Delhi $ 100 to redeem 20 000 lives lost in SL massacres?

Nations that commit genocide, the crudest form of oppression on its minorities claim to be democratic simply because they hold suspect 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 by the SL massacres that occurred in the tiny ‘no fire zone’ in May (16-19) and the interning  of those who escaped the massacred kill 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 also ensures that SL and its partner Delhi do not face charges for the recent war crimes. However in recompense and as a humane gesture Delhi offers $ 100 million as relief to the 20 000 souls who lost their lives lost in those massacres.  

When UNHRC pursued these as war crimes, Delhi (Raman) the SL genocide partner quibbles over the civilian numbers killed in SL’s ‘no fire zone’. To escape culpability Delhi accuses 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 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 will be most damaging to 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 the SL’s crimes on the Tamils. As recompense for Delhi partnering in these crimes its much touted $ 100 million in relief is supposedly  to redeem the lives of the 20 000 massacred in May and the sufferings 300 000 civilians in the Vanni internment camps. SL is the winner all round, thanks to India’s robust UNHRC lobbying for SL. Humanity urges UNHRC to continue to pursue vigorously alternatives to punish the offenders.

vssubramaniam

SINGAPORE