A Jouney to Hell and Back

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The Truth Is More Terrifying Than Fiction


Since the conflict in the North and East of Sri Lanka broke out into large scale hostilities and eventually full-scale armed confrontation between the Libera­tion Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the security forces of the Sri Lankan government, there have been many attempts at negotiating a political settlement. The first talks were held in 1985 in Bhutan. The ‘Thimpu Talks’ was the first attempt at a negotiated settlement to the conflict. The Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) between the then Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of February 2002 was the last attempt made to solve the conflict that prevailed in the country …

“International Human Rights expert, Mr. Ian Martin, former Secretary General of Amnesty Inter­national who had made a study of the incorporation of the Human Rights dimension into the CFA, had made certain recommendations in that regard. How­ever this initiative was rejected by Mr. Anton Balasin­gham who objected to an international scrutiny of the human rights situation in the North and the East…”

Courtesy : http://warcrimesrilanka.blogspot.com/

 

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Does the US value Human Rights?

'Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan early on Sunday, igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility, Afghan and American officials said,' the New York Times reported Sunday.
In one of the most gruesome human rights abuses in recent times, a US soldier is reported to have walkedover a mile (1.6 km) from his base in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province trying door after door before breaking into three houses and killing 16 sleeping civilians, nine of whom were children. Reports quote villagers as saying that he had collected 11 of the bodies and set fire to them.
Sadly, this is only the latest in a string of violations of international humanitarian law by US forces stretching back several years.
Earlier this month, five American servicemen and an Afghan translator were reported to have burned copies of the Quran which were among religious materials seized from a detainee facility at Bagram Airfield last week, prompting a wave of outrage.

Read More :http://warcrimesrilanka.blogspot.com/2012/03/does-us-value-human-rights_16.html

 

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