Petition to open UN investigations against Sri Lanka
Petition to open UN investigations against Sri Lanka
The reason of this Petition Campaign
Sri Lanka has committed war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity on the Tamils for decades. Every Sri Lankan government since 1948 has been carrying out campaigns of terror against the Tamil civilians in the island of Sri Lanka. Between December 2008 and May 2009, the present government used banned-weapons and non-conventional arms against the Tamils and destroyed hospitals, schools and killed tens of thousands of innocent people. The number of human losses is still a question mark. Between October 2008 and May 2009 more than 140,000 Tamil civilians have disappeared according to government numbers. We as the Tamil Diaspora and the international community, who respect human rights, fear that many Tamil lives were lost during the aggressive military offense by the government in the first few months of 2009.
This action is coordinated by
The mission is to urge the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court to investigate War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity committed by Sri Lankan government against the Tamils.
Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor
Information and Evidence Unit
Office of the Prosecutor
Post Office Box 19519
2500 CM The Hague
The Netherlands
Email: otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int
Phone: Tel. + 31 (0)70 515 851
As citizens of the world, we strongly condemn Sri Lanka on War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity committed against the Tamil people living in the island of Sri Lanka. We identified that Sri Lanka has committed and is still continuing to commit genocide against the Tamil people. As the occupying power of Tamil homelands, Sri Lanka has been violating its obligation to protect the Tamil inhabitants in the occupied areas. The State of Sri Lanka has also violated the Geneva Conventions and the Statute laid out in Article 8 of the International Criminal Court by deliberately targeting civilians and humanitarian aid workers by halting the full delivery of aid to the people, and by the total destruction of the infrastructure in the Tamil regions.
We ask the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court to conduct an immediate investigation into all these reports and to bring those responsible to justice. We also ask the ICC to join the world in condemning these brutal and inhumane attacks on Tamil civilian population in the island of Sri Lanka.
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