3. Entire Tamil Nation rallied behind LTTE and carry out armed
struggle for independence.
75,000 civilians died: 97% of them were Tamils, killed by the Sri
Lankan armed forces.
Tamils sacrifice 18,000 youths to regain our lost sovereignty
from Sri Lanka.
LTTE becomes a formidable Tamil military force and the sole-
representatives of the Tamil people, regains control of significant
areas of the North- East, and establishes civil administration
services.
1983 – 2002
Tamil Nation behind LTTE
ARISE ROBY
4. TAMIL NATIONAL MILITARY(LTTE)
a Conventional Tamil Armed Force.
(Ground Forces, Naval Force, Air Force, Police, Intelligence Service)
ARISE ROBY
5. 2002
Norwegian-mediated ceasefire
2002 February - Government and Tamil Tiger rebels
sign a Norwegian-mediated ceasefire.
De-commissioning of weapons begins; the road
linking the Jaffna peninsula with the rest of Sri
Lanka reopens after 12 years;
passenger flights to Jaffna resume. Government lifts
ban on Tamil Tigers. Rebels drop demand for
separate state.
ARISE ROBY
7. 22 February 2002 ceasefire agreement
Signed between GOSL & LTTE
…forward defence localities (borders)
have been established, the Sri Lankan
armed forces and the Liberation
Tigers’ fighting formations shall hold
their ground positions…
…Neither Party shall engage in any
offensive military operation nor shall
move munitions, explosives or
military equipment into the area
controlled by the other Party.
“
”
LTTE Northern Com. Col. Theepan &
SL Northern Com. Maj. Gen. Fonseka
[at the northern FDL February 2002]
ARISE ROBY
8. 25 November 2002 THE OSLO DECLARATION:
Signed between GOSL & LTTE
„…the parties have agreed to
explore a political solution
founded on the principle of
internal self-determination
in areas of historical
habitation of the Tamil-
speaking people, based on
a federal structure within a
united Sri Lanka.‟
the following diplomats were at the ceremony
US Deputy Sec. of State Mr. Richard Armitage, Norwegian Foreign Minister Mr. Jan Petersen,
UK Sec. of State Ms. Claire short, Japan Special Envoy Mr.Yasusi Akashi
LTTE‟s Dr. Anton Balasingham,
GOSL‟s Prof. G.L.eiris,
at the Oslo Conference, 25 November 2002
ARISE ROBY
9. 2002-2005
BROKEN AGREEMENTS
1. Dissolving High Security Zones – Withdrawing military
from Houses, School, Worshiping places (February 2002)
2. Sub-Committee for Immediate Humanitarian and
Rehabilitation Needs in the North and East (SIHRN) (February
2002)
3. North East Reconstruction Fund (NERF) (November 2002)
4. Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA) (31 October 2003)
5. Post Tsunami Operational Management Structure
(PTOMS) (June 2005)
ARISE ROBY
10. November 2005
Election of President Rajapakse
Campaign promises:
No recognition of Tamil Homeland or right to Self-Rule.
No to Federal Solution
No to International Mediation
Rajapaksa was elected as President by the
Majority of Sinhala people.
ARISE ROBY
11. 2005 Mahinda Rajapaksa,
elected president
2005 November - Mahinda Rajapaksa,
prime minister at the time, wins presidential
elections. Most Tamils in areas controlled
by the Tamil Tigers do not vote.
On unitary form of government pledge
ARISE ROBY
12. Supported by Extremist Buddhist Monks Party (JHU),
view Srilanka as a Sinhala-Buddhist nation, Burning Norway Flag
Associated Press Photo November 2005
November 2005
Election of President Rajapakse
ARISE ROBY
13. After the Election of President Rajapakse
ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE
by the SL Armed Forces and Government sponsored Paramilitary.
47 humanitarian workers were kidnapped and killed.
5 Tamil Parliamentarians were assassinated.
Many leading Tamil Journalists were murdered.
Hundreds of Tamils were abducted for ransom & killed.
17 Humanitarian Workers of a French NGO (AFC)
Murdered by SL Army in an execution style on 5 August 2006
ARISE ROBY
14. AUG 2006
Ceasefire Monitoring mission- EXPELLED
Chief of the Ceasefire Monitoring mission
Maj. Gen. Ulf Henricsson :
"I have experienced this in the Balkans before.
When you're not let in,
it's a sign that there's something they want to
hide". [ Reuters; 12 Aug 2006]
ARISE ROBY
15. SL government de-merged the Tamil Homeland. (North-East)
Sri Lanka government officially unilaterally abrogated Ceasefire Agreement from January 16,
2008
Sri Lanka government is intensifying a full scale war on the Tamil Homeland to impose Military
Solution & calling it “War on Terror”
No credible political solution is under discussion by SL government.
Tamil civilians being targeted: Disappearances, Daily aerial bombings, Road-side bombs, Shelling,
Extra-judicial killing.
Over 5000 Tamils have been killed since election in
November 2005 to 2008.
Average of 7 Tamils killed daily
After Election of President Rajapakse:
2005 - 2008
ARISE ROBY
16. Violence after Election of President Rajapakse
Targeted Killing of Tamil Civilians
Mother raped and killed. Children brutalized and Hanged.
Father forced to see all these, and shot dead. (Venkalai, 9 June 2006)
ARISE ROBY
17. Violence after Election of President Rajapakse
Targeted Killing of Tamil Civilians
A Government minister acknowledged it, and argued,
“There is nothing wrong in killing future child soldiers”.
• Sri Lankan jets
bombed a
children's home in
Mullaithivu
• 67 schoolgirls
and 7 teachers
were killed
• 129 were
wounded when
(14 August 2006)
ARISE ROBY
18. 2006 -2007 east of srilanka re-
occupied by Sinhala army
2006 August - Tamil Tiger rebels and
government forces resume fighting in the
north-east in worst clashes since 2002
ceasefire. Government steadily drives
Tamil Tigers out of eastern strongholds
over following year
ARISE ROBY
19. June 2007 forced expulsion of Tamils
from Colombo
2007 June - Police force hundreds of
Tamils out of the Sri Lankan capital
Colombo, citing security concerns. Tamils
are herded into state owned buses in the
early hours of a morning and deported to
Tamil Eelam.
A court orders an end to the expulsions.
ARISE ROBY
20. Sinhala government pulls out of the
6 year old ceasefire agreement
2008 January – Sinhala Government pulls
out of 2002 ceasefire agreement.
Begins expelling foreign NGOs to remove
independent witnesses to the atrocities.
ARISE ROBY
21. March2008- international panel,
monitoring human rights abuses, leaves
2008 March - International panel, invited
by the government to monitor
investigations into human rights abuses,
announces that it is leaving the country.
Panel member Sir Nigel Rodley says the
authorities were hindering its work.
Sinhala Government rejects the criticism.
ARISE ROBY
22. January 2009-Sinhala government
captures Kilinochchi
2009 January – Sinhala
Government troops re-occupy the
northern town of Kilinochchi, the
administrative capital of Tamil
Eelam
President Mahinda Rajapakse calls
it an unparalleled victory and urges
the LTTE to surrender.
ARISE ROBY
23. Media reports on genocide
The Associated Press23/02/09
Sri Lankans Who Escaped War
Zone Now Fenced In
Sri Lankan civilians tell of
harrowing escapes from war
zone, complain about
government camps
By RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press Writer
MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka February 23, 2009 (AP)
A Sri Lankan security personnel stands
guard at a transit camp for ethnic Tamil
civilians (AP)
BBC 02/03/09
In a briefing to the UN Security
Council a few days ago, its
humanitarian chief, Sir John
Holmes, said the restrictions on the
movement of civilians into and out of
the camps were unacceptable
Behind barbed wire
ARISE ROBY
24. Canadian Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs 05/03/09
The 37-year conflict raging in Sri Lanka was
borne out of "repressive" governments in
Colombo, Canadian Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs said Thursday.
"I am sure all Canadians share the government's
revulsion at the continuing humanitarian
catastrophe in Sri Lanka, a civil conflict born of a
succession of repressive Sri Lankan
governments, which in turn spawned the terrorist
organization known as the Tamil Tigers," Kent
told the House of Commons.
ARISE ROBY
25. According to what the UN called
credible sources, more than 2,800
civilians may have been killed
and 7,000 others wounded in the
fighting over the last two months.
Hundreds of children are believed
to have died,
Ms Pillay said, and more than a
thousand have been injured.
genocide
killings and maiming , part of Sinhala Srilanka's strategy
ARISE ROBY
26. reducing the population of Tamils is
part of the Sinhala strategy
The conflict has killed an estimated 70,000
people, displaced thousands more and held
back the growth and economic
development of Tamil Eelam.
if this is not Genocide what is ?
ARISE ROBY
27. Secretary Clinton calls
president Rajapkse March 13 2009
Secretary Clinton called on
President Rajapaksa to devise a
political solution to the ongoing
conflict.
urged the President to give
international humanitarian relief
organizations full access to the
conflict area and displaced
persons camps, including
screening centers.
ARISE ROBY
28. 60 Years... The result:
More than 100,000 Tamils Killed and Disappeared
More than 20,000 Tamil orphaned children
More than 35,000 Tamil widows
Hundreds of Thousands of schools, houses, hospitals, churches,
temples, villages and livelihood destroyed.
More than 600,000 Tamils Internal Refugees
Nearly 1 Million Tamils made to flee the country
Fighting for Survival is NOT Terrorism…
If this is not ETHNIC CLEANSING, then what is?
ARISE ROBY
29. BBC REPORT
13 March 2009
UN fears Sri Lanka 'war
crimes'
UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
Navi Pillay called on the two warring
sides to suspend hostilities immediately
in the island's north-east.
Describing the level of civilian deaths as
"truly shocking", she warned it could
reach "catastrophic" levels.
ARISE ROBY
30. Kosovo & Tamil Eelam
What is good for Kosovo is good for Tamil Eelam
ARISE ROBY
31. • When Portuguese took
possession of the island
in 1505 there were 3
Kingdoms
• Tamil Kingdom in the
North-East - Tamil
Homeland - (yellow)
• Sinhalese Kingdoms in
the South-West (grey).
Reminding the History
ARISE ROBY
32. Two nations in one island
"Two different nations, from a very
ancient period, have divided between
them the possession of the Island: the
Sinhalese inhabiting the interior in its
Southern and western parts from the
river Wallouwe to Chilaw, and the
Malabars (Tamils) who possess the
Northern and Eastern Districts. These
two nations differ entirely in their
religion, language and manners."
Sir Hugh Cleghorn, British Colonial Secretary, June 1879
ARISE ROBY
33. The Future… struggle?
The conditions under which the Tamil nation agreed to live with the Sinhala nation under a
single constitution were unilaterally breached by the Sinhala nation using its majority. The
Sinhala nation has time and again shown that it will continue to use its majority to oppress
the Tamils and will expect the Tamils to accept what they thrust upon them.
As long as the Tamil Nation is occupied by the Sinhalese the Tamils will always
be second class citizens in their own land. The Tamils refuse to be second
class citizens in their our own land.
Tamils and Tamils alone will decide how we will be ruled.
We will fight until we win our freedom to rule ourselves by our
own democratic will
ARISE ROBY
