[TheLandIsOurs] No way to celebrate a Jubilee

[Ram Selva]

On the rounded figure of 40k murdered in cold blood (as tourists and 
various parasites of all sorts leveraged the extra perks offered by all 
sorts of setups in Sri Lanka) please refer to an upcoming book by 
Frances Harrison, former BBC setup in Sri Lanka.
Frances Harrison has been out and about in recent times advertising 
(purely for profit reasons - theres nothing good about her intentions) 
but she does give some highlight to a much more worrying figure of 
147,000+ still unaccounted for!!

Yes folk 147 k fellow human beings and the British involvement in 
hiding this and in times colluding with elements of the most classical 
of a land issue created and sustained by the British system is nothing 
but disgusting.


<http://www.journalism.co.uk/news-commentary/frances-harrison-sri-lanka-journalists-failed-to-tell-the-story-of-war-crimes/s6/a549285/>
"Frances Harrison is a former BBC correspondent in Sri Lanka and her 
book "Still Counting the Dead" which tells survivors' stories from the 
2009 war will be published in London by Portobello Books in July in 
e-book form and October in print."

The land issues of the geopolitically and international trade-wise 
central island are not just about the expected land grabs by 
multinational corps (many operating directly through corrupt UK 
parliamentarians), it extends to clueless 'activists' falling for 
sophisticated operations being conducted through the idyllic island by 
the highest levels of international land abusers (Rockefellers and 
Soroses)

Sri Lanka is a British Colony that became a republic in 1972 (when Sri 
Lanka was formed from Ceylon -- Elizabeth was the head of state up until 
then; troubles including the state organised pogroms on Tamils started 
during her direct reign; the 1983 pogrom and the mass influx of Tamils 
to the UK was the reason in 1985 or so visa restrictions were imposed on 
the colony that never really got independent)

Ram


On Mon, 28 May 2012 08:24:02 +0100, mark at tlio.org.uk wrote:
> From: Sri Lanka Campaign Information <info at srilankacampaign.org>
> Subject: No way to celebrate a Jubliee
>
>
> This year, Queen Elizabeth II in celebrating her diamond jubilee, to
> mark sixty years as monarch and head of the commonwealth will be
> hosting a private luncheon in London on the 6th of June with the 
> Prime
> Minister, the Foreign Secretary ... and a war criminal.
>
>
> The President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, a man against whom the
> UN have found credible allegations of responsibility for the murder 
> of
> 40,000 civilians, and who leads a government that oversaw the
> disappearance of 32 people this March alone, will join the Queen and
> other heads of state at the taxpayer-funded meal.
>
> This is no way to celebrate a jubilee.
>
> The Government of Sri Lanka were rightly taken to task by the UN 
> Human
> Rights Council, both for their failure to address accountability for
> past crimes, and their continued use of torture and oppression. They
> responded in typically belligerent fashion by redoubling their 
> attacks
> on independent journalists and human rights defenders. It is 
> therefore
> absolutely vital that at this key moment the international community
> keep the pressure on. This is not the moment to treat the President 
> of
> Sri Lanka to pomp and pageantry -- nor should the Queen be forced to
> spend herjubilee posing for photos with a man who should be indicted
> for mass murder.
>
> You can help make sure this doesn't happen
>
> The British Royal Family has recently introduced ways for you to give
> them your opinions. We can and should use these channels to tell them
> that the Queen should be celebrating her jubilee in the company of 
> war
> criminals.
>
> This is the form that the Royal Household has set up to send a 
> message
> to the Queen: http://www.thediamondjubilee.org/send-message-queen
>   - please use it to register your disgust at President Mahinda's
> presence. A sample message is provided at the end of this email.
>
> The Royal household is very sensitive to negative publicity around 
> the
> jubilee. There is a good chance that this will be successful but, 
> even
> if he does come, it is important that we register our strong
> objection. At least President Mahinda will not be able to portray his
> visit as a public relations triumph.
>
> The jubilee should not be about torture and mass murder. Please send
> the Queen that message today.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> The Sri Lanka Campaign
>
>
> PS. Please spread the word about this campaign to friends and family.
> You can use the website we have set up to do this. If you use social
> media you can also send the Queen the message on Facebook, on twitter
> (by messaging her, using the hashtag #diamondjubilee or both) or by
> liking or retweeting the messages we have sent.
>
>
>
> Sample message:
>
> Madam,
>
> Congratulations on the sixtieth anniversary of your accession and
> sixty years as head of the Commonwealth. But please let me say I am
> sorry to learn that the President of Sri Lanka, Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa,
> has been invited to the anniversary luncheon on the 6th of June. Out
> of respect for the many victims of this man's brutality I would ask
> you to think again.
>
> President Rajapaksa led the 2009 campaign against the Tamil Tigers in
> which around 40,000 innocent civilians were killed. A UN panel found
> there were credible allegations that he was responsible for war
> crimes. He has presided over a government that has overseen the 
> murder
> of 35 journalists with no effective investigation. This March alone
> his security forces did nothing to prevent, and in many cases were
> complicit in, 32 disappearances. UN investigations show that torture
> is endemic throughout Sri Lanka.
>
> Sri Lanka is still trying to heal. The President of Sri Lanka is
> hindering this process and the international community is finally and
> rightly starting to take him to task over this. But all that work
> risks being undone if he is fêted at events such as yours. Please
> reconsider.
>
> --
> Tamils protest against Rajapaksa’s invite to Diamond Jubilee
> 26th May, 2012
> Ref:
> 
> https://stopdeportations.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/tamils-protest-against-rajapaksas-invite-to-diamond-jubilee/
>
> Hundreds of Tamils and supporters gathered outside Downing Street 
> this
> afternoon to protest against the Her Majesty’s Government’s decision
> to invite Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa to the Queen’s Diamond
> Jubilee event.
>
> Campaign group ‘Tamil Solidarity‘ charge Rajapaksa with Genocide for
> his role in the civil war and ongoing human rights abuses.
>
> Her Majesty’s Government have planned another mass deportation of
> Tamil asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka in advance of the Diamond Jubilee;
> flight number PVT030 on Thursday 31st May 2012 at half past three in
> the afternoon, leaving from an undisclosed airport. This is despite
> mounting evidence that people deported by the British Government to
> Sri Lanka have subsequently been interrogated, abducted, tortured 
> and,
> in at least one case, killed.
>
> During the protest, a coach from the company ‘Just Go!’ drove down
> Whitehall. This company are used by the UK Border Agency to drive
> deportees from detention centres to the airport on the day of a mass
> deportation, as can be seen from this video of a previous deportation
> to Sri Lanka on 15th December 2011.
>
> Mass deportations to Sri Lanka resumed in June 2011 after Britain’s
> ex-Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, arranged a meeting with Sri Lanka’s
> Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagma and opposition MP Wijedasa
> Rajapaksa during the week of June 6, 2011 in Colombo’s Hilton hotel. 
> A
> flight followed on 16th June 2011. There have been 3 more since then
> (28th September 2011, 15th December 2011 and 28th February 2012).
>
>
>
>
> SEE ALSO: UK accused of permitting alleged war-criminal to escape
> prosecution
> TamilNet, Friday, 06 April 2012
> Ref: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=35070
>
>
> In May 2009, the tranquil paradise of Sri-Lanka was schizophrenically
> turned upside with brutal horror as the area of the North West of the
> island became scene to one of the worst outbreaks of mass killing
> witnessed in the last century. The conflict between the Sri Lankan
> military and the Liberation Tigers
> of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which had re-commenced in January 2009 resulted
> in an estimated 100,000 people being killed, mainly Tamil civilians,
> mostly as a result of indiscriminate aerial bombardment. Human-rights
> abuse continued in the so-called 'welfare camps' where over 280,000
> displaced Tamil civilians were kept for months. Abuses are still
> reported in the country 3 years on (Amnesty International recently
> issued a report saying human rights violations remain routine in
> Sri-Lanka three years after the end of the war Ref:
> 
> http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/new-report-exposes-ongoing-illegal-detention-sri-\
> lanka-2012-03-13 ).
>
> A reminder of the genocide of Tamil people in Sri Lanka in Spring
> 2009:
>
> Sri Lanka War-Crimes Accountability The Tamil Perspective 15/01/2010
> Ref: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/12/470208.html
>
> Genocide in Sri Lanka (11/04/209)
> Ref: http://london.indymedia.org/articles/1108
>
> UN concealed carnage to keep Sri Lanka goodwill (30/05/2009)
> Ref: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/431282.html
>
> Bloodbath unfolding in Sri Lanka (13/05/2009)
> Ref: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/429989.html
>
> Sri Lanka Gov't capture last Tamil Tiger territory/Blood & Dishonour
> (16/05/2009)
> Ref: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/430293.html
>
> Throughout April and May 2009, in the face of the Sri Lankan
> Government's blockade of independent media and international monitors
> into Northern Sri Lanka, reports and evidence emerged
> from independent investigations conducted by "War Without Witness"
> that Sri Lankan military forces used banned arms such as cluster 
> bombs
> and chemical weapons (including Phosgene and Mustard Gas) in their
> attacks leading to what the UN estimates to be 25000-30000 civilian
> deaths in the last week of fighting alone. Owing to the Sri Lankan
> Government's continued blockade of independent media and 
> international
> monitors into the Northern regions of the country, at the time, the
> international media reported a laughable estimate of the amount of
> civilian casualties having been as low as 7000 between January - 
> March
> 2009. Media blockades in the country continued for over 18 months
> after the end of the war (and remain to a large extent) which has
> meant that the truth of the extent of the humanitarian crisis has 
> been
> largely shielded from the world, but has been revealed by Channel-4
> who in their 2 documentaries "Sri Lanka: The Killing Fields" the 
> first
> one originally broadcast on Tuesday 14th June 2011 and Part-2
> broadcast on Wednesday 14th March 2012 revealed incontrovertible
> evidence of war crimes, such as previously unseen footage of
> extra-judicial executions, and evidence of torture and other
> ill-treatment and sexual violence of Tamil civilians and Tamil Tiger
> (LTTE) fighters.
> .
>
> The Sri-Lankan government's version of events in the immediate
> aftermath of the conflict were largely accepted by the western media.
> Bell Pottinger were hired by the Sri Lankan government at some time
> shortly after the end of the civil war on the island, and they
> assisted in convincing the international community that the SL govt.
> be given a chance to reform themselves in the aftermath of a war in
> 2009 against the separatist Tamil Tigers. In Channel 4’s recent
> documentary “Sri Lanka – The Killing Fields – part-2”, senior Bell
> Pottinger executive David Wilson was secretly filmed bragging that
> Bell Pottinger wrote Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa’s speech at the 
> UN
> in 2011. What happened in Sri Lanka in 2009 is one of the darkest
> chapters in humanity’s history, and of note was the lack of coverage
> by the media of what happened at the time and since, as a result of a
> lack of response from the civilised world. Bell Pottinger assisted in
> this process.
>
> A UN panel of experts, appointed by the secretary-general, reported
> last year that as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the
> final weeks of the 26-year-long war. They found "credible 
> allegations"
> of war crimes – by both sides, although they said that most of the
> civilians had been killed by government artillery, which even
> deliberately targeted hospitals.
>
> On 7th March 2012, the United States submitted the draft resolution
> against Sri-Lanka to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
> at its 19th session in Geneva, which began on February 27. The
> resolution notes that Sri Lanka has failed to implement the
> reconciliation measures recommended by the country's own Lessons
> Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and called for Sri Lanka
> to take more concrete actions towards reconciliation and especially,
> addressing the accountability issue and implementing the
> recommendations put forward by the LLRC. The resolution was adopted 
> on
> 22 March with 24 in favour, 15 against (including China and Cuba).
>
> Though the resolution seeks to address alleged violations of
> international law, critics point to the fact that the resolution, in
> giving credibility to the LLRC, will only entrench Sinhala state rule
> over Tamil territories and provide it a fraudulent legitimacy to do
> so.