TAMIL DIASPORA OF UNITED KINGDOM
Thirst of Tigers is always the mother land Eelam
ABOUT US
I'm a young guy who relocated my self from Sri Lankan in 2010 after a long struggle that seriously effect my life. The war did end in 2009, with the Sri lankan government - dominated by the Sinhalese majority - defeating the Tamil Tigers. ... Nearly a decade on from the end of the war, Sri Lankan filmmakers are tentatively re-examining the 26-year conflict, which killed more than 100,000 people.
The conflict is estimated to have killed more than 100,000 people. It divided Sri Lanka along ethnic lines - pitting the majority Buddhist Sinhalese-dominated government against the rebels , who fought for a state for minority Tamil civilians and the different organization. About 20,000 people, mostly Tamils, are thought to be missing and many of them were killed during those days.
The "Tamil Centre for Human Rights" recorded that from 1983 to 2004, 47,556 Tamil civilians were murdered by both the Sri Lankan government and IPKF forces. ... The Sri Lankan government revealed that 9,000 people were killed in the final months of the war, but it did not differentiate between LTTE cadres and civilians.
A Brutal Conflict Ended, But Questions Remain without a full stop
The government’s victory, however, had come at the cost of serious violations of the laws of war by both sides. During the conflict the LTTE committed sectarian massacres, political assassinations and suicide bombings, widely deployed child soldiers, and executed detainees.
The Sri Lankan military committed countless arbitrary detentions, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances. Abuses in the last stages of the fighting were shockingly egregious. The army indiscriminately shelled civilians used as human shields by the LTTE.
Trophy videos emerged of summary executions of prisoners, and of soldiers jeering over the bodies of women combatants whom they had stripped, possibly raped, and murdered.
This ending is not the real end.
Some families of the forcibly disappeared have been holding outdoor vigils continuously for over a year seeking answers, despite declarations from the president and prime minister that all the missing are dead.
In 2015 the government responded to intense pressure from victim communities and local activists by pledging to set up transitional justice mechanisms.
While progress has been slow, the Office of Missing Persons has finally begun hearings. The goal now should be to ensure answers, accountability, and reparations. For families of the disappeared, it has been too many long years of waiting.
