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Should not the international community vigourously pursue the Sri Lanka Delhi war criminals

Nations that commit genocide, the crudest form of oppression on its minorities claim to be democratic simply because they infrequently conduct local government elections. Sri Lankan is a classic ‘how to’ guide on committing the worst human rights crimes and still escape criminality. India  effectively Delhi  (Tamil Nadu excluded) a partner in the SL genocide is as much tainted in the recent SL war crimes namely the SL massacres committed in the tiny ‘no fire zone’ in May (16-19) and the interning  of all those who escaped the massacred there. The initiatives that the UNHRC took in its Council meetings in May to pursue SL for war crimes were killed off by Delhi. Delhi’s move effectively approves the morality of the SL genocide and with it the enslavement of the Tamils. It for the moment may have saved SL and itself as SL's  partner from charges for those war crimes. Will Delhi's $ 100 for relief wash off its guilt in a genocide that culminated in the massacre of the 20 000 in the Delhi blessed no fire zone. Is this the end of the road for the war crimes charges that SL has to face? God bless; it is not. 

When UNHRC pursued these war crimes, Delhi (Raman) the SL genocide partner quibbled over the civilian numbers killed in SL’s ‘no fire zone’and as a diversion  accused the personnel of the UNHRC, mandated Human Rights groups and the West of using the ‘Eelam issue to embarrass the SL government and put its senior officers in the dock by disseminating unauthenticated high figures of civilian casualties’. The savagery of the  SL’s genocidal attacks on civilians (the intense bombardments in the narrow India blessed  ‘no-fire zone’, lobbing  grenades into bunkers where unarmed and starving civilians were taking shelter and bulldozing civilians ‘into mass graves along with the dead’) are all pushed  under the carpet. Leaks of graphic details of these crimes are effectively plugged for now. The ‘human shield’ Tamils who escaped the massacre but witnessed the massacres were herded straight into internment camps and kept incommunicado.  Dispositions of these internees at some stage is bound to haunt the offenders. TV images of the long marches to the camps of emaciated civilians vouch to SL's savage use of starvation as a weapon of war on unarmed civilians. The Delhi blessed 'no fire zone' and ‘death camps’ the brain children of Narayanan/Menon duo were for the massacres to remain as utmost secrets without independent witnesses to frustrate potential SL war crimes proceedings. Lurid pictures of the SL massacres are in the public domain worldwide, thanks to the internet. The Sunday Times Gothabhaya Rajapakse interview incriminated the Indian trio’s (Foreign Secretary, National Security Advisor and Defense Secretary) in the step by step liaising with their SL counterparts on the timing and details of the (May 16 to 19) massacres, RAW’s role in the capture and massacre of the Ltté leadership along with a number of civilians that Delhi trio considered acceptable to Delhi. RAW's over flights gave precise target co-ordinates and ground conditions for the massacres.  Hence the prudence India adopted in the May UNHRC meeting. While India viewed the West's SL war crimes initiatives in the UNHRC as a threat, the Tamils viewed that the West was acting perfectly morally exposing SL's inhuman crimes against unarmed civilians. An unabashed Delhi is sure to continue to frustrate the UNHRC’s efforts to establish the criminality of the SL genocide. SL lost its membership in the UNHRC as a HR abuser exactly a year ago. This isn’t sufficient retribution for its war crimes on the Tamils. Delhi's much touted $ 100 million is unlikely erase Delhi's guilt over the souls of the 20 000 massacred in May and the inhuman sufferings of 300 000 civilians in the Vanni internment camps. SL gloats over its achievements, thanks to India’s robust UNHRC lobbying for SL. Humanity especially the Tamils world-wide urge UNHRC to continue to pursue vigorously alternatives to punish the SL genocide offenders.

vssubramaniam

SINGAPORE