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US Tax money funding genocide in Sri Lanka

IMF bailout to fund genocide

The Sri Lankan Government has applied for $1.9 billion dollars from the IMF. At present, the Sri Lankan government is carrying out a genocidal war against its Tamil minority. Sri Lanka’s war budget last year was $1.6 billion, and it is certain that money borrowed from the IMF is going to be spent on war. In other words, taxpayer’s money is going to fund a genocidal war. The IMF’s mandate is to promote economies and not to fund a genocidal war.

The Human Rights Watch, in a letter to the IMF, has stated why the IMF should not give money to Sri Lanka: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/03/23/lett...oan-request.The Human Rights Watch has brought to attention the genocidal war that is being carried out by the Sri Lankan government. Since January 2009, over 2,800 civilians have been killed and over 7,000 wounded according to the United Nations. Several countries, including Canada, the United States, the UK and India, have called for a ceasefire. However, the Sri Lankan government has continued the killing. Most of the killing has resulted from the bombing of government designated “safety zone”. UN estimates that there are over 150,000 Tamils in “Safety Zone”. Now the SriLanka military is poised to enter the “Safety Zone”. If they enter the “Safety Zone” there would be a “bloodbath” according Sir John Holmes. It is feared that tens of thousands of Tamils might be massacred similar to Rwanda genocide. This genocidal war has to be brought to an end

SriLanka government has kicked out all the NGO and media. Several journalists have been killed. The media is silenced. More factual details can be found here: http://www.freeourpress.org/Issues.aspx. Anyone that tries to bring out the truth is silenced through murder, intimidation and insults. Most of the news that is given is taken from what the SriLankan government says. If SriLanka is not lying and covering up the truth, then it would give free access to journalist.

A decision is to be made within the next two days. Each government has been allotted a certain percentage of votes in the IMF. Western countries including Canada, the US, the UK, and Germany have more than 50% of the share of votes. Should all these countries work in concert, the channeling of IMF funds to the Sri Lankan government’s genocidal war on Tamils could be stopped. The general public in all donor countries should support this since every one of them has economic issues, and the money that is given to the IMF could be put to better use domestically or in another developing country that is going to spend the money in a responsible way to stabilize their domestic economies, thereby helping to stabilize the global economy.

Citizens should persuade their country to vote against it because it is tax payer’s money and it cannot be wasted on a genocidal war. IMF should be persuaded to use bailout money in countries where it would be used to stabilize their economy thereby stabilizing global and domestic economy. Every vote to stop this bailout will save some life.