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சிறப்புரிமையினை பயன்படுத்தி போர்க்குற்றவாளி சவேந்திர சில்வா பதில் மனுத்தாக்கல்

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போர்க்குற்றவாளி சவேந்திர சில்வா தன் மீதான் அமெரிக்காவில் தாக்கல் செய்யப்பட்ட வழக்கிற்கு எதிராக மனுத்தாக்கல் செய்துள்ளான். தனக்கு இருக்கும் இராஜதந்திர சிறப்புரிமைகளை சுட்டிக்காட்டி அமெரிக்க நீதிமன்றத்தில் பதில் மனுத் தாக்கல் செய்துள்ளான்.

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கடந்த செப்ரெம்பர் மாதம் சவேந்திரசில்வா மீதான இந்த வழக்கினை விடுதலைப்புலிகளின் தளபதியாக இருந்து சிங்கள ஆயுதப்படைகளினால் கொல்லப்பட்ட கேணல் ரமேஸ் அவர்களின் துணைவியாரால் தாக்கல் செய்யப்பட்டது.இதனைத்தொடர்ந்து சவேந்திரசில்வாவிற்கான அழைப்பாணையினை அவரது தனிப்பட்ட வீட்டில் சேர்ப்பிக்கப்பட்டது.

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இதே வேளை அமெரிக்கா போர்க்குற்றவாளி சவேந்திர சில்வாவுக்கு இராஜதந்திரி சிறப்புரிமையினை உறுதிப்படுத்தி பத்திரம் ஒன்று வழங்கியது. இந்த சிறப்புரிமையினை வைத்தே சவேந்திரசில்வா பதில் மனுத்தாக்கல் செய்துள்ளார்.

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Shavendra not entitled to immunity, argue attorneys for Tamil paintiffs

Attorneys for two Tamil plaintiffs Tuesday filed a formal response to Sri Lankan ex-Major General Shavendra Silva’s motion to dismiss the war crimes lawsuit against him in the Southern District of New York, and international human rights groups united to urge the United Nations to suspend the credentials of Silva, who is Sri Lanka’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Silva is facing allegations in federal court for war crimes including torture, extrajudicial killing and the intentional shelling of civilians during Sri Lanka’s armed conflict.

“The United Nations has a war criminal within its ranks. This is a moral and legal offense,” said Ali Beydoun, director at American University Washington College of Law’s UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic and a Senior Partner at SPEAK Human Rights & Environmental Initiative. “As the largest international body protecting peace and justice, the United Nations has a duty to allow a full investigation into General Silva’s war crimes. Silva should not be allowed to manipulate diplomatic immunity to use it as a shield for his crimes.”

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=34600

Sri Lanka: Suspend General Silva’s Credentials to Promote Justice

November 9, 2011

Mr. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

United Nations

2 United Nations Plaza

New York, N.Y. 10017

Re: Suspend General Silva’s Credentials to Promote Justice

Dear Mr. Secretary-General:

We write to ask you to urge the United Nations Credentials Committee to recommend that the General Assembly suspend the credentials of General Shavendra Silva to appear at the United Nations as a Representative of Sri Lanka. As you know, General Silva is being sued in the Southern District Court of New York for the extrajudicial killing of a civilian in the bombing of a hospital and for the torture and extrajudicial killing of a person hors de combat.

Overwhelming evidence showing that the Government of Sri Lanka perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity compels the suspension of General Silva’s credentials. This evidence has been collected under your direction by the Panel of Experts and was presented to you in an in-depth report. That report identified serious violations of international law and concluded that Sri Lanka’s conduct during the war amounted to an assault on the legal regime designed to protect civilians and mitigate atrocities during armed conflict. Last month, in an acknowledgement of the severity of the evidence, you forwarded the Panel’s report to the Human Rights Council. These U.N. efforts have raised victims’ hopes for justice and accountability for Sri Lanka’s war crime atrocities.

Although the Sri Lankan Government has an obligation to investigate and redress these crimes, it has failed to establish a mechanism for accountability that meets international standards, and has instead relied on its widely condemned Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. Rather than investigate General Silva for his responsibility in committing war crimes, the Government has rewarded him with a diplomatic position. Similarly, Sri Lanka has posted 22 former high-ranking military officials to diplomatic posts around the world, from the United States to Australia to Germany. Efforts to bring them to justice where they are posted are now proliferating, as the global movement for accountability grows. Sri Lanka should not be rewarded with unlimited immunity for war crimes for militarizing its diplomatic positions.

Inaction regarding General Silva’s credentials would impede the course of justice. Victims of war crimes in Sri Lanka deserve better from the largest international body designed to protect peace and justice. The world is closely watching these developments. As many do, we fear that permitting General Silva to retain his credentials would send a message to law-breaking governments around the world that the United Nations will not defend the cause of justice and that it will shelter war criminals and perpetrators of mass atrocities.

By encouraging the Credentials Committee to recommend to the General Assembly that General Silva’s credentials be suspended during the pendency of the New York litigation, you will protect justice and the rule of law. The plaintiffs in this suit seek only their day in court before a jury of neutral fact-finders — an opportunity that does not exist anywhere else in the world, currently or for the foreseeable future. If the General Assembly decides to suspend or revoke General Silva’s credentials, this will help allow a neutral jury to assess the case against him. I urge you to encourage the Credentials Committee to recommend to the General Assembly that General Silva’s credentials be suspended, and thereby ensure that the victims of torture and war crimes have their day in court.

Sincerely,

SPEAK Human Rights and Environmental Initiative

UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic at

American University Washington College of Law

Center for Constitutional Rights

Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School

Human Rights USA

World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights

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Campaign Against Criminalising Communities

Society for Threatened Peoples

http://www.omct.org/...2011/11/d21494/

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