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CONTENTS
OF THIS SECTION
22/07/09 |
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Human Rights Watch Report & Sri Lanka Foreign Minister
- Victor Rajakulendran 23 March 2006 |
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Sachi Sri Kantha - Disssecting the Semi-fictionalized Survey
of Jo Becker, 22 March 2006 |
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Funding Peace & Dignity - a Response to Human
Rights Watch - International
Federation of Tamils, 18 March 2006 |
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A
Response to Human Rights Watch - Ana Pararajasingham, 18
March 2006 |
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International Educational Development at UN Commission on
Human Rights, March 2006, "United
States has substantial interests in Sri Lanka, especially as
the United States seeks to expand its role and power in Asia...Understanding
the interests of the United States in the Tamil areas of Sri
Lanka goes a long way to explaining the United States� overt
actions in relation to the conflict in Sri Lanka, the most
prominent being its harsh rhetoric against the Tamils
and their leadership under the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE)..."
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US based think tank Stratfor, 14 July 2004
"...The plan is to destabilize the Tigers, bait the
group into confrontation and ultimately launch an offensive
aimed at destroying the fractured Tamil movement once and
for all," the analysts at Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor)
said quoting unnamed sources inside the Sri Lankan
government....Colombo probably hopes a renewed guerrilla war
will be tempered by internal struggles and that, once
weakened, the Tigers can be destroyed, the US analysts
said....According to the US analysts, in the event of a
renewed war �the Tigers will likely end up weaker - perhaps
no longer in a position to make the demands for autonomy
that helped cause the internal strife in the first place.� |
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Human Rights &
Humanitarian Law
Human Rights Watch Report:
The Conclusion & Some of the Facts
"எப்பொருள் யார்யார்வாய்க்
கேட்பினும்
அப்பொருள் - மெய்ப்பொருள் காண்ப தறிவு"
"Whatever may
be said, whosoever may say it
- to determine the truth of it, is wisdom"
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Thirukural
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Conclusion by Human Rights Watch... |
"...LTTE�s use of intimidation, harassment, extortion, and
even physical violence against members of the Tamil diaspora
is effectively stifling Tamil dissent regarding
ongoing LTTE human rights abuses in Sri Lanka...."
Conclusion of Jo Becker, sometime Washington Post
journalist and currently Human Rights Watch Advocate, Human
Rights Watch Report entitled , "Funding the 'Final War'
LTTE Intimidation and Extortion in the Tamil Diaspora" 14
March 2006
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Who is Human Rights Watch?... |
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From the Human Rights Watch Website
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" Around 150 professionals work for Human
Rights Watch around the world. They are lawyers,
journalists, academics, and country experts. Human
Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization
based in the United States. ... Human Rights Watch
started in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, to monitor the
compliance of Soviet bloc countries with the human
rights provisions of the landmark Helsinki Accords. ..To
maintain our independence, we do not accept financial
support from any government or government-funded agency.
We depend entirely on contributions from private
foundations and from individuals like you..."
Note by tamilnation.org
It will be helpful if Human Rights Watch adopted a
more transparent approach to its funding sources and
declared the identity of all the private foundations and
individuals who fund it. This is particularly important
not only because HRW holds itself out as an
'independent human rights organisation' without a
political agenda, but also because unlike Amnesty
International, HRW is
not a mass membership organisation. It will also be
helpful if HRW discloses the way in which its Directors
and Executive officers are chosen - whether they are
elected or appointed - and by whom. Those outside
HRW will then be able to judge for themselves the
extent, if any, of the direct or indirect influence that
US government agencies and US foreign policy, may
have on the approaches adopted by Human Rights Watch
from the days when it was Helsinki Watch and monitored
the compliance of Soviet bloc countries with the human
rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords. The
case of the writer
Stephen Spender and the
funding of the British opinion magazine Encounter
is one of many that come to mind.
[see also
Who is behind Human
Rights Watch? - Paul Treanor and
Human Rights Watch as a Political Instrument of the
Liberal Cosmopollitan Elite of the United States of
America - Oleg Popov, 16 November 2004 ]
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... & Some of the Facts relating to the HRW Report titled
"Funding the 'Final War' LTTE Intimidation and
Extortion in the Tamil Diaspora" |
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"Intimidation and
Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"....in
Toronto, Canada, September 2004 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"....in
London
Excel, Royal Victoria Dock, London,
November 2004
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled" .... in
Switzerland, Greeting LTTE Delegation,
2006 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled".......in
Essen, Germany, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"...in
Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"... in
Palermo, Italy, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"...in
Herning, Denmark, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"...in
Oslo, Norway, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"...in
Toronto, Canada, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"...in
Melbourne, Australia, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"...in
Sydney, Australia, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled"...in
South Africa, 2005 |
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"Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and
Stifled" ...
in Geneva, April 2004 |
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and, ofcourse ...."Intimidation and
Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"...
in Tamil Eelam, 2005 |
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