 Burnt shell of the post event library Several groups have alleged that there have been instances of state terrorism in Sri Lanka. Instances of torture, kidnapping, and extrajudicial execution are said to be common practices of state terror in Sri Lanka, often used to terrorize domestic populations by the state.[1][2] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Victims of state terrorism from Cambodia State terrorism is terrorism that is perpetrated or sponsored by a national government or proxy state. ...
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Torture is defined by the United Nations Convention Against Torture as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he...
Extrajudicial execution and extrajudicial punishment are terms to describe death sentences and other types of punishment, respectively, executed without prior proper judicial procedure. ...
Response to JVP uprisings Most of the victims of state violence during JVP uprisings were civilians from the majority Sinhalese community. During the first JVP uprising, in 1971, over 15,000 civilians were killed by the armed forces. [3] During the second JVP uprising, in 1987-89, an estimated 50,000 civilians disappeared or were killed.[4]Many activists groups describe the events as state terror.[5] The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (Sinhala janatÄ vimukti peramuṇa, Peoples Liberation Front) is a nationalist Marxist political party in Sri Lanka. ...
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The Peoples Liberation Front (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna) is a marxist Sinhalese political party in Sri Lanka was involved in 1971 youth uprising in Sri Lanka which were lost around 15,000 youth lives. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ...
The Peoples Liberation Front (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna) is a marxist Sinhalese political party in Sri Lanka was involved in 1987-89 insurrection in Sri Lanka which were lost around 50,000 lives. ...
Attacks on civilians, pre-1983 There were number of well established attacks by the state on civilians prior to 1983 Black July pogrom. The prominent ones are the fourth World Tamil Research Conference was held in the city of Jaffna between January 3 and 9, 1974, during which due to police action it resulted in the loss of nine lives, the loss of civilian property and more than 50 civilians sustaining severe injuries. The police officers involved were subsequently promoted by the government.[6] Location of Sri Lanka Black July is the commonly used name of the pogroms starting in Sri Lanka on July 23, 1983. ...
Jaffna District. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
1974 Tamil conference incident is when during the fourth World Tamil Research Conference was held in the city of Jaffna between January 3 and 9, 1974, police action resulted in the tragic loss of nine lives, the loss of civilian property and more than 50 civilians sustaining severe injuries. ...
With the increase in political tensions the next watershed event was the destruction of the Jaffna Public Library due to the actions of a mob sponsored by government agents. The library lost over 97,000 volumes of rare manuscripts, books and journals, in the process four Tamils were also killed. Nancy Murray, a director with ACLU wrote in a journal article in 1984, that several high ranking security officers and two cabinet ministers were present in the town of Jaffna, when uniformed security men and plainclothes[7] mob carried out organized acts of destruction and termed it an act of state terror.[8] During this event the Jaffna was burned. [9] Burning of Jaffna library was a watershed event in the ongoing Sri Lankan civil war. ...
The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is a non_governmental organization devoted to defending civil rights and civil liberties in the United States. ...
Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ...
Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ...
Jaffna District. ...
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Plainclothes often refers to a member of law enforcement, such as a detective or police officer, who, instead of wearing a uniform typically associated with the occupation, will wear ordinary clothes, in order to avoid detection or identification as a member of law enforcement. ...
The transition from the political confrontation to military action came in 1983, with the Black July pogrom. It started on July 23. Nearly 1000 Tamils were killed. More than 18,000 houses and commercial establishments were destroyed and a wave of Sri Lankan Tamils sought refugee in other countries. It is seen as the start of full-scale armed struggle between the Tamil militants and the state of Sri Lanka. During the state sponsored [10]pogrom, in Colombo, 53 political prisoners were killed inside a high security prison. No individuals have been convicted of crimes relating to these organized pogrom.[1][2](see pics here) Image File history File links Flag_of_Sri_Lanka. ...
The recorded History of Sri Lanka boasts of 25 chronicled centuries. ...
The origins of the Sri Lankan civil war lie in sharp disagreements over language, access to universities, and riots between Sri Lankas majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil community. ...
Location of Sri Lanka Black July is the commonly used name of the pogroms starting in Sri Lanka on July 23, 1983. ...
Following is a List of riots and pogroms in Sri Lanka. ...
The situation of human rights in Sri Lanka is generally considered to be very poor[1]. Major human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have repeatedly expressed concern about the states of human rights in Sri Lanka. ...
Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups rose to prominence in the 1970s to fight the state of Sri Lanka to create an independent Tamil Eelam. ...
Tamil Tigers emblem The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, is a military and political organization that has waged a violent secessionist campaign against the Sri Lankan Government since the 1970s in order to secure independence for the Tamil portions of Sri Lanka. ...
LTTE is a rebel group active in Sri Lanka that is banned as a terrorist group by 29 countries. ...
The following is a list of terrorist attacks attributed to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (commonly known as the Tamil Tigers or simply the LTTE). ...
Assassinations, murders and wholesale massacres of civilians in Sri Lanka have become an internationally recognized problem since the inception of the Sri Lankan civil war since 1983. ...
Military use of children in Sri Lanka has been an internationally recognized problem since the inception of the Sri Lankan civil war in 1983. ...
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Mahinda Rajapaksa Mahinda Rajapaksa (born November 18, 1945), Sri Lankan politician, became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on April 6, 2004, following the victory of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance in the April 2, 2004 Sri Lankan legislative elections. ...
Velupillai Prabhakaran (Tamil: வேலà¯à®ªà¯à®ªà®¿à®³à¯à®³à¯ˆ பிரபாகரனà¯; born November 26, 1954), sometimes referred to as V. Prabhakaran or Pirabaharan or as Thambi,[] was born in the northern coastal town of Velvettithurai, Sri Lanka to Thiruvenkadam Velupillai and Vallipuram Parvathy. ...
Karuna Amman was the second highest commanding officer of the LTTE who broke away due to Tigers attacks on civilians in Batticaloa, corruption within LTTE and the recruitment of child soldiers. ...
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Operation Poomalai or Eagle Mission 4 was the codename assigned to a mercy mission undertaken by the Indian Air Force to airdrop humanitarian relief supplies over the town of Jaffna and Jaffna Peninsula on 4 June 1987. ...
Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was signed on July 29, 1987, was signed by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and President J.R. Jayewardene, the Sri Lankan Government made a number of concessions to Tamil demands, which included devolution of power to the provinces, merger--subject to later referendum--of...
Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), was the Indian military contingent performing a peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990. ...
RÄjiv Ratna GÄndhÄ« (DevanÄgarÄ«: राजीव रतà¥à¤¨ गानà¥à¤§à¥€, IPA: ) (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India (and the 3rd from the Gandhi family) from his mothers death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December...
Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW)[1] is Indias external intelligence agency. ...
The Military of Sri Lanka consists of Three Branches which are the Army, Navy, Air Force. ...
Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (Tamil: தமிழீழ மகà¯à®•à®³à¯ விடà¯à®¤à®²à¯ˆà®ªà¯à®ªà¯à®²à®¿à®•à®³à¯, English: Tamileela Peoples Liberation Tigers) is a political party and paramilitary group formed in 2004 by break-away LTTE Military Head of Batticaloa district V. Muralitharan (Colonel Karuna). ...
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Assassinations, murders and massacres of civilians in Sri Lanka have become an internationally recognized problem since the inception of the Sri Lankan civil war since 1983. ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
Location of Sri Lanka Black July is the commonly used name of the pogroms starting in Sri Lanka on July 23, 1983. ...
July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 161 days remaining. ...
Sri Lankan Tamils also known as Eelam Tamils, Ceylonese or Ceylon Tamils and Jaffna Tamils are today a trans-national minority, and are Tamil people from Sri Lanka. ...
Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups began appearing in the 1970s to fight the state of Sri Lanka to create an independent Tamil Eelam. ...
Map of Colombo with its administrative districts Coordinates: District Colombo District Government - Mayor Uvaiz Mohammad Imitiyaz (Sri Lanka Freedom Party) Area - City 37. ...
The Welikada prison massacre happened during the 1983 Black July pogrom against the Sri Lankan Tamil minority in Colombo, Sri Lanka. ...
Response to the post 1983 civil conflict As part of the military actions against the rebel LTTE group many massacres of civilians and series of prison massacres, assassinations of political opponents have taken place. LTTE is an acronym or initialism for: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Known for their guerilla warfare forcibly killing every other independent groups aiming for seperate state. ...
Massacres are individual events of deliberate mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents. ...
Prison massacres in Sri Lanka have occured in regular intervals since the inception of the civil conflict from 1983. ...
assassin, see Assassin (disambiguation) Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald in a very public manner. ...
Civilian massacres The unfolding 2006 Mannar massacres have allegedly been attributed to the Sri Lankan military forces. On June 8, 2006 a family of four including two children were massacred in the village of Vankalai by the Sri Lankan Army.(See pic here)A prominent Sri Lanka dissident who is majority Sinhalese himself termed the masscre an act of state terror[11] 2006 Mannar massacres is a series of unfolding massacres of minority Tamil civilians in the island of Mannar in Sri Lanka. ...
The Padahuthurai bombing happened on January 02, 2007 when the Sri Lanka Air Force bombed what they claimed to be rebel LTTE naval base in Illuppaikadavai in Northern Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, the local Roman Catholic bishop and the LTTE claimed fifteen (15) minority Sri Lankan Tamils including women and children died and 35 were injured due to the bombing.[12][13] The Bishop termed it an act of state terror.[14] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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TamilNet is a news website that provides news and feature articles on current affairs in Sri Lanka, specifically related to the ongoing ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. ...
Funeral procession of the victims of the bombing, Source:TamilNet. ...
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2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
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LTTE is an acronym or initialism for: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Known for their guerilla warfare forcibly killing every other independent groups aiming for seperate state. ...
The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission - SLMM, was established on February 22, 2002 by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). ...
The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
LTTE is an acronym or initialism for: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Known for their guerilla warfare forcibly killing every other independent groups aiming for seperate state. ...
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Involuntary disappearances Human Rights organization such AHRC[15] and Amnesty International [16] have complained that in 2006 up to 400 people have been disappeared, 245 of who were detained by the army, with another further 25 by the LTTE.
The Amnesty international has said that there is a disturbing pattern of incomplete or ineffective investigations by the government, with the result that perpetrators of such violence generally operate with impunity.[17]. The Tamil daily Uthayan published from Jaffna termed it state terror[18](See Video of White Van abductions)
In 2007, a press release apparently from University of Jaffna students appealing to the rest of the world to protect them from acts of state terror associted with abductions and murders was released.[19] 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
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Backing of paramilitary group The Karuna fraction knows as TMVP has been abducted and forcibly recruited hundreds of children in eastern Sri Lanka With the complicity or willful blindness of the Sri Lankan government. Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (Tamil: தமிழீழ மகà¯à®•à®³à¯ விடà¯à®¤à®²à¯ˆà®ªà¯à®ªà¯à®²à®¿à®•à®³à¯, English: Tamileela Peoples Liberation Tigers) is a political party and paramilitary group formed in 2004 by break-away LTTE Military Head of Batticaloa district V. Muralitharan (Colonel Karuna). ...
Child rights advocate at Human Rights Watch was quoted saying
"After years of condemning child recruitment by the Tamil Tigers, the government is now complicit in the same crimes," and "The government’s collusion on child abductions by the Karuna group highlights its hypocrisy" தமிழீழ மகà¯à®•à®³à¯ விடà¯à®¤à®²à¯ˆà®ªà¯à®ªà¯à®²à®¿à®•à®³à¯, Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal or in English Tamileela Peoples Liberation Tigers, a political party and Para-military group formed in 2004 by break-away LTTE Military Head of Batticaloa district V. Muralitharan (Colonel Karuna). ...
. He further added "Not only do government forces fail to stop the abductions, but they allow the Karuna group to transport kidnapped children through checkpoints on the way to their camps" The police is complicit in their unwillingness to seriously investigate complaints filed by the parents of abducted members of the family. The poilce also reportedly refused to register parents’ complaints. In some cases, the police registered the complaint but failed to undertake proper investigation. The police has not secured the child’s release in any of these cases.[20].The Sri Lankan government has denied these allegations[21]Some Human Rights agencies have termed the alleged recruitment of children by government backed forces as state terror[22]
According to Human Rights group AHRC, the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court identifies Two organisations with this abbreviation: Asian Human Rights Commission Arts and Humanities Research Council ...
"conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities" as a war crime. The agency has appealed to the international community to refer Sri Lanka to the ICC for investigation into the violations of the Rome Statute. [23] ICC may refer to: // ICC Bank, Ireland ICC Productions, hip-hop record label International Chamber of Commerce, supporting global trade and globalisation Internet Chess Club, a commercial Internet site on which to play chess International Christian Communications Media Group International Code Council Membership association dedicated to building safety and fire...
Reactions Many acts associted with the Sri Lankan civil war such as rapes, massacres and murders have been termed as acts of state terror by Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora [24] [25] groups and other international activists groups[26] but the Asian Human Rights Commission(AHRC) has noted that it seems that the war's major contributions to the prevalence of torture and state terror in "peaceful" areas have been: The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora also known as Jaffnese diaspora and Ceylonese diaspora refers to the global diaspora of the people of Sri Lankan Tamil origin. ...
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was founded in 1986 by a prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia. ...
- The permeation of its horrific levels of violence and terrorism into social institutions and
- The acceptability and legitimacy that it has provided for further proliferating the "traditions" of violence and domination.
The report concludes that acts of State terror have become instituitionalized throughout the country not just in the war torn North and East.[27]Some countries have frozen their foreign aid to Sri Lanka to protest allegations of state terror in response to call by Human rights groups.[28][29]
References Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah is a leading social anthropologist and Harvard University professor. ...
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Rohan Gunaratna is a researcher based in Singapore whose field of specialisation is terrorism, particulary Islamic terrorism, and especially groups in South East Asia such as Jemaah Islamiya ( Indonesia ) and Abu Sayyaf ( Phillipines ). He is the authour of Inside Al-Qaeda as well as many other publications. ...
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Further reading - Myrdal, Gunnar (1968). Asian Drama: an Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations. Pantheon. ASIN B000E80DGO.
- Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam (1989). The Break up of Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1211-5.
- Yael Danieli, Danny Brom, Joe SillsThe Trauma Of Terrorism: Sharing Knowledge and Shared Care, an International Handbook (See here)
- A.J.WilsonSri Lankan Tamil nationalism (see here)
Gunnar Myrdal (December 6, 1898 – May 17, 1987) was a Swedish economist and politician. ...
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