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Genocide In Sri Lanka 

The world watched as the Government of Sri Lanka systematically attacked thousands of ethnic Tamils early in 2009. The Sri Lanka genocide in 2009 is arguably the worst war crime story since the Nazi genocide during World War II.

Sri Lanka Genocide in Tamil Eelam – A Historical Perspective:
 As many as 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the Sri Lankan Government unleashed a military offensive involving ground and aerial assaults, against Tamil combatants and civilians alike. However, the Sri Lanka genocide did not start there; nor did it culminate on the Tamil killing fields. To understand the Sri Lanka genocide in 2009, one has to look back at the more than 60 years of systematic discrimination and violence sponsored by a mono-ethnic Sinhalese nationalist government has illustrated the intent of Sri Lanka to eliminate its Tamil-speaking Hindu, Christian, and Muslim population.

Sri Lanka Genocide in Tamil Eelam – Capitalizing on the ‘War on Terror’ Campaign
Capitalizing on the Bush administration’s language of ‘War on Terror,’ the Government of Sri Lanka justified its genocide & mass killings of innocent Tamils civilians as a means of defeating terrorism. The Sri Lanka genocide was characterized by indiscriminate bombings of schools, hospitals, and ’safe zones‘ and conclusively proved that this was not merely an attempt to defeat terrorism; this genocide was a means of destroying a rich culture, a classic language, and a native people.

Sri Lanka Genocide in Tamil Eelam – The Harsh Reality
 As the ‘victory’ of the war was being celebrated by the Government of Sri Lanka, a quarter of a million Tamil people were illegally herded into internment camps. There they were kept under heavy military supervision and denied full access to their families, humanitarian aid, journalists, and human rights monitors. There were allegations of rapes and murders committed by the armed security forces guarding the camps. Sexual violence, demonstrated by Sri Lanka’s systematic use of rape as a weapon of war, has long been a feature of Sri Lanka’s genocide and is a clear attempt to destroy the foundation of Tamil society.

The meaning and classification of genocide is subject to intense debate – and often lives are lost in the meantime. Determining which conflicts are genocide and which are not; identifying when individual acts of repression turn into a concerted campaign to exterminate a people; these are highly politicized discussions. Often the question is of the scale and speed of the crimes – when the world sees tens of thousands killed in one day, they take notice. But when the killings occur over months or even decades, they often pass with little note. Genocide, however, is not a question of scale – it is a question of intent.

Sri Lanka Genocide in Tamil Eelam – The Intent is Clear
 The Government of Sri Lanka showed its intent when it declared an area a “safe zone”, shepherded civilians into it, and then proceed to shell the area.
They showed their intent when they ordered all international NGO’s out of a region when civilians desperately need their help.
They showed their intent when they disappeared their critics, silencing them forever.
They showed their intent when journalists are suppressed, when orphanges are bombed, when aid workers are killed and when hospitals are shelled.

The Government of Sri Lanka has made its genocidal intent clear.


http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields/4od#3534106

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields/4od#3321899

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http://www.whitevanstories.com/

http://www.whitevanstories.com/blog/uk-based-musician-andi-dedicates-track-to-white-van-stories/

http://www.tamilsolidarity.org/?p=3903

http://www.amnesty.org/campaigns/security-with-human-rights/tell-the-truth

http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/33166/









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Fifty years after China's invasion, Beijing is intensifying its control over Tibet and its approximately six million Tibetans.

Tibetans are facing increasing marginalisation as their economy becomes integrated with China and its population of 1.3 billion. They are losing out under the 'Western development' strategy, a massive campaign launched in 1999 to improve infrastructure in China's thinly-populated West, including Tibetan areas of China. The Chinese Government has constructed a railway across the Tibetan plateau leading to Tibet's capital, Lhasa, which will increase the numbers of Chinese commercial migrants into Tibet, resulting in the further militarisation of the region and accelerating the exploitation of Tibet's natural and mineral resources.

China's fast track economic policies in Tibet, based on a political agenda, are directly linked to the repression of the Tibetan people. They are the most serious modern threat to the survival of Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity.

The Chinese government claims that it is pouring money into health and education to benefit Tibetans. The reality is that the majority of Tibetans who live in rural areas do not have access to adequate or affordable health care and are still suffering from easily treatable conditions such as malnutrition, diarrhea, pneumonia, or even the plague.

Education facilities and opportunities for the Tibetan children are minimal and many Tibetan parents cannot afford schooling. Therefor they send their children into exile to study at Tibetan schools in India. Often education which is available in Tibet,suppresses Tibetan religious or linguistic identity.

RELIGION & CULTURE

Approximately 6,000 monasteries, nunneries and temples, and their contents, were partially or fully destroyed in the period of the Chinese invasion and during the Cultural Revolution.

The repression of Tibet's culture and religion continues today. Tibetan Buddhism is an integral element of Tibetan national identity, and measurements used to implement the religious policies of the Chinese Government have been harsh.

China, which promotes Atheism, aims to undermine the Dalai Lama's influence in Tibet and maintains strict control over monasteries and nunneries. Political campaigns or "patriotic re-education" require forced denunciations of the Dalai Lama, and there are restrictions on religious pilgrimages. Obtaining a religious education remains extremely difficult or impossible in Tibet.

Tibet's religious heritage has made a profound impact worldwide and has unique contemporary relevance. The Dalai Lama has pioneered a dialogue with scientists on human consciousness, drawing on ancient Buddhist texts, and Tibetan Buddhist Lamas teach across the globe.

The tradition of peaceful co-existence in pre-occupied Tibet among Tibetan Buddhists and Muslims, serves as a model of religious tolerance, and the Dalai Lama's efforts to promote interfaith understanding continues to this day.

Over the past 50 years, Tibetans have expressed their resistance to Chinese rule through the assertion of their cultural and religious identity. Following the Cultural Revolution, they rebuilt monasteries and temples in Tibetan communities. Today, Tibetans worship at secret shrines to the Dalai Lama, express their dissent through pop music or poetry and protect their Tibetan identity by keeping their language and traditions alive.


ENVIRONMENT

With an average elevation of 14,000 feet, Tibet is the highest country on earth. Tibet's fragile high-altitude environment is increasingly endangered by China's exploitative policies.

This matters to the rest of Asia and the world. Five of Asia's great rivers have their headwaters in Tibet and nearly half the world's population lives downstream. Deforestation in Tibet has already been linked to severe floods in the lower reaches of the Yangtze in China.

The high plains, forests and mountains of Tibet are home to rare and endangered wildlife such as the snow leopard, blue sheep and Tibetan antelope (chiru). Due to extensive resource extraction, poaching and unsustainable development, these ecosystems and many of their species are now endangered.

The forced settlement of nomads is wiping out a unique way of life, increasing poverty and contributing to grassland degradation.

POLITICAL REPRESSION

The Chinese government severely restricts the rights of Tibetans to exercise human rights as provided in the Chinese constitution, including the freedoms of speech, press, association, and religion.Reading an autobiography of the Dalai Lama or talking about freedom to friends in Tibet can be classified as 'endangering state security'.

Tibetan political prisoners endure harsh prison conditions, including torture, deprivation of food and sleep, and long periods in isolation cells.

"When they were torturing us it was literally as if they were trying to kill us. Prison guards would hit and beat with all their strength. Once after we all shouted 'Long live the Dalai Lama' they started to kick and beat us so much that the ground was covered in blood."

Ngawang Sangdrol, 28, paroled in 2002 after 11 years in prison for peaceful protests


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Jiddu Krishnamurti.

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