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Eelam Tamils protest outdoors United Nations whereas UN Human Rights Council session is debating the wording of a 6-page decision that particulars continued human rights issues over Sri Lanka and highlights the lack of tangible progress. Image courtesy Tamil
UNHRC 51st session: Failure of International Legal Protection of Tamil Rights in Sri Lanka During and After the Armed Conflict
FGTO Urges UNHRC 51st Session’s Resolution to Call on the UN Security Council to Refer Sri Lanka’s Crimes to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor
— Federation of Global Tamil Organizations (FGTO)
NEW YORK, NY, USA, September 20, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Federation of Global Tamil Organizations (FGTO) launched an announcement: “If the UNHRC 51st Session’s Resolution fails to include ICC referral, the FGTO considers the resolution a disappointment for the Tamil people, and a denial of justice. Major segments of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka, human rights groups worldwide, and the Tamil Diaspora have continuously pressed the international community and the UNHRC to refer Sri Lankan personnel to the ICC for crimes of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”
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The Federation of Global Tamil Organizations (FGTO) consists of 9 distinguished Tamil organizations. We anticipate that the UNHRC’s 51st session will go a decision calling on the UN Security Council to refer the crimes of Sri Lankan personnel, towards the Tamil individuals, to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This UNHRC decision ought to cite Article 13 of the Rome Statute, and Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. This permits the Security Council to refer a state of affairs the place battle crimes, crimes towards humanity, genocide, or aggression seem to have been dedicated to the Prosecutor of the ICC.
If the decision fails to embrace ICC referral, the FGTO considers the decision a disappointment for the Tamil individuals, and a denial of justice. Major segments of the Tamil neighborhood in Sri Lanka, human rights teams worldwide, and the Tamil Diaspora have constantly pressed the worldwide neighborhood and the UNHRC to refer Sri Lankan personnel to the ICC for crimes of genocide, battle crimes, and crimes towards humanity.
The cruelty of the crimes dedicated by Sri Lankan authorities forces in 2009 goes past the creativeness. It reveals excessive hatred in the direction of the Tamils. The UK Channel 4 video documentaries file a few of these atrocities. The UNHRC inner investigation report in 2012 confirmed an absence of will to both cease the genocide or doc the proof. It was not till March 2021 that the UN High Commissioner’s workplace gained the authority to doc proof of Sri Lankan personnel’s felony exercise. The Sri Lankan army had the confidence that they might by no means be prosecuted for his or her crimes, and it has proved true up to now.
The Tamil victims and witnesses have been additional humiliated and their voices have been suppressed by the steady ban on civil liberties, though the battle had ended. The Tamil diaspora suspects that there’s an effort to cowl up Sri Lanka’s crimes by geopolitical powers.
As the UNHRC is unable to implement its personal decision that mandated the Hybrid courtroom in 2015, referring Sri Lankan crimes to the ICC or establishing an ad-hoc worldwide tribunal might be the solely potential choices left to the UNHRC. Tamil Diaspora organizations are decided and can persistently work with worldwide organizations to search justice for the Tamil Genocide.
The Sixth Amendment to the structure of Sri Lanka denies the very primary freedom of expression of the Tamils to advocate for his or her self-determination, and the UNHRC should name for repealing the sixth Amendment in the upcoming Resolution. Self-determination is integral to primary human rights, therefore the UNHRC should guarantee the Tamils have their inalienable rights to train self-determination. The UNHRC should contemplate methods to supply ensures of non-recurrence for the previous violations towards the Tamil individuals together with facilitating an Independence Referendum for the Tamils to train their rights to self-determination.
When the island was given independence in 1948 from the UK, the energy was transferred to the Sinhalese with out the consent of the Tamils, and the Tamils have been by no means given their independence. It was an improper and unfinished decolonization. The Tamil territory continues to be a non-self-governing territory, and Sri Lanka is engaged in taking on lands in Tamil territory for Sinhalese settlements and changing Hindu temples with Buddhist temples with the intent to remodel the entire island right into a mono-Sinhalese Buddhist fundamentalist nation. The Tamils are quick dropping their conventional homeland, and the UNHRC ought to take pressing motion to halt this aggression by Sri Lanka. The correct decolonization process should now be urgently executed utilizing the current UN course of. The urgency is necessitated due to the atrocity crimes dedicated by Sri Lanka, its persevering with aggression towards the Tamils, and the absence of ensures of non-recurrence.
We, due to this fact, name upon the UNHRC for the following actions:
1. Move the case of Sri Lanka to UNSC for referral to the ICC
2. Call Sri Lanka to repeal the sixth Amendment to the structure and restore the Tamils’ freedom of expression
3. Under Agenda 4 appoint a Special Rapporteur to monitor and examine ongoing human rights violations and oppression towards the Tamil Nation.
4. Facilitate an Independence Referendum for the Tamils to train their rights to self-determination
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Present member organizations: Tamil Americans United PAC (TAUPAC), Global Tamil Movement (GTM), Ottawa Tamil Association (OTA), Quebec Tamil Development Association (QTDA), World Tamil Organization (WTO), Tamil Genocide Memorial (TGM), ABC Tamil Oli, Ilankai Thamil Sangam-Florida, Tamil Canadian Centre for Civic Action (TCCCA)
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