Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect

Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law

Sri Lankaâ€™s government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the worldâ€™s most intractable wars after a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to create a separate homeland for the countryâ€™s ethnic Tamil minority. The United Nations said the conflict had killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people in Sri Lanka since full-scale civil war broke out in 1983. A US State Department report offered a grisly catalogue of alleged abuses, including the killing of captives or combatants seeking surrender, the abduction and in some cases murder of Tamil civilians, and dismal humanitarian conditions in camps for displaced persons. Human Rights Watch said the U.S. report should dispel any doubts that serious abuses were committed during the final months of the 26-year civil war. The report gains added significance since, during these five months, the Sri Lankan Government denied independent observers, including the media and human rights organizations, access to the war zone, and conducted a â€œwar without witnesses.â€ This book traces the ongoing engagement of international lawyer Francis A. Boyle during the last years of the conflict. Boyle was among the very few addressing the international legal implications of the Sri Lankan Governmentâ€™s grave and systematic violations of Tamil human rights while the conflict was taking place. This is the first book to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka under international law.
Country USA
Manufacturer Clarity Pr
Binding Paperback
EANs 9780932863706
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Clarity Pr
Binding	Paperback
EANs	9780932863706
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law

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