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Message: <blockquote data-quote="makinda" data-source="post: 474966" data-attributes="member: 29217">2001-2006 Sri Lanka's War on Eelam Tamils in the Shadow of a Ceasefire    "...The plan is to destabilize the Tigers, bait the group into confrontation and ultimately launch an offensive aimed at destroying the fractured Tamil movement once and for all," the analysts at Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) said quoting unnamed sources inside the Sri Lankan government....Colombo probably hopes a renewed guerrilla war will be tempered by internal struggles and that, once weakened, the Tigers can be destroyed, the US analysts said....According to the US analysts, in the event of a renewed war “the Tigers will likely end up weaker - perhaps no longer in a position to make the demands for autonomy that helped cause the internal strife in the first place. 'On the other hand, baiting a wounded tiger could be a dangerous game',  they cautioned. Colombo promoting Karuna to destroy LTTE with tacit approval of US  says US based think tank Stratfor  September 2000 Sri Lanka's relentless use of food & medicine as weapons of war, September 2000...    "the intentional withholding of medicine and medical supplies from LTTE controlled areas  is a clear violation of common Article 3 and is a war crime." Professor Jordan J. Paust July 2000 British Members of European Parliament strongly criticise Sri Lanka's human rights record ...   "The MEPs, Richard Howitt and Robert Evans, say the government has not done enough to protect civilians caught up in the war against Tamil Tiger rebels and is covering up their suffering. The men accuse the authorities of implementing an oppressive press-censorship policy and of not allowing essential supplies, including baby food and medicine, to be distributed in areas controlled by the Tamil Tigers..." June 2000 More than five hundred civilian casualties due to bombing and shelling by Sri Lankan security forces says Mannar Bishop   "I am given to understand that the attitude of the armed forces is that " it is better to kill the people than allow them to go into the LTTE controlled areas". " May 2000 UNHCR says Sri Lanka ignored ceasefire notice to allow Tamil civilians to leave conflict zone... April 2000 Humanitarian Law Project accuses Sri Lanka of hostage taking ...   "International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project requests that the Commission take immediate steps to secure the release of 5114 Tamil women, children and elderly who are trapped in St. Mary’s Church and school at Kilali near the Sri Lankan Army’s (the SLA) Elephant Pass military base. ..We fear that the SLA is trying to use them as human shields. We consider this action by the SLA to be "hostage-taking" under the Geneva Conventions and hence a serious violation of humanitarian law. If they are killed in the course of the armed conflict, the SLA would be the chargeable party based on its refusal to let them flee..." September 1999 International Red Cross deplores Sri Lanka bombing of Tamil civilian centres.   "..Twenty one Tamil civilians were killed and 35 wounded when the air force carried out a bombing raid in northeastern Sri Lanka, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Thursday (16 September 1999). Fifteen civilians, including women and children, died during the attack while another six died in hospital in the district of Mullaitivu on Wednesday, an ICRC spokesman in Colombo said. He said the bombs fell just two kilometres away from the ICRC office in the district of Mullaitivu. "We can confirm that 21 civilians were killed consequent to the air strike at Manthuvil junction," the spokesman said. "The ICRC deplores the fact that the air strikes were carried out in a civilian area."   July 1999 Sinhala Army sacks Tamil village in Mannar... June 1999 Heavy army shelling causes humanitarian crisis in the Vanni... April 1999 Indiscriminate shelling of Tamil villages continues...   In a letter to President Chandrika, Batticaloa MP Joseph Pararajasingham says, "despite many written complaints to her, indiscriminate shelling of populated areas continues. According to reports, 75 civilians were killed and over 185 were injured in 1998 in security force attacks." December 1998 Sri Lanka army uses Tamil villagers as forced labour... November 1998 Sri Lanka uses Tamils as human shields   "Sri Lanka is using civilians as a human shield for transporting troops and materials to and from the war zone, a Tamil parliamentarian alleged ... The government thinks security personnel may have more cover if they are transported with civilians in the same ship or aircraft. " October 1998 Cuts in food, fuel & medicine result in humanitarian crisis... July 1998 Sri Lanka uses food and medicine as weapons of war... June 1998 Food Aid to Tamil areas slashed says British Refugee Council 9 June 1998 Sri Lanka bombs Tamil villages under cover of new Press censorship    "On 9 June, under cover of the press censorship, Sri Lanka launched a calculated bombing raid on Tamil villages in the Mullaitivu District... The attack launched by Sri Lanka follows an earlier pattern. On 22 September 1996, the Sri Lanka airforce bombed the Nagar Kovil school within hours of Sri Lanka imposing a Press Censorship. The British Refugee Council, Sri Lanka Monitor commented on that occasion: "Hours after the Sri Lanka government imposed military censorship on press reporting ... on 21 September, aircraft bombed a Jaffna school yard crammed with 750 children on their lunch break, killing 34 and seriously injuring over 150 others"  May 1998 Collective Penalties & Systematic State Terrorism are War Crimes May 1998 Denial of Food & Medicine - a War Crime says Professor Paust   "Are the denial of adequate and available food and the denial of adequate and available medicine and medical supplies violations of human rights law? This Essay demonstrates that such denials are not only violations, but are quite serious violations of basic human rights. Such denials of food or medicine and medical supplies tend to be among the most egregious types of human rights violations, since those who can least afford to suffer tend to be victims... As the authoritative commentary by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC} adds, the duty to respect and protect the wounded and sick is "a categorical imperative which cannot be restricted.  Therefore, the intentional withholding of medicine and medical supplies from LTTE controlled areas, as recognised by the State Department, is a clear violation of common Article 3 and a war crime. " April 1998 Sri Lanka restricts food and medicine to Tamil villages  - April 1998 November 1997 Sri Lanka airforce bombs Pooneryn & kills Tamils November 1997 Sinhala Army runs forced labour camp for Tamils July 1997 '80% of houses in Jaffna damaged' - British Refugee Council Report   "..Military operations have damaged 80% of the 176,300 houses in the peninsula. Over 17,000 houses have been completely destroyed.... A number of houses and schools are occupied by the Army. People complain that a large number of trees, including coconut and palmyrah trees providing livelihood, are being cut down for military use..." June 1997 Sri Lanka army shells refugee camp in Batticaloa... February 1997 Tamil cultivable lands and crops destroyed by Sri Lanka troops February 1997 Mass exodus as Tamil villages shelled again - Operation Edibala    "Another humanitarian crisis is looming as Sri Lankan forces shell and aerial-bomb Tamil border villages on the edges of Vavuniya and Mannar districts in their latest offensive. Heavy artillery fire is raining down on a number of villages causing civilians to flee in massive waves.." February 1997 Indiscriminate artillery shelling of Tamil villages: September 1996 - February 1997 June 1996 Sri Lanka uses food and medicine as weapons of war 28 April 1996 "Sri Lanka is trying to kill or terrorise as many Tamil people as possible" - Professor Margaret Trawick    " I have been struggling in my mind against the conclusion that the SL government is trying to kill or terrorize as many Tamil people as possible; that the government is trying to keep the conditions of the war unreported internationally, because if those conditions were reported, the actions of the military would be perceived as so deplorable that foreign nations would have no choice but to condemn them. And this would be embarrassing to everybody.  But it seems now that no other conclusion is possible... " April 1996 Sri Lanka gunships attack Tamil civilians fleeing arrival of  Sinhala Sri Lankan Army April 1996 Sri Lanka Kfir jets kill Tamil civilians in Jaffna peninsula...   "When we first head the noise of the jets, we ran into the air-raid shelters which had been dug into the ground. Two bombs exploded near our bunker. I fainted. When I regained consciousness, I found my father had had his head blown off. My sister's body had been torn apart and pieces of her child were near by. " March 1996 Helicopter gunships attack and kill Tamil civilians in the East   "Seventeen Tamil civilians, mostly children and the aged were killed by Sri Lanka helicopter gunships on 16 March 1996 in the village of Nachchikuda in the East. About sixty were seriously injured..."</blockquote>

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