Eezham Tamils Learning lessons from

Srebrenica

[TamilNet, Friday, 10 July 2015, 06:28 GMT]

Eezham Tamils, especially their politicians and activists, should
learn the lesson from Srebrenica that an international investigation
on Sri Lanka doesnt merely mean investigating the island at an
international level, but investigating the international elements
that led to the plight of the island. New researches clearly reveal
that the USA and UK knew about the genocide at Srebrenica well
ahead of it, but decided to allow it because of a premeditated policy
decision. Unchecked, they did it again to Eezham Tamils 14 years
later, and the difference is that they still do nothing about the
occupying genocidal military, continued genocide, structural
genocide and annihilation of the nation of Eezham Tamils, may be

because of another premeditated, original policy, commented Tamil

activists for alternative politics in the island.
In the case of Srebrenica, the US Asst. Secretary of State for Intelligence,
Toby Gati, was cited by The Guardian last week for saying, Ethnic
cleansing was not a priority of our policy. When you make an original
decision you are not going to respond, then Im sorry, these things are
going to happen.
This repeatedly pre-meditated policy practice, terrorising nations without
State to the extent of genocide, is noticeably enacted upon peoples of nonWest milieu, prompting one to question what has that directed the original
decision.
In the case of Eezham Tamils, such a policy was joined by New Delhi too,
bringing South Asia and neighbourhood also under the dangerous
paradigm.
This is why we need an international investigation on the genocide of
Eezham Tamils, not only for the liberation of them but also for humanity to
put a stop on the repeated practice of international terrorism through
coalitions and proxies in the name of liberal democracy and global
monopoly of a deceptive moral high-ground.
This is also why it is important to Eezham Tamils as well as humanity that
planted politicians like Mr Sumanthiran should not be allowed to use their
granted electoral victory under a TNA seat in the forthcoming elections to
prove support of Tamils for domestic investigation hoodwink. There is
nothing personal against Mr Sumanthiran.

Last week, a joint open letter by 9 international NGOs of UN advisory

status, addressed to the ambassadors of the UN Human Rights Council
member states, told them that consent from the affected people is needed
in modelling any investigation on the island. The international NGOs,
considering the cause of humanity, should rise above the trap that may
come from local manipulation by the ultimate culprits.
The NPC chief minister, Mr Wigneswaran, who has also been planted, has at
least realised the importance of the edification of the original decision, in
his call for international investigation on genocide.
Speaking at the FeTNA convention in the USA, he defended the call for
genocide investigation and also hinted at the 6th Amendment of the SL
constitution gagging Tamils from democratically expressing their political
aspirations. But, writing in Congress Blog, a forum for lawmakers and
policy professionals of the USA on Wednesday, he was mildly pleading for
the US role in reform, accountability, devolution, demilitarisation and
development.
Even a child will know that the formula will not work under a congenitally
genocidal State in the island. But Wigneswaran will need the force for the
edification of the original decision of the USA to come from the
mobilisation of the concerned people and from the real international
community of humanity.
Eezham Tamils should be prepared to deploy all their resources in an
alternative international investigation on the role of the ultimate culprits in
their genocide, if the UN investigation is not materialising.

This is essential for the world to know; the Sinhala nation in the south of
the island to know; the posterity of Tamils to firmly imprint in the memory
of their long civilisation and above all to set the historiography right,
without which no meaningful future struggle is possible.
After 20 years, the elements that premeditated a policy to allow the
genocide in East Bosnia will rush to Srebrenica to commemorate it this
weekend. But the Eezham Tamils of a similar plight with larger dimensions
are left to themselves even to internationally prove the genocide and ongoing genocide, as the International Crisis Group (ICG) wished them to
undertake sometimes back.
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The media in the West was vigorous in the last few days over the
remembrance of Srebrenica. After the experience at Srebrenica, the socalled international media would have very well known what was actually
taking place in the case of Eezham Tamils and what the USA and the UK
were up to. But they only contributed to the premeditated decision of
allowing the genocide without witnesses. The Indian national media was
the worst of the lot.
Last week, The Guardian of the UK came out with a feature, How Britain
and the US decided to abandon Srebrenica to its fate, that was doing the
post-mortem with new evidences.
Some of the facts and observations brought out by the feature are must to
be read by Eezham Tamils to realize how their plight was largely similar.

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Excerpts from The Guardian feature:
There will be speeches and tributes at the towns memorial site, Potocari,
but the least likely homily would be one that answered the question: how
did Srebrenica happen? Why were Bosnian Serb death squads able,
unfettered, to murder more than 8,000 men and boys in a few days, under
the noses of United Nations troops legally bound to protect the victims?
Who delivered the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica to the death
squads, and why?
Now a survey of the mass of evidence reveals that the fall of Srebrenica
formed part of a policy by the three great powers Britain, France and
the US and by the UN leadership, in pursuit of peace at any price.
Until now, it has always been asserted that the so-called endgame
strategy that forged a peace settlement for and postwar map of Bosnia
followed the reality on the ground after the fall, and ceding, of
Srebrenica. What can now be revealed is that the endgame preceded that
fall, and was as it turned out conditional upon it.
The UN duly proclaimed Srebrenica as one of six safe areas to be
defended by the United Nations Protection Force (our emphasis).
All the while, Karadics hand was eagerly clasped beneath the chandeliers
of London and Geneva; diplomats also courted the Serbian president,
Slobodan Miloevic, while Mladic dined and exchanged gifts with the UNs
military commanders, soldier to soldier, as they ineffectively sought his

cooperation.
A CIA memo, since declassified, described the eastern safe areas as fish
bones in the throat of the Serbs.
[In the case of the Eezham Tamils what was openly known is the UK
representative at the UN Security Council, Sir John Sawers, telling that the
LTTE was long blighting the Sri Lankan government]
On 2 June, Mladic ordered a destruction of the Muslim forces in these
enclaves. Voorhoeve insists that western leaders knew of this order, but
that he and his troops were kept in the dark.
The intelligence services of at least two of the five permanent members of
the UN security council knew already at the beginning of June 1995 a
month and a half before the attack that the Serbs intended to capture, in
the coming weeks, the three Eastern enclaves meaning Srebrenica, epa
and Gorade, Voorhoeve says. These two big countries had advance
knowledge of the Serbian battle plans and did not share it with the
Netherlands.
The Observer has independently verified this and the two countries were
the US and the UK.
The populace chose to remain, wrongly believing the world would comply
with legally binding obligations to protect them.
The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the
killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.

According to declassified US cables details of the killings reached western

intelligence and decision makers soon after they began on 13 July; The CIA
operatives watched almost live at a satellite post in Vienna. From that
day, spy planes caught what was happening. Standing men held by armed
guard. Later pictures show them lying in the fields, dead, according to one
cable.
All US partners were immediately informed. Yet the slaughter was allowed
to run its course, no attempt made to deter the killers, or to locate the men
and boys, let alone rescue them.
Not a single politician, diplomat or senior soldier saw fit to resign over the
betrayal of Srebrenica. It will be interesting to see if anything approaching
an apology let alone a reckoning by Britain, America or France is
spoken next weekend. Most of those involved were promoted or moved on
to lucrative positions.
The former British foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, who had chastised
attempts at intervention to help Bosnia, along with Neville-Jones, famously
beat a path to Belgrade to engage Miloevic just before he was indicted
for genocide on behalf of the NatWest markets bank.
[In the case of Eezham Tamils, the Hillary Clinton emails released by the
US State Department on June 30, reveal to us that, Burns Strider, a former
senior advisor to US Secretary of State Ms Hillary Clinton in 2009, stated
the following to her: My take is that the people on the ground both with
World Bank and IMF believe the Tigers need to be completely defeated and
any collateral damage inflicted on private people by SL govt in process is

ok... Source: UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-201420439 Doc No. C05758456 Date: 06/30/2015]
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[There are revelations on the role played by the Japanese diplomat Yasushi
Akashi as the UNs special envoy to the Balkans, which should be of special
interest to Eezham Tamils, especially to those who consider him a wise
man whom Tamils had failed to listen. Akashi seems to be a professional in
the game that after Srebrenica he found re-deployment in the genocidal
war against Eezham Tamils]
The Guardian revelations on Akashi in the Balkans:
Smith, Janvier and the UNs special envoy to the Balkans, the Japanese
diplomat Yasushi Akashi, met on 9 June in Split, where Janvier pushed for
ceding the enclaves.
Also on 8 July, Akashi and generals Smith and Janvier met at UN
headquarters in Geneva. Smith was told to return to his holiday on the
Croatian island of Korcula while Akashi, the only man in the Balkans with
authority to order air strikes, went to Dubrovnik for a two-day break.
The UNs envoy, Akashi, sent a cable: The Bosnian Serb army is likely to
separate the military-age men from the rest of the population, an
eventuality about which Unprofor will be able to do very little.
On 15 July, Bildt met Mladic again and Miloevic for lunch with Akashi
and Smith. Only Smith raised the issue of information on mass killing and
rape and threatened force if UN forces are attacked. But all the group

got in return was an assurance that Dutch soldiers would be free to leave
on 21 July, with their equipment and the 30 hostages, and with that the
delegation left.
The reaction of Akashi to the killing, as it began on 13 July, was to assure
that the UN should not fear an international outcry as at no time have
Unprofor drivers or vehicles assisted in the evacuation.

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