Sri Lanka: The time for an international investigation is now

By JS Tissainayagam Nov 21, 2013 

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s presence at last week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) facilitated coverage that might not have been possible otherwise for media organisations. But if the human rights and war crimes issues highlighted by the international media are to be redressed and Commonwealth values and international law upheld, the band-aid solution proposed by the Sri Lanka government and aided by the Commonwealth Secretariat has to be dismissed. Instead, what is required is implementing an international investigation into war crimes.

Tamils hail David Cameron as 'god' but Sri Lankan president is not a believer

• http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/david-cameron-visits-tamils-sri-lanka
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• The Guardian, Friday 15 November 2013 

David Cameron meets Tamil refugees in the Sabapathy Pillai refugee camp in Jaffna, northern Sri Lanka. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

The refugees of Sabapathy Pillai believed David Cameron had been sent by God to help them get their land back. A swarm of Jaffna women stormed through a line of military police to plead for his help in finding their missing loved ones.

Yet only a few hours later, the prime minister left a meeting with Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa no closer to securing an investigation into alleged war crimes, or an admission that many Tamils continue to be perse

Sri Lanka’s hidden genocide

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/11/04/sri_lankas_hidden_genocide.html

By: Rosie DiManno Columnist, Published on Mon Nov 04 2013

VAVUNIYA, SRI LANKA—Sri Lanka is an island nation in the shape of a tear drop, poignantly.

And countless are the tears that were shed amid the spasms of a savage civil war — as countless, as uncounted, as the dead.

The United Nations, which has acknowledged its calamitous failures under the Responsibility to Protect — R2P, a doctrine that Canada was pivotal in establishing — is still trying to tally the numbers and apportion the blame, four years on: 40,000 to 70,000 civilians killed over five months of the final conflagration, the number the UN now accepts, though many argue the figure is far higher.

SLA held Isaippiriyaa in custody before she was killed - Channel 4

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=36786

[TamilNet, Friday, 01 November 2013, 11:45 GMT]
Channel-4 has uncovered new evidence in the form of a video where the 27-year-old LTTE journalist Shoba (Isaippiriyaa) was seen under the custody of the Sri Lanka Army soldiers before she was killed. Previously, Channel-4 has released images of the journalist and TV commentator stripped naked, hands tied behind back, and shot dead. Channel-4 adds in its news report that this new evidence of war-crime will add to pressure to British Prime Minister David Cameron to not attend the Commonwealth leaders' meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo scheduled to take place this month. 

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