Commission on Human
Rights
An Appeal to
The United Nations
Commission on Human Rights
58 Session / Sesiones
18 / 03 / 2002 -- 26 / 04 /2002
Tamil Centre for Human Rights - TCHR
Centre Tamoul pour les droits de l'Homme - CTDH
TCHR participation in United
Nations World conferences
The Tamil Centre for Human Rights (TCHR),
officially participated in the NGO forum of the UN World Conference Against
Racism WCAR in Durban, South Africa, from 28 August to 1 September 2001. TCHR
held an information stall including an exhibition at the forum. The TCHR
representatives also attended the main WCAR conference held in Durban, 31
August to 7 September 2001.
In 1993, the TCHR held an information stall and a photo exhibition on
human rights violations, in the United
Nations 2nd World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna,
Austria, from 14-25 June.
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Contents
Page
TCHR appeal to the 58th session 05
Reports
1- Assassination
of Kumar Ponnambalam?
Presidential
guard organised murder of Ponnambalam “Sunday Leader” 07
Chandrika's 'bloody' secrets in the house of
conspiracy
Report of Senior Superintendent of Police to President Kumaratunga 08
Kumaratunga cornered in Ponnambalam murder 11
Inspector of Police Jayantha Vedasinghe's affidavit 12
We
suspect the PA government
ACTC wants debate on Kumar 13
2- Right to Self Determination
In
a nutshell - The history,
negotiations, abrogation of pacts, military operations, etc 14
Memorandum of Understanding MOU
(2002) 21
Election
manifesto of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) (2001) 24
Suthumalai
Declaration (1987) 25
Thimpu
Declaration (1985) 26
Vaddukoddai Resolution
(1976) 27
North-East
Province Tamil homeland Gajendran Ponnambalam 28
Parliament Election results 5 December 2001 29
Tamil National leader Pirapaharan calls for Norwegian
engagement
LTTE
declare month-long cease-fire 30
LTTE leader makes special
plea to Sinhalese
Comparison of Tamil homeland
(Tamil Eelam) with some UN member states 32
3- Economic
Social and Cultural Rights
Schools in
North East 33
948 religion teacher vacancies
unfilled
70 000 homeless due
airfield expansion
Rebuild 1,600 homes of his supporters 34
Hospital in Tamil areas
'without medicine'
Staff shortage at Jaffna
Teaching Hospital
Killinochchi hospital rebuilding cost more than 1.6
million US$
Easing of economic
embargo is mere eyewash since 1994 35
Murders, thefts and atrocities
increased in Jaffna
4- Civil and
Political Rights
10 Muslims massacred by sons of ex-deputy Minister of Defence 36 Sri Lanka troops remanded over killing of Muslims President Kumaratunga visit murder suspects in Bogambara prison
Kandy massacre appeal for impartial probe 37
Lawyers of 10 dead youths of Kandy deplore ‘lukewarm attitude’ of IGP
Ministerial Massacre 38
State terrorism continues in Sri
Lanka
Former Deputy Defence minister arrested 39
Political Prisoners of Kalutara plead
Chemmani
mass graves
Rape
of Hill Country Tamil women and detention without trial 40
Police abuse
Appeal to new Prime Minister for the release of a
University student 41
University
student suffers torture in Jaffna - Prison conditions
Torture in detention - Amnesty International 42
Detainees' grievances 43
1800 Tamil detainees on hunger strike 44
Land mine victims
Over 10,000 Landmines victims 44
1763 people lost legs in Jaffna
The scars
of Sri Lanka's war 45
LTTE
removes 132,328 APLMs, booby traps
Freedom of Expression
Government
plan to destroy newspapers offices 45
Sri Lankan
presidential statement suggests government killing of journalists 46
Killing
of BBC journalist arrest warrant served only after 14 months 47
Foreign Journalist Marie Colvin escapes attempt on
her life
Election
violence December 2001
Uncleared
area voters 'disenfranchised'-TNA 48
130,000 Tamils kept from voting 49
2
killed and 21 injured in an EPDP attack in Naranthanai
300,000
votes in Jaffna - list of 600,000 sent 50
70,000 PA leaflets flown to Jaffna with army chief help
EPDP
on rampage in Komari
Violence
murdering democracy in Sri Lanka
EPDP
fires on women's march
French
poll monitor attacked in Sri Lanka vote 51
No
re-poll decision not fair by voters, say monitors
EU
monitors appalled by Sri Lankan President's revenge remarks
46 killed 2332 wounded 52
President Security Division -
PSD
President Kumaratunga
advocates blood for blood 52
Letters of resignation from PA MPs?
Murder of
PSD's Al Capone
Giving
special increments to PSD 54
3000
to 4000 men in the PSD to safeguard one individual
Shocking
details of plot to kill ex-minister
PM's life under threat 55
Sri Lanka
police arrest Presidential guards-PSD
CID questions cop who ‘did his duty’
Court in
Sri Lanka ordered arrest of Director of PSD
Plot to assassinate Ranil Wickremesinghe
How a 'top
State secret' became public 56
Ex-Deputy
Defence Minister’s son Chanuka visited safe house
Grounds for impeachment 57
Army deserters
30,000
Deadly army deserters 57
Security
tightened in Sri Lanka 58
Army
deserters gang-raped British tourist
JVP admit killing in thousands
JVP leader
Somawansa admitted killing of 6,000 people 58
Warrant on Somawansa 59
A warm welcome for a murderer
JVP can’t deny they attacked the Dalada Maligawa 60
Residence of the Diyawadana Nilame attacked
UNP used JVP
to kill my husband, President Chandrika tells BBC
Welcome back Somawansa, here’s your
charge sheet 61
JVP
members arrested with bomb ahead of election 62
JVPers
force membership 63
Vasudeva points to "serious threat" of Somawansa
Administration of justice
International Bar Association finds Sri Lanka fails on
three counts 63
LTTE
release 10 war prisoners 64
No law
permits military to stipulate that the
people of Jaffna must obtain a pass
Human
Rights Commission - HRC failure 65
Truth Commission
Death
certificates issued after 6 months 66
Magisterial inquests are not held for Tamils
Sri
Lanka on the Bandwagon
"Lying in state"
New government gently
gone to sleep 67