Tamils protest at Sri Lankan ‘genocide’

THOUSANDS of demonstrators marched through London on Saturday to draw the attention of the world to the plight of Tamils caught up in the Sri Lankan army’s offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who have been fighting since 1983 to set up an independent Tamil state.

by Tribune Web Editor
Thursday, April 16th, 2009

by Keith Richmond

THOUSANDS of demonstrators marched through London on Saturday to draw the attention of the world to the plight of Tamils caught up in the Sri Lankan army’s offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who have been fighting since 1983 to set up an independent Tamil state.

More than 50,000 government troops have been moving in this week to try and flush out the remaining rebels – believed to number about 1,000 – trapped in a small strip of jungle in the north of the country. The government says the operation will end the 25-year-long civil war.

Suren Surendiran of the British Tamils Forum, which organised the march, said: “The event was part of the worldwide protest against the international community’s inaction in the face of genocide. We want the British Government to get a resolution at the UN to implement an immediate ceasefire.”

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  • Vishnu Sasisekaran

    Dear Mr Keith Richmond,

    I can understand why you picked this angle for your article, but I think you’ve made a grave mistake. I notice the fact that genocide has been written in quotation marks and you have not even mentioned the fact that there are thousands of innocent civilians caught up in the conflict. There is no doubt in my mind what is happening in Sri Lanka is a genocide, as this isn’t even the government’s first act of genocide. My mother was a survivor of ethnic cleansing and genocide during 1983 when state sponsored mobs destroyed homes and businesses, raped Tamil women and burnt Tamil men in Colombo. Right now in the North the SL Government is using gas and chemical weapons and they have banned international media. Why would a government need to do something like this? Just to kill off the Tigers? They’ve announced to the world that killing off the Tigers is a prerogative, so they are not hiding that. But using weapons banned by the UN and wiping out a whole race, that is something the Sri Lankan Government wouldn’t like the world to know about.

    For the record I don’t believe in the Tamil Tigers or any form of militancy. I know that the LTTE are responsible for a range human rights abuses including the killing of innocent civilians and recruiting child soldiers. But for all the media, the Sinhalese people, and all others watching around the world do you really believe that the LTTE would destroy thousands OF TAMIL (NOT SINHALESE BUT TAMIL) LIVES when they are FIGHTING FOR THE TAMILS? DOES THAT IN ANYWAY MAKE SENSE TO YOU? The LTTE does not want to kill off its people that is just stupid. It has attacked Tamils but usually dissidents, Tamil politicians or as collateral damage. This is incredibly stupid for the world to accept that the LTTE are wiping out the very people that they fight for.

    In this article you make it sound like people are fighting to stop the tigers from being killed. Many, if not most of these Tamils do support the Tigers at the protest, but their primary concern is for the innocent civilians trapped in the war. There are Tamils who don’t entirely agree with the Tigers or their methods, but they join the protest because they can’t sit back and watch while their whole race is being wiped out. People such as me.

    We said never again, to the Holocaust, only to do it again in Cambodia. Then we said never again but there was Rwanda. We said never again but I hope we won’t have to say never again this time for Sri Lanka.

    Vishnu Sasisekaran

  • Vishnu Sasisekaran

    Dear Mr Keith Richmond,

    I can understand why you picked this angle for your article, but I think you’ve made a grave mistake. I notice the fact that genocide has been written in quotation marks and you have not even mentioned the fact that there are thousands of innocent civilians caught up in the conflict. There is no doubt in my mind what is happening in Sri Lanka is a genocide, as this isn’t even the government’s first act of genocide. My mother was a survivor of ethnic cleansing and genocide during 1983 when state sponsored mobs destroyed homes and businesses, raped Tamil women and burnt Tamil men in Colombo. Right now in the North the SL Government is using gas and chemical weapons and they have banned international media. Why would a government need to do something like this? Just to kill off the Tigers? They’ve announced to the world that killing off the Tigers is a prerogative, so they are not hiding that. But using weapons banned by the UN and wiping out a whole race, that is something the Sri Lankan Government wouldn’t like the world to know about.

    For the record I don’t believe in the Tamil Tigers or any form of militancy. I know that the LTTE are responsible for a range human rights abuses including the killing of innocent civilians and recruiting child soldiers. But for all the media, the Sinhalese people, and all others watching around the world do you really believe that the LTTE would destroy thousands OF TAMIL (NOT SINHALESE BUT TAMIL) LIVES when they are FIGHTING FOR THE TAMILS? DOES THAT IN ANYWAY MAKE SENSE TO YOU? The LTTE does not want to kill off its people that is just stupid. It has attacked Tamils but usually dissidents, Tamil politicians or as collateral damage. This is incredibly stupid for the world to accept that the LTTE are wiping out the very people that they fight for.

    In this article you make it sound like people are fighting to stop the tigers from being killed. Many, if not most of these Tamils do support the Tigers at the protest, but their primary concern is for the innocent civilians trapped in the war. There are Tamils who don’t entirely agree with the Tigers or their methods, but they join the protest because they can’t sit back and watch while their whole race is being wiped out. People such as me.

    We said never again, to the Holocaust, only to do it again in Cambodia. Then we said never again but there was Rwanda. We said never again but I hope we won’t have to say never again this time for Sri Lanka.

    Vishnu Sasisekaran

  • BK

    Genocide in Sri Lanka?

    There has been a reluctance on the part of the mainstream media to accept the term “genocide” that has been used to describe the situation in the Wanni region of Sri Lanka. A large part of this has to do with the association, in the public mind, of these terms with the Holocaust, which involved one of the worst genocides perpetrated in human history. A careful study of this term, however, reveals that this is indeed an appropriate word to describe what is going on in Sri Lanka today.

    Article 2 of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such: killing members of the group; causing series bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” Clearly, intent is a crucial part of the definition of the term. And it is readily apparent that both parties to the conflict — the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE — have intentionally brought about untold destruction of civilian life in the Vanni region. The LTTE, although they claim to be the sole representative of the Tamils, have been accused of using Tamil civilians as human shields and intentionally firing on those who have tried to escape their grip. Still worse is the Government of Sri Lanka, who despite claiming to represent all of the island’s ethnicities, engages in indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilian areas and routinely violates international humanitarian law in their military campaign into predominantly Tamil areas.

    The defense used by the Government that this cannot be a genocide because Tamils are not being killed in other parts of the country fails to hold water because the genocide definition only requires that the acts are intended to destroy “in part” a national or ethnic group. The defense employed by the Government that civilian deaths are “collateral damage” or an unintended consequence also does not stand because the Government has always maintained that this is not an ethnic war but a war against a terrorist outfit aimed at liberating a segment of the population. If this were the case, then the utmost care would be exercised by a Government seeking to free its people from a ruthless outfit holding them hostage. But this is far from the case, as Government use of multibarrel rocket launchers to decimate large swathes of territory (HRW) and intentional bombing of declared “safe zones” demonstrates that the Sri Lankan armed forces do not view the Tamil civilians as “their people” but as LTTE-sympathizers whom they are intent on destroying or imprisoning. Furthermore, there would be no need to expel UN monitors, NGOs and journalists from the conflict zone unless there was something the Government had to hide.

    Chaulk and Jonassohn define a “retributive genocide” as one that is most likely to occur when one group dominates another group and fears its rebellion when the other group actually rebels. This was what happened in 1983 during the Sri Lankan state-sponsored pogrom, when Sinhala thugs were provided voter lists in order to wreak maximum damage on the Tamil population after 13 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in an ambush by the LTTE; and this is what is happening again with the Sri Lankan army’s assault on the Vanni region in Northern Sri Lankan after ongoing suicide bombings by the LTTE.

    Thus, the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka is two-fold: an autogenocide perpetrated by the LTTE and a retributive genocide waged by the Government of Sri Lanka.

    If we can accept that the situation in Sri Lanka clearly fits the UN definition and a number of scholarly definitions of the term, why then the reluctance to apply it to the present situation? First, many people hold the view that while what is happening in Sri Lanka is horrible, the scale of it is not the same as what happened during the Holocaust and in Rwanda — two of the most memorable and worst genocides in human history. And that by labelling what is presently occurring in Sri Lanka a genocide, we in some way detract from the historical significance of these events. I would, however, argue that we need a broader conceptualization of the term. If we only acknowledged genocides on the scale of the Holocaust and Rwanda, we would overlook some terrible situations in this world and lose our ability to prevent situations from spiralling out of control. On the other hand, if we are too broad in our conceptualization, we could end up labelling everything a genocide, and the term would lose its usefulness. Second, use of the term “genocide” implores one to act. If genocide is going on, something must be done to stop it. This is why, as recently as Darfur, people have opposed use of the term to benefit politically and downplay the human tragedy. And this is precisely why I favor a broader conceptualization of the term. We cannot simply wait until it is too late to call a situation a genocide.

    Well, how bad is the situation in Sri Lanka? An unobstructed view of the numbers is revelatory. Of the 75,000 lives claimed in the ongoing violence since independence, the vast majority (greater than 95%) are Tamil; at least 800,000 Tamils have been displaced all over globe (primarily the result of the 1983 pogrom and systematic government discrimination); and currently there are least 325,000 internally displaced Tamils within Sri Lanka. This would mean that at a minimum, a whopping 40% of the Sri Lankan Tamil population have been directly affected in a significant way by this ongoing conflict. Anywhere between 2-3% of the Tamil population in Sri Lanka have been killed, and the potential exists for this number to increase to anywhere in the range of 7-9% based on the number of civilians trapped in the conflict zone. By comparison, the Guatemalan genocide involved 3% of the Mayan population killed, the Kurdish genocide in Iraq saw 4% of the Kurdish population eradicated, the Bosnian genocide saw 6% of the Bosnian muslim population eliminated, and in Darfur we witnessed 8% of the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur tribes decimated. Must we wait for this percentage to climb before we can label this situation a genocide, or can we act before then?

    The genocide in Sri Lanka is also tougher to name because it does not involve a singularly discernible perpetrator. There is no Hitler or Hussein. Today there is Rajapaske; yesterday it was Jayawardene (“The more you put pressure in the north, the happier the Sinhala people will be here. Really, if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy.” 1983) But close inspection reveals what can be seen to be a slow, insidious genocide. While no official decree bids the killing of Tamils, a culture has been fostered whereby Tamils can be imprisoned, tortured or killed with impunity. Not a single member of the Sri Lankan armed forces has been charged for a crime against a Tamil civilian. The only crimes that go punished are those that involve speaking out against the Government. The common thread that ties the many Sri Lankan governments is the underlying belief that Tamils are interlopers on the island, and that they must not “make undue demands” (Sarath Fonseka). Articles on prominent Sri Lankan websites (e.g., LankaWeb’s “The Only Practical Solution) advocate genocide as the only viable solution to eliminate the Tamil “cancer.” And while the rhetoric of the government is careful not to openly reflect this line of thinking, there is no effort made to suppress these viotriolic forces and the government’s actions certainly leave no doubt in anyone’s minds what their objective might be.

    In defining genocide, Raphael Lemkin (1943) wrote, “Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.”

    The genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka quite plainly fits this description. Since the independence of the island, there has been a carefully coordinated set of actions that were aimed at destroying the essential foundations of life for Tamils, beginning with the Sinhala Only Act in 1956, which deprived Tamils the right to use their language in an official capacity, right through to Standardization in 1976, which deprived Tamils equal rights to education. State-sponsored colonization schemes were then carefully employed to undermine Tamil claims for a homeland and feelings of national solidarity. The burning of the historical Jaffna Library was another such coordinated action aimed at destroying a monumental cultural institution of the Tamils. The organized pogroms of 1956, 1958, 1971, 1977 and 1983 demonstrate a historical continuity to the genocide. The Chenmanni mass grave in 1996 where the bodies of 600 disappeared Tamils were unearthed in the Jaffna peninsula is one of many examples of what happens to Tamil civilians at the hands of the Sri Lankan armed forces even after a military campaign is complete. As a result, the roughly 3,000 civilians that have been killed in the Vanni in 2009 must be seen in the context of the historical genocide perpetrated against Tamils primarily by the Sri Lankan state, although recently also by the LTTE who claim to be fighting on behalf of Tamils.

  • BK

    Genocide in Sri Lanka?

    There has been a reluctance on the part of the mainstream media to accept the term “genocide” that has been used to describe the situation in the Wanni region of Sri Lanka. A large part of this has to do with the association, in the public mind, of these terms with the Holocaust, which involved one of the worst genocides perpetrated in human history. A careful study of this term, however, reveals that this is indeed an appropriate word to describe what is going on in Sri Lanka today.

    Article 2 of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such: killing members of the group; causing series bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” Clearly, intent is a crucial part of the definition of the term. And it is readily apparent that both parties to the conflict — the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE — have intentionally brought about untold destruction of civilian life in the Vanni region. The LTTE, although they claim to be the sole representative of the Tamils, have been accused of using Tamil civilians as human shields and intentionally firing on those who have tried to escape their grip. Still worse is the Government of Sri Lanka, who despite claiming to represent all of the island’s ethnicities, engages in indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilian areas and routinely violates international humanitarian law in their military campaign into predominantly Tamil areas.

    The defense used by the Government that this cannot be a genocide because Tamils are not being killed in other parts of the country fails to hold water because the genocide definition only requires that the acts are intended to destroy “in part” a national or ethnic group. The defense employed by the Government that civilian deaths are “collateral damage” or an unintended consequence also does not stand because the Government has always maintained that this is not an ethnic war but a war against a terrorist outfit aimed at liberating a segment of the population. If this were the case, then the utmost care would be exercised by a Government seeking to free its people from a ruthless outfit holding them hostage. But this is far from the case, as Government use of multibarrel rocket launchers to decimate large swathes of territory (HRW) and intentional bombing of declared “safe zones” demonstrates that the Sri Lankan armed forces do not view the Tamil civilians as “their people” but as LTTE-sympathizers whom they are intent on destroying or imprisoning. Furthermore, there would be no need to expel UN monitors, NGOs and journalists from the conflict zone unless there was something the Government had to hide.

    Chaulk and Jonassohn define a “retributive genocide” as one that is most likely to occur when one group dominates another group and fears its rebellion when the other group actually rebels. This was what happened in 1983 during the Sri Lankan state-sponsored pogrom, when Sinhala thugs were provided voter lists in order to wreak maximum damage on the Tamil population after 13 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in an ambush by the LTTE; and this is what is happening again with the Sri Lankan army’s assault on the Vanni region in Northern Sri Lankan after ongoing suicide bombings by the LTTE.

    Thus, the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka is two-fold: an autogenocide perpetrated by the LTTE and a retributive genocide waged by the Government of Sri Lanka.

    If we can accept that the situation in Sri Lanka clearly fits the UN definition and a number of scholarly definitions of the term, why then the reluctance to apply it to the present situation? First, many people hold the view that while what is happening in Sri Lanka is horrible, the scale of it is not the same as what happened during the Holocaust and in Rwanda — two of the most memorable and worst genocides in human history. And that by labelling what is presently occurring in Sri Lanka a genocide, we in some way detract from the historical significance of these events. I would, however, argue that we need a broader conceptualization of the term. If we only acknowledged genocides on the scale of the Holocaust and Rwanda, we would overlook some terrible situations in this world and lose our ability to prevent situations from spiralling out of control. On the other hand, if we are too broad in our conceptualization, we could end up labelling everything a genocide, and the term would lose its usefulness. Second, use of the term “genocide” implores one to act. If genocide is going on, something must be done to stop it. This is why, as recently as Darfur, people have opposed use of the term to benefit politically and downplay the human tragedy. And this is precisely why I favor a broader conceptualization of the term. We cannot simply wait until it is too late to call a situation a genocide.

    Well, how bad is the situation in Sri Lanka? An unobstructed view of the numbers is revelatory. Of the 75,000 lives claimed in the ongoing violence since independence, the vast majority (greater than 95%) are Tamil; at least 800,000 Tamils have been displaced all over globe (primarily the result of the 1983 pogrom and systematic government discrimination); and currently there are least 325,000 internally displaced Tamils within Sri Lanka. This would mean that at a minimum, a whopping 40% of the Sri Lankan Tamil population have been directly affected in a significant way by this ongoing conflict. Anywhere between 2-3% of the Tamil population in Sri Lanka have been killed, and the potential exists for this number to increase to anywhere in the range of 7-9% based on the number of civilians trapped in the conflict zone. By comparison, the Guatemalan genocide involved 3% of the Mayan population killed, the Kurdish genocide in Iraq saw 4% of the Kurdish population eradicated, the Bosnian genocide saw 6% of the Bosnian muslim population eliminated, and in Darfur we witnessed 8% of the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur tribes decimated. Must we wait for this percentage to climb before we can label this situation a genocide, or can we act before then?

    The genocide in Sri Lanka is also tougher to name because it does not involve a singularly discernible perpetrator. There is no Hitler or Hussein. Today there is Rajapaske; yesterday it was Jayawardene (“The more you put pressure in the north, the happier the Sinhala people will be here. Really, if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy.” 1983) But close inspection reveals what can be seen to be a slow, insidious genocide. While no official decree bids the killing of Tamils, a culture has been fostered whereby Tamils can be imprisoned, tortured or killed with impunity. Not a single member of the Sri Lankan armed forces has been charged for a crime against a Tamil civilian. The only crimes that go punished are those that involve speaking out against the Government. The common thread that ties the many Sri Lankan governments is the underlying belief that Tamils are interlopers on the island, and that they must not “make undue demands” (Sarath Fonseka). Articles on prominent Sri Lankan websites (e.g., LankaWeb’s “The Only Practical Solution) advocate genocide as the only viable solution to eliminate the Tamil “cancer.” And while the rhetoric of the government is careful not to openly reflect this line of thinking, there is no effort made to suppress these viotriolic forces and the government’s actions certainly leave no doubt in anyone’s minds what their objective might be.

    In defining genocide, Raphael Lemkin (1943) wrote, “Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.”

    The genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka quite plainly fits this description. Since the independence of the island, there has been a carefully coordinated set of actions that were aimed at destroying the essential foundations of life for Tamils, beginning with the Sinhala Only Act in 1956, which deprived Tamils the right to use their language in an official capacity, right through to Standardization in 1976, which deprived Tamils equal rights to education. State-sponsored colonization schemes were then carefully employed to undermine Tamil claims for a homeland and feelings of national solidarity. The burning of the historical Jaffna Library was another such coordinated action aimed at destroying a monumental cultural institution of the Tamils. The organized pogroms of 1956, 1958, 1971, 1977 and 1983 demonstrate a historical continuity to the genocide. The Chenmanni mass grave in 1996 where the bodies of 600 disappeared Tamils were unearthed in the Jaffna peninsula is one of many examples of what happens to Tamil civilians at the hands of the Sri Lankan armed forces even after a military campaign is complete. As a result, the roughly 3,000 civilians that have been killed in the Vanni in 2009 must be seen in the context of the historical genocide perpetrated against Tamils primarily by the Sri Lankan state, although recently also by the LTTE who claim to be fighting on behalf of Tamils.

  • janaka

    Majority of Tamils live in south which are predominantly Sinhala areas. For example Wellawatta and Dhehiwala are densely populated from Tamils which is situated just in suburbs of Colombo. If there is genocide of Tamils then that would not happen. On the other hand if the Sri Lankan Government does not care about the Tamil civilians caught in between, the war would have been over few months ago. It is taking time because government forces are cautious, to minimise innocent Tamil civilian deaths.

    However I have to admit that there was genocide and ethnic cleansing in the North of Sri Lanka. However it was committed by LTTE. Until very recently. LTTE did not allowed any Sinhala or Muslim (or even Tamil who oppose LTTE actions) to live in the North. Further LTTE forcefully recruited children and send them to war, which could be considered as genocide of there own race. But this ethnic cleansing is coming to an end due to successful military campaign of Sri Lankan armed forces.

    Further the demonstrations in London are an exact representation of LTTE terrorist tactics in North of Sri Lanka. Sad part is that it is allowed to happen in streets of London where people believe that the law and order prevails. In Northern Sri Lanka LTTE uses its power on innocent civilians to control them against their will and to disrupt lives of law abiding civilians. Similarly these demonstrators flock the roads of London unlawfully and are disrupting the lives of law abiding UK citizens. They do not have any respect for the law and order of the country they live in. They are holding the London citizens hostage to force the UK government to bend in to their unlawful demands. If the UK government give in to this pressure it will definitely set an example for all other terrorist groups. It is duty of the UK Government to control this situation or otherwise the day The London become lawless no go zone will not be far away.

    However I can understand the reasons for this desperate effort by the demonstrators. But please don’t do this in the name of innocent Tamil people trapped in the conflict zone. The demonstrators should be open and honest to admit that they are trying to save the so called liberator the Prabhakaren and his terrorist outfit. The LTTE supporters took up various slogans at different stages of conflict to attract attention of international community. The Genocide is their last slogan. I am sure this slogan will also fade away as previous false slogans. International community will not be hoodwinked to come to the rescue of the one of the world’s worst terrorist organisations.

  • janaka

    Majority of Tamils live in south which are predominantly Sinhala areas. For example Wellawatta and Dhehiwala are densely populated from Tamils which is situated just in suburbs of Colombo. If there is genocide of Tamils then that would not happen. On the other hand if the Sri Lankan Government does not care about the Tamil civilians caught in between, the war would have been over few months ago. It is taking time because government forces are cautious, to minimise innocent Tamil civilian deaths.

    However I have to admit that there was genocide and ethnic cleansing in the North of Sri Lanka. However it was committed by LTTE. Until very recently. LTTE did not allowed any Sinhala or Muslim (or even Tamil who oppose LTTE actions) to live in the North. Further LTTE forcefully recruited children and send them to war, which could be considered as genocide of there own race. But this ethnic cleansing is coming to an end due to successful military campaign of Sri Lankan armed forces.

    Further the demonstrations in London are an exact representation of LTTE terrorist tactics in North of Sri Lanka. Sad part is that it is allowed to happen in streets of London where people believe that the law and order prevails. In Northern Sri Lanka LTTE uses its power on innocent civilians to control them against their will and to disrupt lives of law abiding civilians. Similarly these demonstrators flock the roads of London unlawfully and are disrupting the lives of law abiding UK citizens. They do not have any respect for the law and order of the country they live in. They are holding the London citizens hostage to force the UK government to bend in to their unlawful demands. If the UK government give in to this pressure it will definitely set an example for all other terrorist groups. It is duty of the UK Government to control this situation or otherwise the day The London become lawless no go zone will not be far away.

    However I can understand the reasons for this desperate effort by the demonstrators. But please don’t do this in the name of innocent Tamil people trapped in the conflict zone. The demonstrators should be open and honest to admit that they are trying to save the so called liberator the Prabhakaren and his terrorist outfit. The LTTE supporters took up various slogans at different stages of conflict to attract attention of international community. The Genocide is their last slogan. I am sure this slogan will also fade away as previous false slogans. International community will not be hoodwinked to come to the rescue of the one of the world’s worst terrorist organisations.