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300,000 Tamils held in Nazi-style concentration camps

by Tamiya | May 23, 2009 at 04:48 am

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Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School; he also received a Ph. D. in political science from Harvard University.

300,000 Tamils held in Nazi-style concentration camps, says Prof. Boyle

[TamilNet, Friday, 22 May 2009, 12:30 GMT]

"These Nazi-style concentration camps that the Government of Sri Lanka is now forcibly imposing on at least 300,000 completely innocent Tamil civilians constitute acts of genocide within the meaning of Article II(c) of the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which Sri Lanka is a contracting party," Professor Boyle who is an expert international law and teaches at the University of Illinois College of Law said.

Article II(c) of the 1948 Genocide Convention: "c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."

All other contracting parties to the Genocide Convention such as the United States, Britain, France and India have an absolute obligation under Article I of the Genocide Convention "to prevent" these acts of genocide against Tamils perpetrated by the GOSL under the guise of concentration camps, Professor Boyle said.

"Yet so far these other States have done nothing to alleviate the genocidal plight of the Tamils in Vanni.

"Unless these other states act immediately to rectify the genocidal humanitarian situation for the Tamils in Vanni, they will all become "complicit" in these the GOSL's latest acts of genocide against the Tamils in violation of Genocide Convention Article III(e) that prohibits, condemns and criminalizes: "(e)Complicity in genocide," Boyle added.

"These states have already made a mockery out of history's post World War II emphatic injunction that motivated the drafting of the Genocide Convention: Never again!" Boyle said in a note to TamilNet.

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jahorear

at 11:41 on May 23rd, 2009

The Sinhalese are raping Tamil women and children. Torture and kill as much as possible.

sathyajith

at 11:58 on May 23rd, 2009

kill as much as possible.

How many? with and without Late Tamil terrorists Ltte?

Is Mr. B.F on holidays? last time i hear only from F.B

senthil5000

at 12:55 on May 23rd, 2009

Sri Lanka has completed a war without witness .. The massacres are comparable to the holocaust where numerous jews were killed.. the world will watch any such killings without any issues..

Thiruselvam.K

at 13:40 on May 23rd, 2009

SRI LANKA'S TRAP. It is a self claim that the war is over.

One cannot belief that two big boys from UNITED NATIONS. a Mr.Moon (whose English needs improvement) and a Mr Holmes are being connived to dance to the tunes of Sri Lankan Prime Minister's wish.

Are they both being taken to sites that should be visited or are they being taken to mock sites. Watching Mr Moon on television in his conferences outfit, and escorted by many in equally well dressed outfits, it is all a DRAMA. Expecting improvements in six months, without even allowing Red Cresent, is tantamount to lying to the world.

There is still no open-ness from the Sri Lankan Government.