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Posted on June 14th, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS The main charge against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC is that they deliberately killed thousands of civilians in the last phase of Eelam War IV. Rajiva Wijesinha was Secretary-General of the Sri Lankan Government Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) from 2007–2009. In that capacity Rajiva had access to war data. Rajiva found that very few allegations of civilian deaths were made to the Peace Secretariat until the end of January 2009, when for the first time there was allegations of hundreds killed. In 2008 when forces took Kilinochchi, the total civilian deaths according to Tamilnet was only 78. It ....
My colleague and friend Kumudini David recently had a PCR test done and tested positive for COVID-19. She was given the choice of staying in a hotel or a resort but could not afford that as the cost is about LKR 250,000 for the period of supervised quarantine. She opted for the local quarantine center alternative, monitored and controlled by the Sri Lankan Government and supervised by the SL Army, provided free of charge to all citizens in mandatory quarantine. Kumu has kept a detailed journal of her experience at this facility, from the bus trip to the allocated regionally located quarantine centre, through the days that followed, updating her friends and followers on Facebook. ....
IPKF: A forgotten chapter ? Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) It is now a fading 33 years plus, when in 1987 the Indian Defence Forces made their foray into the island nation of Sri Lanka. At that point in history, things had taken a turn for the worse with the Liberation Tamil Tigers Eelam (LTTE) a terrorist organisation embroiled in a bloody battle with the Sri Lankan Army. The LTTE was pushed into a corner and its end appeared imminent, till India intervened to rescue the Tamils of Sri Lanka at the behest of Tamil Nadu considering their ethnic affinity. An airdrop of relief supplies under code name OP POONAMALAI on June 4, 1987 was executed by India, to break the blockade put in force by the Sri Lankan Army which had ringed Jaffna. From supposed rescuers of Tamils to the sinister epithet “Indian People Killing Force” the label coined by the local Tamils there was a sea change in perception of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). ....
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.” ....