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Welcome to Tamils Against Genocide
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July 3, 2009
Sri Lankan authorities appear to be building permanent camps to house many of the 300,000 refugees from the last phase of the war with the Tamil Tiger rebels, despite promising to resettle 80 per cent of them by the end of the year.
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July 3, 2009
[Editors note: The dire conditions of internment in camps that are home to well over a quarter of a million fellow citizens are unknown to many. Fears of inflammatory and inaccurate journalism, as defined and seen by the government, debar independent media from access to these camps even after the end of war.
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July 3, 2009
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population as the island‘s civil war ended; on what scale and with what intentions? Martin Shaw explores the difficult terrain where war, atrocity and genocide meet.
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June 23, 2009
Nearly 5000 Internally Displaced (IDP) children in Vavuniya camps are malnourished, a charity that works in Menik Farm IDP camp says.
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June 23, 2009
The health ministry in Sri Lanka says that over 4000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Vavuniya camps are suffering from eye diseases.
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June 18, 2009
The formal justice system and adhoc Commissions on Enquiry to check grave violations of human rights has been proved ineffective in combating impunity. The latest of these attempts is a Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into 16 cases of “serious violations of human rights”. In more than half of these cases, violations
are alleged to have been committed by Sri Lankan government forces in the context of its operations against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
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June 17 2009
A doctor working with injured and displaced Tamils in northern Sri Lanka tells Channel 4 News that there may be as many as 20,000 amputees among those who fled last month's routing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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June 15, 2009
Sri Lankan intelligence has always been extremely good at torture - Sunila Abeysekera, Executive Director,Information Monitor(INFORM)
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June 15, 2009
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief lent credence Friday to the possibility of war crimes in Sri Lanka, saying an international investigation is needed to examine the military actions of the government and defeated Tamil Tiger rebels during the civil war.
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June 15, 2009
Calls Increase for Independent War Crimes Investigation in Sri Lanka - International Law Prof Blog
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June 15, 2009
More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final throes of the Sri Lankan civil war, most as a result of government shelling, an investigation by The Times has revealed.
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June 15, 2009
India was accused yesterday of complicity in the killing of an estimated 20,000 civilians in the last stages of Sri Lanka’s 26-year war against the Tamil Tigers - Timesonline
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June 15, 2009
LONDON (AFP) — Children are being abducted, with tacit government approval, from camps housing those displaced by Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, human rights groups charged Thursday.
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June 15, 2009
EU foreign ministers have called for an independent inquiry into alleged war crimes by Tamil Tiger rebels and Sri Lanka's government.
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Bruce Fein TVI Interview
February 4th 2009
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"Tamils under existential threat" - Jan Jananayagam BBC Interview
February 4th 2009
In an interview with BBC's Lyse Doucet in Tuesday's Newshour program, British member of the US-based group Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), Jan Jananayagam, says, "[g]enocide by UN definition is an attempt to destroy in part or in whole an ethnic group. I think that what is going here becomes perilously close to at least destruction at least in part," and adds that the "existential threat to Tamils" in Sri Lanka has to be immediately recognized to avoid mistakes made in Rwanda where obstruction to recognition of genocide early resulted in the loss of thousands of lives.
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Sri Lanka: Tigers' Issue Ending? (Press TV)
April 19th 2009
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April 15, 2009
Thousands of Tamils urge UN to run the “Safe Zone” to stop the slaughter; Invoke Responsibility to Protect.
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March 13, 2009
Bruce Fein, former Associate Deputy Attorney General and counsel for a Washington-based Tamil activist group, responding to a "white paper" on the current situation in Sri Lanka written and distributed to the media by Patton Boggs LLP, the Washington Law firm retained by the Government of Sri Lanka for advocacy work in the U.S., said, the "[p]aper is a collection of lies or misrepresentations calculated to conceal the ongoing genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes perpetrated against Tamil civilians by Sri Lanka’s armed forces," and "fails to discredit a single one of the more than 1,000 genocidal incidents marshaled in the model genocide indictment."
Patton Boggs: White paper on Sri Lanka -
Bruce Fein's detailed response
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March 15, 2009
Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), filed a complaint against Secretary of the US Treasury, Timothy Geithner, and the US Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Meg Lundsager, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to obtain a "declaratory judgment that a failure of the United States to oppose Sri Lanka’s pending $1.9 billion IMF loan application would constitute a violation of 22 U.S.C. 262d," Monday at 6:00 p.m. Filing can be accessed by refering to Docket No: 09-0598, according to Bruce Fein, counsel for TAG.
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Sky NEWS: Sri Lankan defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa tells SkyTV
March 30, 2009
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BBC NEWS : Sri Lankan government on Journalist Murder
March 30, 2009
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USA Democracy Now
March 30, 2009
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March 15, 2009
Digital copy of TAG Executive Summary and Destruction of Tamil Community in Sri Lank are now avilable for you to download.
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Fein invites Patton Boggs for debate on Sri Lanka genocide
March 14, 2009
Bruce Fein, counsel for Tamils Against Genocide, has invited Patton Boggs law firm for a debate at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. "You are clearly the most fitting advocate to defend the President of Sri Lanka and his inner circle against credible allegations of genocide under the GAA. But if you believe you are unqualified to defend against the genocide accusation, I would be eager to debate a substitute chosen by your client," Fein said in his invitation. Patton Bloggs, a well-known lobby firm in Washington, has been retained by the Government of Sri Lanka to provide legal representation, according to the filing with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act."
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US Congressman supports review of Gotabaya, Fonseka indictment
March 4, 2009
Congressman Walter B Jones representing North Carolina's 3rd District, in a letter of support sent to the United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, said that the "Department of Justice must take care to review all issues brought to its attention," in the model indictment submitted early February, and requested that the Justice Department to "review this document thoroughly." Congressman Jones serves in the House Committee on Armed Services and in the Committee on Financial Services.
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Sri Lanka war crimes under U.S. spotlight
February 26, 2009
The uncontradicted testimony of Dr. Anna Neistat, Human Rights Watch, in Tuesday's U.S. Foreign Relations Subcommittee Hearings of Sri Lanka concluded that the "Sri Lankan Armed Forces are guilty of war crimes, including the indiscriminate shelling of areas packed with displaced Tamil civilians and of hospitals; the use of imprecise multi-barrel rocket launchers; acute or complete restrictions on humanitarian aid; the operation of militarily controlled “concentration camps” for Tamil civilians without freedom of movement or communications or adequate medical or other assistance," said Bruce Fein, in a letter sent to the Subcommittee following the Hearings.
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TAG's Mission Under Scrutiny
February 25, 2009
The journalists’ club officials say they received death threats after an initial plan to invite a spokesman for the Tamils Against Genocide (TAG) group to join the panel was downgraded to a highlighted spot in the audience. Though the threats had nothing to do with TAG, organisers felt that a debate about whether charges of genocide had legal credence without a Sri Lankan government respondent would be one-sided.
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TAG Mega Rally Washington, DC
February 20, 2009
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Thousands Rally to Urge Obama to Stop Genocide in Sri Lanka
February 18, 2009
Washington, D.C. February 20, 2009 – Tamils Against Genocide is organizing a rally this Friday, Feb. 20th, to urge President Barack Obama to end the genocide in northern Sri Lanka, where Tamils have been systematically attacked and brutalized since the government ordered international aid agencies out of the region last September. Tamil civilians have come under intensive artillery shelling, aerial bombardment and gunfire in the conflict zone in Vanni, with hundreds being killed daily.
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Letters Sent to the Editor: Sri Lankan genocide overlooked.
February 7, 2009
Re: "Families Hurt by Sri Lanka War View Army Offensive With Hope" (News report by Emily Wax, February 7, 2009, A8)
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Investigation of U.S. citizen and U.S. green card holder for genocide, war crimes, and torture against Tamils in Sri Lanka
February 5th 2009
Bruce Fein, counsel for US-based group Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), Thursday afternoon 3:00 p.m. submitted to United States Attorney General, Mr Eric Holder, the Model Indictment charging U.S. citizen and Sri Lanka's Defense Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and U.S. green card holder and Sri Lanka's Army Commander, Sarath Fonseka, for genocide, war crimes and torture against Tamils in Sri Lanka. The Counsel urged the Department to open a grand jury investigation into the crimes, based on evidence amassed in the three volume 1000-page document which the Counsel said "amply satisfies the Department's threshold for commencing a criminal investigation."
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Srilankan Ethnic Crisis - Lecture by Bruce Fein
January 24, 2009
Bruce Fein, former U.S. Deputy Associate Attorney General and currently counsel for the Tamils Against Genocide, addressing a select gathering of media persons and intellectuals organized by the Max Foundation in Chennai
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