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Petition against Sri Lanka's human rights violations

Hold the country accountable for its persecution of Tamils

Muthamizh Vendhan | February 24, 2011

People from across the globe are condemning the Human rights violations of Srilankan government. And civilized society is fighting hard to establish the justice to the tamils. Killing of nearly 3,00,000 innocents, war crimes, ongoing slaughter on the journalists, moderates, reformists, artists and having opposition leader behind the bars make the Srilanka as a criminal and a failed state.

LIST OF FEW EVIDENCES:

People's Permanent Tribunal found Srilanka guilty of war crimes and Genocide.

UN's Human Rights Chief is critical of Lankan government Human rights records.

US human rights report accused Lankan rulers for the Human Rights violations.

Here's some evidence of Sri Lankan government's war crimes and genocide.

Grisly Photos Reveal Genocide by Sri Lankan Government Against Tamil People (Discretion advised due to graphic depiction of gore and massacre)

And some more...

1. Sri Lanka is one of the top “red alert” countries at risk for genocide (Genocide Prevention Project)

2. Sri Lanka was voted off United Nations Humans Rights Council in 2008 (Asian Human Rights Council)

3. Sri Lanka has a history of expelling UN and human rights monitors from the country (BBC)

4. Sri Lanka is ranked as having the 2nd highest rate of disappearances in the world (United Nations)

5. Sri Lanka is one of the most dangerous places for journalists (BBC)

6. Tamils treated as second-class citizens in own country: they must carry identification cards(United Nations)

7. Culture of impunity: despite pervasive human rights violations, very few are ever held accountable (International Press Freedom Mission)

8. 130,000 + civilians denied access to freedom of movement in internment camps (Human Rights Watch)

9. 40,000+ civilian casualties just at the end of the war alone (ABC News)

10. Continued restrictions on humanitarian aid in IDP camps(Washington Post)

Please sign the petitions below and circulate among your friends and relatives

If this isn't genocide, then what on earth is

Stop the Genocide and Free the Tamils from Internment Camps (IDP's) in Sri Lanka

Please help us to save existing peoples in IDP camps

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