Thursday, 30 June 2016

Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka (Part 3/3): Massacres, Pogroms, Destruction of property, Sexual violence and Assassinations of civil society leaders


A report by International Human Rights Association Bremen. Reposted from PEOPLES' TRIBUNAL ON SRI LANKA


Genocide against the Tamil People
 
MASSACRES, POGROMS, DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND ASSASSINATIONS OF CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS


Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:
 Article 2
(a) Killing members of the group; 
 (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
 (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”


Full report: https://web.archive.org/web/20200420000549/http://www.ptsrilanka.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/massacres_pogroms_en.pdf

                                                        Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3