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Friday, April 4, 2014
On Sri Lanka's 'War Criminals' By An Officially Labelled 'Terrorist'
Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah
Rajapaksas on Edge as UNHRC Votes to “Unmask” War Criminals Through International Probe
Sri Lanka War Crimes Investigation part 3
“Let the UN Unmask the Criminals of Sri Lanka’s War”
was a plea made by Louise Arbour, the former UN Human Rights High
Commissioner and the President of International Crisis Group. Her
concern and rightly so was the lack of accountability, an omission that
needed to be rectified she said:
True to form the UNHRC has voted for an international probe that could
lead to suspects being named and prosecuted, a prospect that has put the
Rajapaksas on edge.
On edge they’re and the signs of desperation are all there to see as the
Rajapaksa government moves to proscribe as foreign terrorist
organisations all Diaspora groups involved in campaigning for an
international war crimes probe.
The word “Terrorism”
for the Rajapaksas has lost its meaning, which is by one definition,
“the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or
an organized group against people or property with the intention of
intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological
or political reasons.”
It is plain to any fool that none of the organisations listed are
involved in violence or have used the threat of violence, period. The
Rajapaksas’ move blends well with what Bruce Hoffman noted:
“terrorism is a pejorative term. It is a word with intrinsically negative connotations that is generally applied to one’s enemies and opponents, or to those with whom one disagrees …Hence the decision to call someone or label some organization ‘terrorist’ becomes almost unavoidably subjective, depending largely on whether one …opposes the person/group/cause concerned.”
In other words it is a vindictive exercise directed at the Tamil Diaspora for
winning the hard fight for an international investigation and still
holding on to achieving a just political solution in the NorthEast.
