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URGENT Appeal! Write to Botswana

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  • கருத்துக்கள உறுப்பினர்கள்

All Tamil acitivist please send all your emails to following to defeta G L Peiries's attempt to brain wash the Botswana ! Also note that Botswana already aligned with West over Syrian issue!

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Email Address: mofaic-admin@lists.gov.bw

...

PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC BOTSWANA TO THE UNITED NATIONS

Email: botswana@un.int

Office of the President

http://www.gov.bw/en/Help--Support/Contact-us/?FromPageID=1655

The Botswana Centre for Human Rights

admin.ditshwanelo@info.bw or landrights.ditshwanelo@micro.co.bw

While Tigers and Lions are at Geneva war - Jackal is focusing on African Countries!

GL LOBBIES BOTSWANA

Botswana is among the countries that welcomed the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) at the 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last month.

In his lobbying spree against the United States sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris held bilateral talks with the leaders of Botswana last Friday.

Botswana is among the countries that welcomed the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) at the 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last month. However, the country’s defense, Justice and Security Minister Dikgakgamatso N. Seretse who addressed the session stressed the need to address the alleged violations of human rights.

Republic of Botswana - Government portal www.gov.bw

to: mofaic-admin@lists.gov.bw

cc: botswana@un.int, admin.ditshwanelo@info.bw, landrights.ditshwanelo@micro.co.bw

Subject : Sri Lanka's peace need help from UNHRC

Hon. Phandu Skelemani,

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Dear Sir,

You have recently voiced for the Syrian people where more than 7000 people were killed. I thank You for that. And in Sri Lanka, more than 40000 people were killed according to UN in 2009. No one was ever found guilty for those crimes.

Sri Lanka faces a crucial vote at UNHRC in coming days and a resolution initiated by USA needs to be passed.

Rights after the end of civil war in 2009, UNHRC congratulated Sri Lanka and has requested to find peace and justice. Nearly three years past a few meaningful steps have been taken while impunity and injustice continue. And the fragile peace remains uncertain. If Sri Lanka was capable of resolving the issues by itself, it would have already done. It perhaps needs external help.

Please support the US resolution!

Sincerely,

Cc: PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC BOTSWANA TO THE UNITED NATIONS

  • தொடங்கியவர்
  • கருத்துக்கள உறுப்பினர்கள்

06/04/2012

To:

mofaic-admin@lists.gov.bw, botswana@un.int

Cc:

admin.ditshwanelo@info.bw, landrights.ditshwanelo@micro.co.bw

The President Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama,

Botswana

His Excellency,

Nearly three years since the Sri Lankan conflict ended, the Sri Lankan resolution is not even about the international investigations on the alleged war crimes committed by the Sri Lankans, as outlined by the UN's own expert panel report.

Today, the lives of Tamil minorities today in the North and East provinces are controlled by a military rule and the residents are reportedly living under the jackboot of an occupation army. The Governors of North and East provinces are ex-military officers alleged with war crimes charges and the military, civilian ratio is reportedly 1 to 10 in the areas. According to the Sri Lankan government's census report taken between 2008 and 2010, there are still 146,679 people unaccounted for since the war ended in May 2009.

The International Crisis Group recently released a report on Sri Lankan women's insecurity in the North and East, stating that 'the heavily militarised and centralised control of the north and east -with almost exclusively male, Sinhalese security forces - raises perticular problems for women there in terms of safety, sense of security and ability to access assistance. They have little control over their lives and no reliable institutions to turn to'. The group blamed the international community for failing to appreciate and respond effectively to the challenges faced by Tamil women and girls and called for a concerted and immediate action from the international governments to take steps to protect them.

The military of Sri Lanka is All-Sinhalese, motivated by genocidal perceptions, and it has acquired proportions pervading diplomacy to economy. This is the very reason why Sri Lanka has been unable to contain its ethnic pograms, as it escalated from mob violence, massive refugee exodus to an all-out military rule today with minorities being psycologically conditioned by the system.

The long history of Sri Lankan ethnic violences is nothing new to the United Nations or the international community.

Failure and inexcusable delays on the part of the member nations of Human Rights Council to have a credible investigation into Sri Lanka's often violent and tortured history, must be viewed vis-a-vis the other repressive regimes killing their own people indiscriminately. The brutalities against innocent civilians we see today are growing more and more violent and finding amicable solutions are becoming ever more gridlocked for institutions like the United Nations.

The UN panel of experts MARZUKI DARUSMAN, STEVEN RATNER and YASMIN SOOKA who are appointed by UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon has written the following in their recent article in New York Times.

"Given Sri Lanka’s unwillingness to take concrete steps, the best way to get to the truth is for the council to create an independent investigative body to determine the facts and identify those responsible, as we recommended in our report".

http://www.nytimes.c...y-war.html?_r=2

Tamil National Alliance Leader Mr Sampanthan (Majority party in the North and East of Sri Lanka, which represents Tamils) said in his letter to UNHRC members-

"We are convinced that a speedy resolution of the ethnic issue through a negotiated settlement with the government on granting the North and East access to powers of governance is necessary to reverse these trends. Despite many government commitments at the talks not being honoured, we have patiently and responsibly engaged the government in a series of bilateral talks in this regard since January 2011. We were also very disappointed when the government irresponsibly and unilaterally withdrew from these bilateral talks in January 2012. We remain committed to the evolution of a reasonable, workable and durable political solution within an undivided, united country".

"We observe that at the upcoming 19th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, a Resolution will be tabled that will declare that the government of Sri Lanka has not yet done enough to implement the recommendations of the LLRC, and will comprehensively address the issue of accountability. You are aware that the Sri Lankan government has consistently failed to abide by its commitments and to implement recommendations made by Commissions appointed by the government. This Resolution will provide an opportunity for the fulfillment of the commitments repeatedly made by the government of Sri Lanka, and now contained in the recommendations of the LLRC, and thereby for the realization of the legitimate aspirations of the Tamil people". TNA Leader.

http://www.tamilcana...om/article/6224

International Crisis Group report on Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Women’s Insecurity in the North and East

http://www.crisisgro...h-and-east.aspx

Therefore, I invite your excellency's conscience, to urge the Botswana's ambassador to voice for the eluding peace and dignity for the Sri Lankan minority population and to invest his capacity at the Human Rights Council to make the world more safer and stronger.

Thank you very much for your kind attention.

Respectfully

Edited by Queen

அகூதா, குவீன் இருவரின் தொடர் முயற்சிகளுக்கு நன்றிகள். இவற்றிலும் எனது பங்களிப்பு நிச்சயம் உண்டு.

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