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Black July 1983: the Charge is Genocide
The facts taken together, are consistent
only with the charge that it was the Sri Lankan authorities who were the
planners of Genocide '83...
- the attempt by the Sri Lankan government to explain away the
violence wreaked on the Tamils as a 'left inspired plot';
- the statement of Sri
Lanka's Ambassador in Geneva that the violence was a
'spontaneous reaction';
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The statement by the
Minister of State, Mr.Anandatissa de Alwis that the
violence 'was part of an international conspiracy to destabilise
us... Behind all this is the foreign hand: the KGB, to be
precise..."
- the declaration of Minister Mathew that if the Sinhalese are
the majority they must act as the majority;
- the failure of President Jayawardene to offer a single word
of sympathy to the victims of the attack;
- the assertion of President Jayawardene that the violence was
but a 'clamour and a natural request' of the Sinhala people;
- the failure to establish an independent commission of
inquiry despite the pledges given by Sri Lanka to the UN
Commission on Human Rights and the requests made by Amnesty
International and the International Commission of Jurists;
- and the conduct of the state security forces and the police
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are circumstances, which, when taken together, are
consistent only with the charge that the Sri Lankan authorities were
engaged in a cover up and that it was they who were the planners of
genocide '83.
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