Walter Lippmann has provided me with the full Cuban perspective on the Sri Lanka report presented to the UN Human Rights Council. This is very useful; the text is in his comment here.
Perhaps the most important points highlighted in the speech are: (1) the new Human Rights Council must embrace operational transparency and cooperative methods if it is to be successful where the old organization was not; and (2) the international community must not only seek to chide Sri Lanka for its human rights record in extremely difficult and devastating times, but should work to provide support in the fight against poverty and underdevelopment in the country.
These are points I neglected in my previous post, and which must be noted.
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Dear sir
Sri Lanka Government’ Nazi-type crimes in the Vanni appear motivated by the doctrine of lebenstraum, and the future survival of Tamil culture in Sri Lanka is in peril,
Concerning these missing 13,130+ genocide-survivors from the Safety Zone, Article 7(1)(i) of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court provides that the “enforced disappearance of persons” is a Crime Against Humanity “when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack,
thank you
m.moorthy
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