child Balachandran, the rape and killing of actress and news reader Isai Priya and the execution of surrendered prisoners of war, perpetrated by the Sinhalese army, which operated under the command of President Rajapaksa and his brother, Defense secretary Gothabaya. The indifference of International Community in bringing these war criminals to Justice is shocking.

The group demands:

We, the Tamils of Delhi condemn the inaction of the Indian Government, the UN and the International Community and we urge them to act in fulfillment of the following demands:

1. International War Crimes Tribunal has to be setup to investigate war crimes perpetrated during Sri Lankan civil war.

2. A resolution should be passed in the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly to urge the International Community and the Indian Government to set up the International War Crimes Tribunal for Sri Lanka.

3. The International Community and the Indian Government have to take responsibility to stop rape of Tamil women, White van abductions, demographic reengineering and militarization of the Tamil areas.

4. The International Community and the Indian Government has to recognize, what is going on in Sri Lanka is genocide.

View Tim's articles published on Salem-News.com chronologically

Tim King's previous Salem-News.com reports on Sri Lanka:

Nov-03-2013: New Video of Sexually Assaulted and Murdered Captive Tamil Reporter is Bad News for Sri Lanka

May-19-2013: California Residents Observe Sri Lankan Tamil Genocide

Mar-06-2013 SRI LANKA: Still Drenched With the Blood of Ethnic Cleansing and War Crimes

Mar-03-2013: Black Flag Day in Tamil Nadu Expresses Solidarity with Eelam Tamils

Feb-23-2013: The War Crime Sri Lanka Can't Hide

Jan-22-2013: Sri Lanka's Continued Attempt to Murder a Minority Culture

Jan-17-2013: Special Feature: A Spark of Unity for Sri Lanka?

Jan-15-2013: Frederica Jansz Interview Reveals Shocking Danger Facing Sri Lankan Journalists

Nov-21-2012: Why Did Sri Lanka Kill So Many Children?

Sep-29-2012: Tamil Militants in Prison in Sri Lanka - Are They Still Alive?

Aug-26-2012: Shining Light on Sri Lanka's Dirty Secret: the Disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda

Jul-30-2012: Blindness Sweeps Large Parts of Sri Lanka

Jul-20-2012: Why Are Buddhists Committing Genocide Again?

Jul-17-2012: Tamil Voices Growing Louder Over Sri Lanka War Crimes and Nepotism

Jul-11-2012: US Media's Role in the Silent Death of Sri Lanka's Tamils - Political Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.com

Jul-09-2012: Significant Honor With Tamils from Around the Globe for Sri Lanka War Crime Reports

Jul-01-2012: Did a Ghost Crawl Inside My Laptop?

Jun-24-2012: Sri Lanka Can't Deny This... Disturbing Video Proves Sri Lanka Army Committed War Crimes

Jun-21-2012: New War Crime Videos Surface from Sri Lanka Tamil Genocide

Jun-10-2012: UN Targets Reporter Who Criticized Sri Lanka War Crime Suspect

Jun-08-2012: Captive, Handcuffed and Dying... 'Brutal' and 'Shocking' Describe Newly Released Sri Lanka War Crime Images

May-07-2012: Sri Lankan Buddhist Mobs Call for Mosque Demolition

Apr-27-2012: Big Trouble for Sri Lanka: UN Has Cluster Bomb Evidence from Northern Province

Apr-12-2012: Carpetbaggers in Sri Lanka: Traitors Terrorize Northern Tamils

Apr-10-2012: Sri Lanka: Genocide and Poor Toilet Training

Mar-23-2012 UN Warns Sri Lanka Against Retaliating Toward Humanitarian Activists

Mar-22-2012: White Flags, White Vans and White Lies? A Closer Look at the Death of Colonel Ramesh

Mar-18-2012: Is Google Earth Hiding Sri Lanka's Ghosts?

Mar-15-2012: Channel-4 Documentary Proves Sri Lanka Committed War Crimes

Mar-11-2012: War Crime Court and its Conflicting Interests

Mar-02-2012: A Very Uncivil War - Ghastly Images- Gross Detail and Denial of Sri Lanka's Genocide

Mar-01-2012: RSF Appeals to UNHRC to Denounce Sri Lanka Over Curbing Media Freedom

Feb-28-2012: Americans Praise Sri Lankan Politicians who Orchestrated Genocide

Feb-28-2012: Tweets from Tamil Eelam

Feb-24-2012: Two of Sri Lanka's Foulest War Crimes

Feb-19-2012: Will Another Documentary on Sri Lanka's Genocide Impact the Geneva Human Rights Session?

Feb-08-2012: The Questionable Effectiveness of Lighting Yourself on Fire

Feb-03-2012: Sri Lanka's Independence Day- a Black Day for Tamil Eelam

Jan-11-2012: While UN Claims Zero Tolerance, No Discipline of Sri Lankan Abusers in Haiti

Dec-28-2011: Why Was a Red Cross Manager on Vacation from Gaza Murdered in Sri Lanka?

Nov-24-2011: Fear, Genocide and Torture in Sri Lanka

Nov-21-2011: London Calling: Time for Sri Lanka's Release of Post-Conflict Report

Nov-11-2011: Ode to a Humble Hero of Sri Lanka: Dr Brian Senewiratne

Oct-15-2011: Genocide 101: World and Media Apathy

Oct-08-2011: Sri Lanka Joins Israel in Naval Attacks on Unarmed Fishermen

Oct-05-2011: War and its Aftermath... a Real Killer for Tourism

Oct-01-2011: Sri Lanka in the Crosshairs of Canadian Parliament

Sep-13-2011: Sri Lanka Recalls Diplomat Accused of War Crimes

Aug-31-2011: 'No Song and Dance' Over Sri Lanka War Crime Admissions

Jul-25-2011: Former Sri Lanka President's Children 'Reacted With Anguish' to Tamil Genocide Program

Jul-22-2011: M.I.A. - A Beautiful Reflection of the Besieged Tamils of Sri Lanka

Jul-17-2011: 44 Prisoners Join Hunger Strike at Vavuniya Prison in Sri Lanka

Jul-14-2011: The Bush Administration's Role in Sri Lanka's Tamil Genocide

Jul-13-2011: Fields Should be for Sports, not Genocide... Sri Lanka

Jun-29-2011: Sri Lanka Continues Genocide, Thumbing Nose at UN and World

Jun-20-2011: Sri Lanka's Violence Toward Tamil Minority Continues

Jun-18-2011: 'International Day in Support of Victims of Torture'Remember the Tamil Genocide

Jun-17-2011: European Tourists Waylaid in Sri Lanka, Resurgence of 'White Van' Crime

Jun-15-2011: Tamil Genocide Explored in Sri Lanka's Killing Fields

Jun-02-2011: UN Experts: Sri Lanka Tamil Genocide Video is Real

May-31-2011: New Song 'Depression' - Graphic Truth of Sri Lanka Tamil Genocide

May-31-2011: Sri Lanka Tamil Genocide: Killing the Messenger

May-03-2011: Confronting the Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka

Apr-27-2011: Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka Emerges Into Public View

Apr-22-2011: World Ignores Genocide of Sri Lanka's Tamil Population

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