Tamils - a Trans State Nation.. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise!. The Tamil Centre for Human Rights is the first and the only human rights organisation which has visited the conflict villages in the NorthEast where there had been severe human rights violations - massacres, disappearances, rape, looting, arson arrest, torture during the twenty years of bloody conflict in the NorthEast and upcountry in the island of Sri Lanka.
Kirubaharan — General Secretary France , Mr. Indiran Chinniah The Netherlands , Mr. The Sri Lankan Government's justification is that these happenings are inevitable in a theatre of war. Does the international community accept the stand taken by Sri Lanka? Child soldiers in Batticaloa. Everyone with whom we met and spoke, requested us to withhold his or her name and address in our reporting for obvious reasons, except the people in Vanni.
In fact, some of the people whose names were published in our last reports had been warned by some government authorities. Terminologies used in this reporting were expressed orally by the people whom we met. In the past, there had been reports of fact finding missions by a few foreign human rights organisations. Those reports were written after visiting Colombo the capital of Sri Lanka, Kandy, Beruwela and other tourist locations where there is no ethnic conflict.
Situation in Colombo During our stay in Colombo we met many NGO representatives, parliamentarians, academics and media personnel. In Colombo, we saw vehicles being checked by the Police and the other security personnel in the evenings.
Our cab taxi was stopped on two occasions in Colombo by the Police. The Police enquired from the driver in Sinhala about us and the destination of the vehicle. In Colombo Fort, all the roads close to the President's residence are closed to public use. This is a commercial area where Central bank and other prominent banks are situated.
