CONTENTS
OF THIS SECTION
Last updated
06/06/07 | | Human Rights Watch Report & Sri Lanka Foreign Minister - Victor Rajakulendran 23 March 2006 | | Sachi Sri Kantha - Disssecting the Semi-fictionalized Survey of Jo Becker, 22 March 2006 | | Funding Peace & Dignity - a Response to Human Rights Watch - International Federation of Tamils, 18 March 2006 | | A Response to Human Rights Watch - Ana Pararajasingham, 18 March 2006 | | International Educational Development at UN Commission on Human Rights, March 2006, "United States has substantial interests in Sri Lanka, especially as the United States seeks to expand its role and power in Asia...Understanding the interests of the United States in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka goes a long way to explaining the United States’ overt actions in relation to the conflict in Sri Lanka, the most prominent being its harsh rhetoric against the Tamils and their leadership under the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)..." more | | US based think tank Stratfor, 14 July 2004 "...The plan is to destabilize the Tigers, bait the group into confrontation and ultimately launch an offensive aimed at destroying the fractured Tamil movement once and for all," the analysts at Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) said quoting unnamed sources inside the Sri Lankan government....Colombo probably hopes a renewed guerrilla war will be tempered by internal struggles and that, once weakened, the Tigers can be destroyed, the US analysts said....According to the US analysts, in the event of a renewed war “the Tigers will likely end up weaker - perhaps no longer in a position to make the demands for autonomy that helped cause the internal strife in the first place.” |
| Human Rights Watch Report:
The Conclusion & Some of the Facts "எப்பொருள் யார்யார்வாய்க் கேட்பினும்
அப்பொருள் - மெய்ப்பொருள் காண்ப தறிவு" "Whatever may be said, whosoever may say it
- to determine the truth of it, is wisdom" - Thirukural
| | Conclusion by Human Rights Watch... | "...LTTE’s use of intimidation, harassment, extortion, and even physical violence against members of the Tamil diaspora is effectively stifling Tamil dissent regarding ongoing LTTE human rights abuses in Sri Lanka...." Conclusion of Jo Becker, sometime Washington Post journalist and currently Human Rights Watch Advocate, Human Rights Watch Report entitled , "Funding the 'Final War' LTTE Intimidation and Extortion in the Tamil Diaspora" 14 March 2006 | | Who is Human Rights Watch?... | From the Human Rights Watch Website - " Around 150 professionals work for Human Rights Watch around the world. They are lawyers, journalists, academics, and country experts. Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. ... Human Rights Watch started in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, to monitor the compliance of Soviet bloc countries with the human rights provisions of the landmark Helsinki Accords. ..To maintain our independence, we do not accept financial support from any government or government-funded agency. We depend entirely on contributions from private foundations and from individuals like you..."
Note by tamilnation.org It will be helpful if Human Rights Watch adopted a more transparent approach to its funding sources and declared the identity of all the private foundations and individuals who fund it. This is particularly important not only because HRW holds itself out as an 'independent human rights organisation' without a political agenda, but also because unlike Amnesty International, HRW is not a mass membership organisation. It will also be helpful if HRW discloses the way in which its Directors and Executive officers are chosen - whether they are elected or appointed - and by whom. Those outside HRW will then be able to judge for themselves the extent, if any, of the direct or indirect influence that US government agencies and US foreign policy, may have on the approaches adopted by Human Rights Watch from the days when it was Helsinki Watch and monitored the compliance of Soviet bloc countries with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords. The case of the writer Stephen Spender and the funding of the British opinion magazine Encounter is one of many that come to mind. [see also Who is behind Human Rights Watch? - Paul Treanor and Human Rights Watch as a Political Instrument of the Liberal Cosmopollitan Elite of the United States of America - Oleg Popov, 16 November 2004 ]
| | ... & Some of the Facts relating to the HRW Report titled "Funding the 'Final War' LTTE Intimidation and Extortion in the Tamil Diaspora" | "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"....in Toronto, Canada, September 2004 |
| | "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"....in London Excel, Royal Victoria Dock, London, November 2004 | 
| | "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled" .... in Switzerland, Greeting LTTE Delegation, 2006 | 
| "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled".......in Essen, Germany, 2005 | 
| | "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"...in Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005 |  
| | "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"... in Palermo, Italy, 2005 | 
| | "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"...in Herning, Denmark, 2005 | 
| "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"...in Oslo, Norway, 2005 | 
| "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"...in Toronto, Canada, 2005 | 
| "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"...in Melbourne, Australia, 2005 | 
| | "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"...in Sydney, Australia, 2005 | 
| "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"...in South Africa, 2005 |  
| | "Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled" ... in Geneva, April 2004 | 
| and, ofcourse ...."Intimidation and Extortion, Harassed and Stifled"... in Tamil Eelam, 2005 | 
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