Posted on June 28th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The War
crimes’ charge, with its wild claims of excessive deaths needed international
support. Therefore Eelamists pushed for ‘impartial’ reports on Eelam War IV
(2006-2009).The result was four reports which discussed the war crimes of Eelam
War IV.
They are
Report of
the Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka (Darusman report), March 2011
the Commission of Inquiry on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation, (LLRC report) November 2011
The Report on the second mandate of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into complaints of abductions
and disappearances (Paranagama
report) August 2015.
Report of the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL report) September 2015.
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to determine if they are permissible collateral damage, a
violation of IHL only occurs if there is an intentional attack directed against civilians (violation of principle of distinction),
or if an attack is launched on a military objective with the knowledge that the incidental civilian injuries would be clearly excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage (violation principle of proportionality).”
In the final stages of the war, according to the Report of the Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka around 330,000 civilians were trapped in an ever decreasing area, fleeing the shelling but kept hostage by the LTTE and being used as a strategic human buffer between themselves and the advancing SLA.”
Posted on March 17th, 2021
By shenali Waduge
The Mahinda Rajapakse government sought the legal opinion of a group of distinguished international legal luminaries who have been involved in war tribunals and who knew the laws related to conflicts. Reading these expert opinions against the PoE and the OISL reports as well as the biased and interfering statements of the OHCHR head, many would realize that the UNHRC has been compromised and the question is by whom! The legal arguments and the laws quoted by these two distinguished legal luminaries are worth reading to understand the nature of the bias and one-sided propaganda based vendetta that the UN/UNHRC and others have stooped to.
Victims were not consulted when they drafted this Resolution and ignored joint appeals by Tamils, before they submitted this arbitrarily written Resolution