Appointment of Silva not only signals a likely death for the peace and justice process, but also further increases the very real threat to the lives of Tamils<\/p>\r\n
This appointment is a staggering affront to international community, especially the United Nations Human Rights Council, which worked with Sri Lanka in good faith for years to make peace a reality \u201d<\/strong>\r\n\u2014 Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)<\/strong>\r\nNEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, August 20, 2019 \/EINPresswire.com\/ —<\/p>\r\n \u201cMajor General Silva\u2019s appointment confirms that the only way to get justice for the mass killings of Tamils by Sri Lankan Army troops under General Silva\u2019s command is through either the International Criminal Court (ICC) or through an International Criminal Tribunal on Sri Lanka established by the UN\u201d<\/p>\r\n “UN reports detailed what ensued in May 2009 at the hands of Major General Silva\u2019s 58th Division of the Sri Lankan Army as war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the mass killing of over seventy thousand Tamils in six months, forced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, rape, the calculated denial of food and humanitarian aid designed to bring about death, the deliberate shelling of hospitals and displacement camps, and torture”<\/p>\r\n \u201cMajor General Silva played one of the most significant roles in perpetuating the Tamil Genocide,\u201d Said TGTE.<\/p>\r\n \u201cThis appointment is a staggering affront to the international community, especially the United Nations Human Rights Council, which worked with Sri Lanka exhaustively and in good faith for years to devise a plan of action to make peace, reconciliation, and accountability in Sri Lanka a reality. Instead, both have been served a platter of betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\r\n Major General Silva was named in a war crimes lawsuit in New York in 2011, dismissed on the grounds of diplomatic immunity. In 2012, Major General Silva was also removed from a UN peacekeeping committee because of these allegations.<\/p>\r\n \u201cThe appointment of Major General Silva not only signals a likely death for the peace, and justice process, but it also further increases the very real threat to the lives of Tamils,\u201d sais TGTE.<\/p>\r\n Twitter: @TGTE_PMO<\/p>\r\n Email: r.thave@tgte.org<\/p>\r\n Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TGTE.Secretariat\/<\/p>\r\n Web: www.tgte.org<\/p>\r\n Web: www.tgte-us.org<\/p>\r\n Web: www.tgte-us.org<\/p>\r\n Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam\r\nTGTE\r\n+1 614-202-3377<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tgte-us.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mail-1.jpg\")
The appointment of Major General Shavendra Silva as the Sri Lankan Army\u2019s new Military Commander – a man named by several UN reports as a war criminal for his role in the massacre and disappearance of tens of thousands of Tamils during Sri Lanka\u2019s conflict – reiterates the urgency to refer Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE).<\/p>\r\n