திங்கள், 18 மே, 2015

New mantra of ‘hybrid courts’ in the game of geo-politics

New mantra of ‘hybrid courts’ in the game of geo-politics

[TamilNet, Sunday, 17 May 2015, 10:57 GMT]
The US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) was condemning the new regime of Sri Lanka for appointing Major General Jagath Dias, the war-time commander of the abusive 57 division of the SL Military as the new Army Chief of Staff. At the same time, the HRW was urging the new regime in Colombo to “put into place an effective accountability mechanism with a significant international component.” The Tamil people should note the terminology being adopted in the global orchestration in narrowing down the ‘pressure’ on Sri Lanka into a domestic process, Tamil activists for alternative politics in Jaffna cautioned on Sunday. Tamils should pay particular attention to how the HRW and other rights outfits are trying to justify a ‘domestic‘ process while the USA and China are competing with each other in building strategic partnerships in the Indian Ocean Region, the activists further said.

“The government should put into place an effective accountability mechanism with a significant international component,” the HRW said in its statement issued on Sunday.

The statement went on to say: “Previous government accountability mechanisms have been impaired by harassment, threats, and violence against witnesses and commissioners. The best way to address this problem would be to create a combined international and domestic court similar to the successful hybrid courts in Sierra Leone and Bosnia-Herzegovina.”

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Responding, the Tamil activists for alternative politics said: “Within one year, the terminology being adopted by the personalities and outfits serving the global human rights regime has been systematically downplayed from ‘international mechanism’, through ‘international involvement’, and later ‘international assistance’ and into international component in Sri Lankan domestic investigations in addressing the war crimes and the crimes against humanity. The international players were systematically avoiding the term genocide.

What we have witnessed today in the statement issued by the US-based rights watchdog, is the introduction of the term ‘international component’ and the example of ‘hybrid courts’ of Sierra Leone and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The global outfits serving the geopolitics are also directing the Colombo-based legal activists and NGO circles in Colombo in an effort to justify a domestic process, the activists said.

“This is an orchestration of geo-politics-driven human rights agenda and Tamils should take particular note of these developments, as they mark the Genocide Memorial Day on 18 May,” the Tamil activists said.

The Sri Lankan state, and all its organs including the judiciary, is a guilty party in the crime of genocide. The apprehension around hybrid courts is that it gives legitimacy to the guilty party by virtue of giving legitimacy to the local judiciary.

“The emerging students of international law among the global Tamils should subject the role played by the outfits such as the Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group to critical scrutiny,” the activists for alternative politics further said.

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Former Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, Louise Arbour, who became the UN Human Rights chief (1999 - 2004) and later the president and the CEO of the International Crisis Group (2009 - 2014), was reasoning out why the ICG was not supporting the claim of Tamil independence in the island. The ICG, under her leadership was in the forefront in denying the genocide committed on Eezham Tamils. Her successor in the UN Human Rights Commission, Navi Pillay, was also not recognising the allegation of genocide in 2013.

In an address to Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Ms Arbour was also ‘explaining’ why the ICG was not backing the claim of ‘earned sovereignty’ to Eezham Tamils.

The video evidence added herewith would show how the CEO of the ICG, Louise Arbour. was negating the sovereignty and the demand for independence of Eezham Tamils in September 2010.+



ICG, at that time, was calling for ‘international investigation’ into the alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. But, the group was promoting the paradigm of equating the violations of the oppressive and genocidal state of Sri Lanka with that of the LTTE and the orchestration at that time was that an international investigation should subject the war crimes of ‘both sides’.

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