Uncovering Sri Lanka's war crimes

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Source: Guardian UK

Despite verbal acrobatics reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984, Sri Lankan officials have been unable to dismiss a shocking mobile phone video from last January purportedly showing Sri Lankan soldiers summarily executing naked and bound captives. The government has consistently claimed the video is fake, without providing any evidence that the gruesome scene was staged or the footage tampered with.

Now, the top United Nations envoy responsible for investigating extralegal executions around the world has added his voice to those believing the tape to be genuine. After commissioning three experts on forensic pathology, video analysis and firearms to review the tape, the envoy, Philip Alston, told the BBC, "You cannot fake the precise sort of reaction which the human body makes when shot at close range by such a weapon."



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/21/sri-lanka-war-crimes-investigation

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These war crimes were caught on video and should be investigated.

[Vehl]

1. good one!

These war crimes were caught on video and should be investigated.

The government is run by the very same people who stand to lose if the investigation is carried out. So its a foregone conclusion that there will be no internal investigation...or one that is not a hogwash.
Thus the only way to do this is through international pressure.


The best way we individuals can put pressure on the government of lanka is to boycott its products.We stopped buying blood diamonds.....its about time we stop buying blood garments.

A minute long video on why we should.
http://vimeo.com/8576206



The site
http://www.boycottsrilanka.com/




Ps: for more info on this topic, pls check out HRW and AI sites on reports regarding lanka.

[Flaneur]

2. To the Hague with them, and take Bush and Cheney, too.

[Vehl]

3. yep

I for one has no qualms about that.

[Wizard777]

4. So they hold an inquiry to determine where they went wrong.

But the inquiry should produce no prosecutions. That seems to be how atrocities are handled these days. Horrid violations of Human Rights is nothing to be getting prosecutorial over. :banghead: Until that damned wall falls!