TNA To Submit Prisoner Report To UN Human Rights Council
By Dinouk Colombage
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is in the process of preparing a report over the abuse of several Tamil prisoners, and the death of one, in Vavuniya. This report is to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, according to TNA spokesman Suresh Premachandran. Premachandran explained that, “we are preparing a detailed report over the unfortunate death of Ganesan Nimalaruban along with the abuse of several others. This is a serious matter, and one which the international community and the UN must be made aware of.” He said that they hoped to send the report to the UN “as soon as possible, ideally we will have it prepared by the end of next week.”
Earlier the TNA had submitted a report regarding the death and abuse of the Tamil prisoners in the Vavuniya prison to all of the foreign missions in Sri Lanka.
“The foreign missions have all expressed concern over the events, we now want this concern to spread to the UN”, Premachandran said.
Late last month 32 inmates, who were LTTE suspects, took three prison guards hostage in protest over prisoner transfers. The standoff lasted for 19 hours before members of the armed forces were dispatched to bring the situation under control. One prisoner died during the rescue operation to free the prison guards while another is still in a coma. Human rights activists and TNA MPs later accused the prison authorities and the police of exacting revenge on the prisoners by physically harming them both during and after the rescue operation.
Typical TNA politics. These idiots are simply trying to get sympathy from the west to further their cause of Eelam. Get over it, the pony you fools bet on lost. Let the TAMILS of this country get on with their lives.
Should they not first address their complaints to the authorities in Sri Lanka? They are not going to get any justice from the international community. If the prisoner/hostage taker died in the rescue attempt of the prison guards, he only has to blame himself. That is no proof of abuse. In rescue attempts the world over, either some of rescuers, hostages or hostage takers may suffer the loss of their lives. It appears the TNA is out to destroy Sri Lanka’s standing in the world. In most countries sharp shooters take out hostage takers by killing them.
IN SRI LANKA NO COMPLAINTS AGAINST STATE OFFICIALS WILL WORK. IT IS THE SAME IF COMPLAINED TO UN. JUSTICE WILL BE NOT DONE TO THE VICTIMS OR THEIR FAMILIES. COMPLAINING POLITICIANS MAY BENEFIT BY PUBLICITY AND MAKING MONEY.
TNA should not even dream of preparing similar reports on abuse of prisoners in the USA, Australia etc and the death in prisons of afro-americans and aboriginees respectively, as the TNA will need volumes of paper to document such atrocities.
TNA or DOUGLAS DEVANANDA SHOULD HAVE INTERVENED AND REQUESTED THE PRISONERS TO DROP THEIR ACTION. THEY KEPT SILENCE. THE ALLEGED PRISONERS MAY HAVE BEEN IN A MAD STATE FOR BEING IMPRISONED FOR YEARS FOR NOTHING JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE TAMILS. THEY WERE NOT LTTE MEMBERS,BUT ONLY SUSPECTS. SUSPECTS TILL THEY ARE BEING KILLED OR MURDERED.
NO POLITICAL PARTY INCLUDING TNA ARE INTERESTED IN THEIR RELEASE.THEY MAKE BREAD AND BUTTER BY SHOWING THEM TO THE WORLD. POLITICS IS ALWAYS BUSINESS,ART OF MAKING EASY MONEY.