{"id":2667,"date":"2016-08-30T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgte-us.org\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:59:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:29:50","slug":"tgte-solemnly-marks-international-day-disappeared-remembering-many-tamils-dissappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/?p=2667","title":{"rendered":"TGTE Solemnly Marks the International Day of the Disappeared by Remembering the Many Tamils who Have Dissappeared"},"content":{"rendered":"

TGTE Solemnly Marks the International Day of the Disappeared by Remembering the Many Tamils who Have Dissappeared<\/h1>\r\n
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<\/a>Families of disappeared\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nCOLOMBO, SRI LANKA, August 30, 2016 \/EINPresswire.com<\/a>\/ —\r\n\r\nToday, the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) solemnly recalls the tens of thousands of Tamil citizens who after seven years remain missing and unaccounted for. We share their families\u2019 feelings of frustration and injustice at the Government Sri Lanka\u2019s continued refusal to provide concrete information about the many who disappeared after being detained by Government Forces.\r\n\r\nLast September, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra\u2019ad al Hussein issued a report on the crimes committed in Sri Lanka. In this OISL report he said: \u201cThe phenomenon of enforced disappearance has affected tens of thousands of Sri Lankans for decades during all stages of the armed conflict\u2026with devastating effects on their families, as well as on the wider communities.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe devastating effect of these disappearances has not dissipated over the last seven years. The families of the missing continue to suffer by not knowing what happened to their loved ones. The families continue to be frustrated by the Government\u2019s continued failure to provide concrete information about the missing. The families of the missing deserve more than Prime Minister Wickremesinghe\u2019s off-the-cuff statement earlier this year that the missing, are most probably dead.\r\n\r\nThe TGTE shares the grief of these families and commits itself to work tirelessly to help the families of the missing obtain more information about their loved ones and to secure justice for the crimes committed against them.\r\n\r\n\r\nABOUT TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL EELAM (TGTE):\r\n\r\nTransnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) is a democratically elected Government of a million strong Tamils (from the island of Sri Lanka) living in several countries around the world. TGTE was formed after the mass killing of Tamils by the Sri Lankan Government in 2009.\r\n\r\nTGTE twice held internationally supervised elections among Tamils around the world to elect 132 Members of Parliament. It has a bicameral legislature and a Cabinet. It held one of its Parliamentary sittings in the British Parliament.\r\n\r\nTGTE is leading a campaign to realize Tamils\u2019 political aspirations through peaceful, democratic and diplomatic means. The Constitution of the TGTE mandates that it should realize its political objective only through peaceful means.\r\n\r\nThe Prime Minister of TGTE is Mr. Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, a New York based lawyer.\r\n\r\nContact: pmo@tgte.org; Web:\u00a0www.tgte-us.org<\/a>\r\nTGTE Welcomes Ban Ki Moon\u2019s visit to Sri Lanka. Cautious Him about False promises and hoodwinking by the Government\r\n\r\nBACKGROUND:\r\n\r\nTamils in the island of Sri Lanka faced repeated mass killings in 1958, 1965, 1977, 1981 and 1983 and the mass killings in 2009 prompted UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a Panel of Experts to report on the scale of the killings.\r\n\r\nAccording to UN internal review report on Sri Lanka, over 70,000 Tamils were killed in five months in early 2009 and Tamil women were raped by the Sri Lankan Security forces. There are over 90,000 Tamil war widows and thousands of Tamils disappeared due the conflict.\r\n\r\nAccording to this UN report, the killings and other abuses that took place amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Independent experts believe that there are elements of these abuses that constitute an act of genocide.\r\n\r\nMembers of the Sri Lankan security forces are almost exclusively from the Sinhalese community and the victims are all from the Tamil community.\r\n\r\nA Buddhist Monk shot and killed a Sri Lankan Prime Minister 1959 for having talks with Tamil political leaders.\r\n\r\nTamils overwhelmingly voted in a Parliamentary election in 1977 to establish an independent and sovereign country called Tamil Eelam. This Parliamentary election was conducted by the Sri Lankan Government.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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