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a) If Sri Lanka does not agree to a ceasefire Canada must apply sanctions

1. Apply trade and economic sanctions

-- Stop all Canadian financial aid including that of 20millions via CIDA

-- Canada must block the IMF Loan to Sri Lanka (2.89% of total 1.9B USD)

2. Impose Diplomatic sanctions

-- Expel Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth of Nation

-- Recall Canadian Ambassador to Sri Lanka

b) Is LTTE using civilians as "Human Shields"?

Not true

-- Canadians of Tamil origin who have kith and kin can vouch for the fact that the people in the "safe zones" are not being forced to stay but are doing so on their own accord and free will and this can be supported with personal stories.

-- The people don’t want to leave the "safe zones" and go to whom they consider to be the "enemy".

-- It’s unjust to ask civilians to leave their own land and habitat.

-- It’s against human rights to force people to leave when they don’t want to leave.

-- The international community should not force civilians to "leave" the

-- "safe zones" and drive them into concentration camps

-- By asking civilians to leave the "safe zones" the international community is accountable for what happens to them in SL government run "internment camps."

-- Any plan by the UN must respect the best interests and desires of the civilians.

-- What the international community should be doing is to save the people from the Sri Lankan government, where as the international community is delivering the people to the Sri Lankan government to be subjugated.

-- Sri Lankan government is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by shelling areas designated as "no fire zones" "50" to "200" and more killed on a daily basis. Casualty figures including children between Jan- March is estimated at 4000 dead and 11,000 injured but figures have risen since.

-- It’s not fair for the UN to side with the Sri Lankan government by asking them to leave the "safe zones" into "enemy" concentration camps where people are held captive.

c) Why force civilians into "concentration camps"?

1.The civilians held have no freedom of movement.

2. Civilians leaving the "safe zones" are not only held captive and enslaved they’re subjected to rape, killings and degrading interrogations as confirmed amongst others by a German writer and Human Rights activist, Thomas Seibert.

http://www.medico.de/en/press/releases/sri...0-persons/1151/

3. Food, medicine and medical supplies are pitifully inadequate.

4. Family members are separated.

5. Women and girls held in concentration camps are subjected to rape by soldiers while young men its alleged are either disappeared or handed over to the pro-government paramilitary forces to either carry out forced labor or be re-trained as fighters.

6. Those who have chosen to leave the "safe zones" including men, women and children are completely humiliated and traumatized having to undergo a rigorous screening process and ordered to be stripped naked in public and not only searched but photographed by soldiers.

7. It is also alleged that civilians who enter the government established concentration camps are relieved of their jewelry and other valuables which are never returned.

8. "As a relatively experienced Criminal Practitioner, it’s difficult to see how 200,000 people can be held hostage by a force the size of the Tamil Tigers, and without some sort of independent verification it is difficult for fair-minded people to be convinced that these people really are being held hostage."- Hugh Charlton, International Human Rights Lawyer.

9. DOES the issue of human shield absolve the UN from its absolute & prime duty to protect all innocent civilians from genocide ?

10. The Rwanda & Sebrenica genocides provide clues as to why the UN is adopting such a stance. "This same type of deliberate stalling, delaying and obfuscation by United Nations Officials preceded and occurred during the course of the genocidal massacre at Srebrenica. Of course these UN Officials were then (and are still today) acting at the behest of the Permanent Members of the Security Council, who supported Serbia taking over the Srebrenica "safe-haven" as designated by the Security Council,no matter what the cost to the innocent civilians seeking refugee there" - Prof. Francis Boyle, International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law.

d) Sri Lanka does not deserve financial support?

1) Tsunami money: It’s alleged that President Rajapaksa deposited tsunami aid funds into his personal bank accounts and claimed to have disbursed funds from it for

various projects. No proper accounting was ever made public. No audit was ever presented.

2. Likewise his brother Gotabaya Rajabakse, Defence Secretary and US Citizen, who worked as a cashier in a US based 7-11 store prior to his appointment as Secretary of Defense in Sri Lanka handling a budget of nearly US $ 1.7 billion and his other brother Basil Rajabakse are alleged to have purchased two houses in California which together are worth US $ 14.5 million (US$ 5.5 million and US$ 9.0 million) way over their official income that would need to be investigated.

3. The Rajabakse family controls 70% percent of the budget. It’s alleged that the journalist Lasantha Wickrematunga was silenced because he revealed too much about government corruption and criticized the cost of war and the killing of innocent civilians.

e) What is happening in the "liberated east"? Important lessons to North.

1. The Eastern province which is under government control is really worse off now than ever before the government introduced "democracy and development" under a puppet government headed by a former paramilitary officer. The provincial puppet government has no more powers than a small municipal council and functions at the pleasure of the Sri Lankan President.

2. The unsatisfactory nature of this arrangement in the light of foreign assistance that is likely to flow into the so called 'liberated areas ' has been highlighted in a report titled "Development Assistance and Conflict in Sri Lanka: Lessons from the Eastern Province" that has been released 16th April 2009 by the International Crisis Group. The report has concluded, "The east is far from being the model of democratization and post-conflict reconstruction that the government claims and offers important lessons for

the north." http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=6056

3. "The provision of humanitarian aid and reconstruction by itself is not enough", warns Donald Steinberg, Crisis Group Deputy President for Policy.

4. "The problems the people of the north and the east have been enduring for decades are ultimately political in nature. They require a careful, democratic and inclusive political response".

f) Most viable political solution

US President Obama has called for an end to hostilities, in a US Department of State statement, he called on the Sri Lankan government to put forward a proposal now to engage Tamils who do not espouse violence or terrorism to develop power sharing arrangements so that lasting peace and reconciliation can be achieved.

LTTE plenipotentiary Selvarajah Pathmanathan assuring the international community that the LTTE is ready "to meet the political aspirations of the Tamil Nation at the negotiating table through political means if a permanent cease-fire is ensured."

USA, Britain, EU, Canada, Australia and the International Community should take the following steps immediately to achieve durable peace in war- torn Sri Lanka.

What the Tamils want in pursuance of a political settlement leading to sustainable peace in the island of Sri Lanka:

1. Broker an immediate and permanent ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE.

2. Recognize LTTE as the vanguard force of the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle and engage the LTTE with the objective of negotiating de-proscription.

3. Recognize the NorthEast of the island as the homeland of the Tamil people, their right to Nationhood and Self-determination

4. Facilitate talks between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE on the basis of the Interim Self-Governing Authority (ISGA)*.

5. Restore and reconstitute the Free Sovereign and Secular State of Tamil Eelam that existed in the island of Ceylon prior to colonial conquest.

NB: * The ISGA proposal put forward by the LTTE in 2003, is the only constitutional proposal advanced so far by either party. It proposes cessation of hostilities and a cooperative effort towards regional development and reconstruction undertaken by an administration staffed by representatives appointed by both the Sri Lankan government

and LTTE, also providing for Muslim representation. In addition it provides for the growth of democratic institutions followed at the end of five years by free and fair elections under international oversight.

More relevant quotes are posted here: http://www.yarl.com/forum3/index.php?showtopic=56113

Edited by akootha

US President Obama has called for an end to hostilities, in a US Department of State statement, he called on the Sri Lankan government to put forward a proposal now to engage Tamils who do not espouse violence or terrorism to develop power sharing arrangements so that lasting peace and reconciliation can be achieved.

ஒரு மிசச்சிறந்த அஹிம்சாவாதி அடக்குமுறயின்பால் ஆயுதம் எந்த நிர்ப்பந்திக்கப்பட்டார்....அத

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தயவு செய்து link தரமுடியுமா?

Please provide with the link where the President Obama's statement is in English news

தயவு செய்து link தரமுடியுமா?

Please provide with the link where the President Obama's statement is in English news

sorry, its not my coment I forgot to quote it from Akootha's post

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