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Between 14 and 16 January 2010 the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal held a Tribunal on Sri Lanka in Dublin, Ireland to investigate allegations that the Sri Lankan armed forces committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during its final phase of the war, and to examine violations of human rights in the aftermath of the war and the factors that ...
Wijikala who was pregnant, her husband, Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon and her child were arrested at 11.00 PM and allegedly tortured in custody. They were allegedly stripped naked and raped by the Sri Lankan security forces. Further, they were tortured to sign documents that claimed they were members of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The Tamil genocide, also known as the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide, or the Eelam Tamil genocide, refers to the various acts of physical violence and cultural destruction committed against the Tamil population in Sri Lanka during the Sinhala – Tamil ethnic conflict beginning in 1956, particularly during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Pictured are displaced persons from the civil war in Sri Lanka. The total economic cost of the 25-year war is estimated at US$200 billion. [353] This is approximately 5 times the GDP of Sri Lanka in 2009. Sri Lanka had spent US$5.5 billion only on Eelam War IV, which saw the end of LTTE.
At least 27 Tamils (including women and children) [4] were killed in the ensuing violence, with hundreds of Tamil homes, shops, hotels, boats and temples being destroyed. [5] [6] [1] These events served as a prelude to the subsequent Black July pogrom that followed the killing of 13 soldiers in 23 July, and triggered the Sri Lankan civil war. [5]
The government of Sri Lanka in 2008 termed it a crime against humanity. [1] A number of independent observers such as University Teachers for Human Rights, a Human Rights organization from Sri Lanka, and western observers such Mr. John Richardson [6] and others [2] [5] [13] [12] maintain that it was a massacre of civilians.
Casualties of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The war was waged for over a quarter of a century, with an estimated 70,000 killed by 2007. [1][2][3] Immediately following the end of war, on 20 May 2009, the UN estimated a total of 80,000–100,000 deaths. [4][5] However, in 2011, referring to the final phase of the war in 2009, the Report of the ...
Mullivaikkal massacre. The Mullivaikkal massacre was the mass killing of tens of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils in 2009 during the closing stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which ended in May 2009 in a tiny strip of land in Mullivaikkal, Mullaitivu. The Sri Lankan government had designated a no-fire zone in Mullivaikkal towards the end of the ...