Animals have more decency; Rape of a 9-year old Tamil girl by Sri-Lankan Soldiers

I am disgusted, disgusted because humans are capable of such violence. Sri-Lankan soldiers raped a 9-year old Tamil girl. 9-years old. She is a child, not only has she not reached her intellectual capacity, her body has not reached its physical growth. Yet, some sadistic soldiers thought they should rape her. I’m not a feminist, but I believe women have rights, and I believe I have a right to my body, I believe that I own my body, and no one has the right to tough it without my permission. I also believe that the sub-humans who rape anyone, let a 9-year old girl deserve to be punished in the worst way possible.

Opinion: “Our Lives Began to End The Day We Become Silent About The Things That Matter”

This is an article I came across, it highlights on an important issue; that the voices of resistance are silenced in Sri-Lanka by the Sri-Lankan Government, thus, the international community and medias have a greater responsibility to speak out against oppression and human rights violations. Makes sense right, if those who are speaking out against atrocities in Sri-Lanka are being targeted, then we, the international community need to work twice as hard, one for those who are being silenced in Sri-Lanka, and one as our duty. I love Martin Luther King Jr.’s quotes, “Our lives began to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” And, it’s quite true- we should not just wake up everyday, go to work/school, and come home and spend some time on the internet, some with our family and go to bed.

In Search of Humanity – ‘Manithaththai thedi’ – Feb. 19

For the last 3 months, there are 246 Tamil asylum seekers with 30 children on board a boat in Merak Indonesia. They are presently being denied asylum in Australia, their original destination. Over 100 of the people on board already have refugee documentation from the UNHCR. 24 are in the final stages of refugee documentation, and the rest are waiting for the UNHCR process. They are suffering from ill health and are without access to medical supplies and the basic amenities. One man has already died form lack of adequate medical attention. We are imploring Australia to process their cases on Australian soil with medical treatment and supplies and adequate nutrition. Sending them back to Sri lanka, is condemning them to torture and death.

Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1919-2000

Until the young Justice Minister Trudeau’s Criminal Law Amendment Act 1968-1969 was passed laws in Canada against homosexuality had been draconian, attaitudes harsh and homosexuality almost invisible.

Sexual Violence and Sri Lankan State Sovereignty

What has taken place in Sri Lanka this year marks a historical turning point. The liberation struggle against the Sri Lankan occupation of the homeland of the Tamil people is at a stand still and has suffered a debilitating blow. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group formed to fight for the rights, recognition, and freedom of the Tamil people and homeland (Tamil Eelam), had previously controlled areas of the North and East of the island now under occupation of the Sri Lankan state. The Sri Lankan state has moved hundreds of thousands of troops into the region and continues to hold 250, 000 Tamil people in concentration camps. Tamil people are terrorized and humiliated by the government as it proceeds to build settlements on Tamil owned land and take over the homes and businesses of people who fled the fighting in what can only be described as the violent colonization of Eelam.

It takes 3.

It takes 3. It takes 3 types of people for genocide to occur: the bully, the bystander and the bullied. There could be no genocide without a Hitler, a Hutu Power, A Rajapaksa – the genocidaires. These are the planners, instigators, and perpetrators, who plan instigate, and/or take an active part in the genocide.

Genocide and Women

Women have been targeted in genocide; the destruction and degradation of their bodies havnne been used as an instrument of genocide. In many cultures, women are the ones who bear the honor of their societies. Targeting their honor, and defiling a women’s body is a way in which perpetrators of genocide can terrorize a community. Raping women produces three outcomes perpetrators hope will happen:

Gendercide and Genocide

An important part of genocide is gendercide. Gendercide has been carried out in Bosnia, and recently in Sri-Lanka. It is a way of controlling the reproduction of a targeted population. Ethnic cleansing has been