Calling for the evacuation of civilians and making them to end up in the hands of their killers, is taking side with one of the parties to the conflict and amounts to another one of the war crimes, perhaps the most serious one of them when comes from a world body of human rights, said Jaffna MP, Kajendran, responding to a statement from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Friday, March 13.
The High Commissioner, Ms. Navi Pillai called on both the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE to immediately suspend hostilities in order to allow the evacuation of the entire civilian population by land or sea, a press release from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said.
She didn’t say anything on where should they be evacuated or on who would be responsible for them thereafter.
By a subtle twist of realities ultimately in favour of genocidal Colombo, the OHCHR is trying to justify evacuation and not protection of civilians where they are, by equating Colombo government and the LTTE in war crimes, the MP noted.
"This is not a balanced judgment."
By a subtle twist of realities ultimately in favour of genocidal Colombo, the OHCHR is trying to justify evacuation and not protection of civilians where they are, by equating Colombo government and the LTTE in war crimes, the MP noted.
"This is not a balanced judgment."
"It neither serves humanitarian cause nor the affected civilians, but favours only the oppressors."
"What the OHCHR is envisaging is ‘enforced surrender’, even if people are not willing to surrender themselves into the hands of a genocidal government," the MP said.
Ultimately the civilians will end up in the barbed wire camps of the government after losing a part of them in the screening process.
"Where was the OHCHR when this was happening to the thousands who got into the hands of the government in the last couple of months, and what it was able to do on the conditions of the internment camps," asked the MP.
"It is not a natural catastrophe justifying evacuation. It is a situation deliberately created by a chauvinistic government and by the greed of certain world powers."
"The UN, especially its human rights arm, needs to stand upright in indicting the real culprits and in stopping their war of atrocities.
"The talk of evacuation comes from the failure, incompetence and unwillingness in rendering protection.
"Whether those who are now calling for evacuation are prepared to take full responsibility to the safety, wellbeing, rehabilitation and freedom of all the civilians, and what mandate and power they have is assuring them are crucial questions."
"The UN which is not prepared to take full responsibility of the situation in the island, which has withdrawn its agencies from the war zone and which is not able to assert itself with the Sri Lankan government in protecting the civilians has no moral grounds to take side only on the evacuation issue."
Meanwhile the already artful OHCHR press release, quoting Ms Navi Pillai, was twisted and painted further by some international news agencies to discredit the LTTE and to the benefit of Colombo. They didn’t fail to bring in the South African, minority Tamil profile of Ms. Navi Pillai.
"What the OHCHR is envisaging is ‘enforced surrender’, even if people are not willing to surrender themselves into the hands of a genocidal government," the MP said.
Ultimately the civilians will end up in the barbed wire camps of the government after losing a part of them in the screening process.
"Where was the OHCHR when this was happening to the thousands who got into the hands of the government in the last couple of months, and what it was able to do on the conditions of the internment camps," asked the MP.
"It is not a natural catastrophe justifying evacuation. It is a situation deliberately created by a chauvinistic government and by the greed of certain world powers."
"The UN, especially its human rights arm, needs to stand upright in indicting the real culprits and in stopping their war of atrocities.
"The talk of evacuation comes from the failure, incompetence and unwillingness in rendering protection.
"Whether those who are now calling for evacuation are prepared to take full responsibility to the safety, wellbeing, rehabilitation and freedom of all the civilians, and what mandate and power they have is assuring them are crucial questions."
"The UN which is not prepared to take full responsibility of the situation in the island, which has withdrawn its agencies from the war zone and which is not able to assert itself with the Sri Lankan government in protecting the civilians has no moral grounds to take side only on the evacuation issue."
Meanwhile the already artful OHCHR press release, quoting Ms Navi Pillai, was twisted and painted further by some international news agencies to discredit the LTTE and to the benefit of Colombo. They didn’t fail to bring in the South African, minority Tamil profile of Ms. Navi Pillai.
