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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10414636" data-attributes="member: 92282">A United States Federal Court has issued summons on President Mahinda  Rajapaksa in connection with three civil cases filed under the Hague  Convention claiming monetary damages under US Torture Victims Protection  Act (TVPA) over alleged extra-judicial killings, the Justice Ministry  sources said.       Sources said the government was not overly ruffled by this decision, and would not respond to it.        The civil cases against the Sri Lankan President were filed in  Washington DC and the petitioners were seeking US$30 million as damages  on six counts of violating the TVPA.       The summons on the President have been served on the Justice Ministry  Secretary who is the Sri Lankan Central Authority in accordance with the  provisions of The Hague Convention, to which the US and Sri Lanka are  signatories.       The three cases were filed by the relatives of student Ragihar  Manoharan, Premas Anandarajah, a humanitarian aid worker for Action  against Hunger and T. Thavaraja. The petitioners claimed the students  were victims of the extra judicial killings in Sri Lanka. They have  cited President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is the Commander–in-Chief of Sri  Lankan armed forces as the respondent.       The petitioners have alleged multiple violations of the TVPA under Sri  Lankan President Rajapaksa’s command responsibility for the  extrajudicial killing of plaintiff Dr. Kasippillai Manoharan’s son  Ragihar, plaintiff Kalaiselvi Lavan’s husband Premas Anandarajah, and  four members of the Thevarajah family, who were relatives of plaintiff  Jeyakumar Aiyathurai.Ragihar was one of the five students allegedly  killed in January 2006 while Anandarajah was one of the 17 Action  Against Hunger (ACF) staff members who were killed during the war in the  East in June 2006. Jeyakumar's relatives were allegedly killed by an  exploding shell that landed inside the safety bunker -- situated around  the No Fire Zone demarcated by the government during the last phases of  the war -- where the family was hiding from the artillery attacks by the  Sri Lankan Army.       Under International Law, cases can be filed on the offences under war  crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and waging war against  countries without reasonable cause.       The petitioners will argue the cases on the basis that universal  jurisdiction under international law should also be recognized in civil  suits founded on the Torture Victims Protection Act outlining torture or  extrajudicial killings.Dailymirror</blockquote>

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