2. CONTENTS:
• INTRODUCTION
• HUMAN RIGHTS IN SRILANKA
• HISTORICAL CONNOTATION
• SCOPE OF LANKAN'S RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL ARENA
• TIMELINE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES DONE IN LANKA
• CLOSING REMARKS
4. HISTORICAL CONNOTATION:
• INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITISH DOMINION
• HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES STARTED FROM SRI LANKAN POLITICS – THE VOICE OF TAMILS
• ETHNIC CLEANSING IN JAFNA
• EXTREME TAMILS ELIMINATED THE MAIN COLOMBO – TAMIL LEADERSHIP OF TULF
• MILITANTS CLAIMED THEIR RIGHTS
INDEPENDENCE
TRADITIONAL HOMELAND
• THUS, EMERGED – LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM ( LTTE )
• SRI LANKA CIVIL WAR
• BLACK JULY RIOTS – MOST SAVAGE ANTI MINORITY PROGRAM
5. SCOPE OF LANKANS’ RIGHT IN INTL’ ARENA:
• RIGHTS OF ALL HUMAN – SIGNIFICANT
• FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF
oLIVING,
oSELF DETERMINATION,
oFREEDOM OF SPEECH
ARE CRUCIAL ISSUE TO BE STUDIED.
6. TIMELINE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN
SRI LANKA:
• THE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES TIME LINE HAS BEEN DIVIDED INTO TWO CONTEXTS :
oABUSES BY GOVERNMENT
oABUSES BY LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM
7. ABUSES BY GOVERNMENT:
• 1980s: Behind the IT graduates
• 1990s: Disappearances and mass killings
• 2000s:
oEU condemned,
oWhite Vans
• Post war:
oTortures to LTTE assistants,
o62 sexual voilence cases,
onumerous on record witnesses
8. ABUSES BY LTTE:
•Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam have been accused internationally for abusing
human rights more than that of government
•Politically motivated killings
•Disappearances
•Arbitrary arrests and detention
9. CONT.:
•Denial of fair public trial
•Arbitrary interference with privacy
•Denial of freedom of
oSpeech
oPress
oAssociation
oAssembly
10. CONT.:
•Recruitment of CHILD SOLIDERS
•Control of large sections of NORTHERN and EASTERN PROVINCES
•Commiting large number of massacres there like:
oAnuradhapura massacre
oKebithigollewa massacre
oGonogala massacre
oDehiwala massacre
oPalliyagodella massacre
11. CLOSING REMARKS:
•Power and politics – BLOOD GAME
•Both government and militants accuses each others of abuses and violations
•Even after the end of civil war in 2009, ethnic clashes still persists
•Internationally, the government of srilanka which is ruled by the reign of three
brothers holding the important sectors of government like defence economy
and presidentship, is made clear of any strong hard evidences of ruthless
crimes against its people