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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Law Student Accuses Sri Lankan Leaders of War Crimes
Laurel Bowman | Washington April 13, 2011
As wars break out and end, and refugees flee across international borders, victims often find themselves living alongside their alleged tormentors in foreign and frequently Western nations. Those active and educated in the victim diaspora are looking to legal systems in their new countries to redress alleged war crimes. In the U.S. state of Maryland, a first-year law student of Tamil heritage accuses the brother of Sri Lanka's president and a former army general of war crimes against minority Tamils in Sri Lanka.
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As wars break out and end, and refugees flee across international borders, victims often find themselves living alongside their alleged tormentors in foreign and frequently Western nations. Those active and educated in the victim diaspora are looking to legal systems in their new countries to redress alleged war crimes. In the U.S. state of Maryland, a first-year law student of Tamil heritage accuses the brother of Sri Lanka's president and a former army general of war crimes against minority Tamils in Sri Lanka. \
It’s an average day in contracts class at the University of Baltimore School of Law in Maryland.
The professor poses hypothetical questions as students check e-mail. But Rajeev Sreetharan is not distracted. He’s on a mission to bring what he calls justice to the Tamils of Sri Lanka through the legal systems of the West.
"When you look at the history of transitional justice from Nuremberg to Darfur, it’s only a select number of people who have gotten justice and who have been given the opportunity for their suffering to be written in history," said Rajeev Sreetharan.
It’s an average day in contracts class at the University of Baltimore School of Law in Maryland.
The professor poses hypothetical questions as students check e-mail. But Rajeev Sreetharan is not distracted. He’s on a mission to bring what he calls justice to the Tamils of Sri Lanka through the legal systems of the West.
"When you look at the history of transitional justice from Nuremberg to Darfur, it’s only a select number of people who have gotten justice and who have been given the opportunity for their suffering to be written in history," said Rajeev Sreetharan.
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