Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Should Sri Lankan leaders have to appear before a war crimes tribunal at the Hague ?
The Sri Lankan Tamils issue will continue to be a key plank in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
MDMK chief Vaiko went with traders union leader Vellaiyan and Thyagu of the Tamil Nationalist Freedom Movement. While Vaiko was trying to speak to the students who disembarked from the train, they started shouting slogans asking him to leave. “Politician leave, vote-picker leave,” arose slogans as students’ temper rose.
According to them, the opportunistic politics pursued by politicians were responsible for the current state of affairs in Sri Lanka, hence they were not needed for any movement to save Eelam Tamils.
Obviously, too, Tamils have protested to the US White House and yesterday at Westminster Bridge, where some were injured by police, again presumably an attempt by police to cover up for corrupt politicians on all sides.
IMO: My wife's mother tongue is Tamil, but what goes on in Sri Lanka ? We do not know, and the free Sri Lankan press has been gagged by Sinhalese. Reports of genocide and chemical warfare by the Sinhalese Sri Lankan government suggest that the leaders of Sri Lanka should face trials for their war crimes at the Hague. Examples here and here.
MDMK chief Vaiko went with traders union leader Vellaiyan and Thyagu of the Tamil Nationalist Freedom Movement. While Vaiko was trying to speak to the students who disembarked from the train, they started shouting slogans asking him to leave. “Politician leave, vote-picker leave,” arose slogans as students’ temper rose.
According to them, the opportunistic politics pursued by politicians were responsible for the current state of affairs in Sri Lanka, hence they were not needed for any movement to save Eelam Tamils.
Obviously, too, Tamils have protested to the US White House and yesterday at Westminster Bridge, where some were injured by police, again presumably an attempt by police to cover up for corrupt politicians on all sides.
IMO: My wife's mother tongue is Tamil, but what goes on in Sri Lanka ? We do not know, and the free Sri Lankan press has been gagged by Sinhalese. Reports of genocide and chemical warfare by the Sinhalese Sri Lankan government suggest that the leaders of Sri Lanka should face trials for their war crimes at the Hague. Examples here and here.
# posted by uv : 3:38 AM
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