When you hear bells in a war there have been war crimes, the reality is often actually been committed and that were much worse than the rumors say.
Sri Lanka's war ended in May 2009 had all the ingredients to commit atrocities: 1) facing two ethnic communities, which their leaders had spent years feeding with hate speech, 2) Both contendienteshabían demonstrated little concern for civilian casualties there, 3) The broken truces and negotiations over and over again had eliminated any degree of mutual trust and good will that might have the parts, 4) The decades of conflict had finished producing on both sides the desire not to leave the war until they had achieved their maximum goals. In recent years, neither the government nor the LTTE wanted a compromise peace.
had hardly finished the war in Sri Lanka, there was awareness in the international community that there were war crimes in its closing stages. Now, a report by a panel of UN experts tells us how serious were the atrocities that were committed.
The report begins by acknowledging both the government and rebels of having committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. Especially in the latter stages of the war, both sides threw away any qualms they might have and showed no concern for the fate of civilians.
The report alleges that between September 2008 and May 2009, government forces indiscriminately shelled the Vanni area, where 330 000 Tamil civilians were trapped. The government bombed even three safe areas where people were told to concentrate. No matter that its bombing hampered UN efforts to assist with food and medicine to civilians caught and his desire to crush the enemy, came to bomb hospitals.
Those lucky enough to escape the bombed area still had to go through other tests. Government forces were subjected to a screening process for possible LTTE guerrillas who were infiltrators among the displaced. There were summary executions, disappearances, rapes and other abuses. That passed the filter, were taken to overcrowded camps with terrible sanitary conditions and where some were tortured. The report charges that in these areas there were many unnecessary deaths because of the harsh conditions.
Abuses by government forces do not imply that the LTTE were some lambs. The LTTE used civilians as shields, preventing them from leaving the combat zone. He forced recruits for both its fighting forces for other tasks such as digging trenches. In the latter stages of the war, the LTTE came to kill the civilians trying to escape the combat zone. And to prove they were just assholes that the government, did not worry about indiscriminate shelling of civilians in the area were affected. The only difference is that they had fewer missiles than the government.
The UN report does not address, because it was his mission that the Sri Lankan government to operate with more comfort, began at that time efforts to ensure that civil society does not rechistaría: disappearances, silencing of journalists (some by the radical method of ensuring that would stop breathing forever), intimidation NGOs and even the staff of international organizations ...
The International Crisis Group estimates that between 30,000 and 75,000 people whose fate is unknown and most likely die in the last months of civil war. The calculation is done by subtracting the number of civilians caught in the combat zone of civilians in camps IDP government.
The Sri Lankan government has done what was done in these cases: to say that the whole report is a lie and that their authors have not been fair, but they were prejudiced against him and it went too far in the mission had. What more is coming to recognize that some civilians were killed as government troops went into the last strongholds of the LTTE.
Presumably, the report will end where it ends so many UN reports: on a shelf. Russia, China and India support the Rajapakse regime and prevent you from removing the UN colors. As for the West, with which it is falling Syria and Libya, I doubt that I really want to complicate life for things that happened two years ago on a small island in the Indian Ocean.
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