Tamils Interned In Squalid Conditions
Posted on May 20, 2009
Agencies report that the Sri Lankan government is already restricting access to Tamil internment camps, and that by the end of the week,
the number of internally displaced people in camps is expected to have grown to more than a quarter of a million people since late April.
Other reports suggest that Tamils could be living behind razor wire in deplorable conditions for another two years while authorities ‘weed out’ Tamil Tiger fighters before the rest are ‘resettled’. This, and the Sri Lankan military’s previous repeated shelling of refugees and a hospital inside the so-called ‘no-fire’ zone, is contrary to the government’s propaganda claims of a shared day of ‘victory’ for both Sinhalese and Tamils. Amnesty International says that three doctors, Dr T Sathiyamoorthy, Dr T Varatharajah and Dr V Shanmugarajah are now missing.
Their reports detailed the suffering of ordinary civilians, many of whom died from war-related injuries. They also highlighted the continuous shelling of areas with large concentrations of non-combatants.
The three were last seen on Friday 15 May in a holding area at Omanthai checking point. They had been working for the government in the conflict zone in north-eastern Sri Lanka, treating the sick and wounded until they travelled out of the ‘No Fire Zone’ with approximately 5,000 other civilians.
There has been disgusting cheerleading for genocide on the political right in Britain, epitomised by Melanie Phillips’ vile column in the Spectator, praising the ‘notable’ ruthlessness of the Sri Lankan government’s prosecution of the Tamil genocide from which she, brazenly begging the question, draws the (unsurprising) conclusion that
The lesson to learn from all this would therefore seem to be that terrorist insurgencies can only be defeated by military means  – which in turn can only work if such measures are not undermined by the queasy neo-pacifism and defeatism of the west expressed through the surrender monkeys of human rights lawyers, NGOs and the media.
That statement looks like a justification for leaving the Einsatzgruppen to get on with their ‘grim but necessary work’ away from the prying eyes of the public and the press — ‘Mad’ doesn’t come close to the enormity of it.
