INVITATION TO LAUNCH OF THE JUDGEMENT
25th September 2023 at 4pm (Central European Time)
Hybrid Meeting:
medico international
Lindleystr. 15
60314 Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
Zoom: ID: 937 233 6030, Passcode: TCPCJ (or 512711)
This is the third tribunal session convened jointly by the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka and the International Human Rights Association Bremen under the auspices of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal. This session considered two major themes:
- • Genocide as the absolute oppression of women with full testimonies of participants
- • The importance of countering the terrorism narrative of the USA and UK, and whether their own role in breaking the 2002 Peace Process goes beyond complicity and continues through providing international impunity for the genocide of Eelam Tamils.
Chair of the panel of judges Ana Esther Ceceña (Professor, UNAM Mexico) will announce the tribunal’s verdict concerning the following accusations:
- • The USA is primarily responsible for the genocide against the Eelam Tamils by committing the “Crime Against Peace”, intentionally undermining the 2002 ceasefire, through interventions designed to strengthen social, political and military forces opposed to a negotiated agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTT) for shared sovereignty of the island, leading to a “total war” strategy to destroy the LTT.
- • USA-led UN Human Rights Council Resolutions on Sri Lanka violate Tamileelam rights by failing to recognise their right to exist as a people, continue to criminalise their resistance and shield from scrutiny the main perpetrators of crimes against Eelam Tamils, such as the USA.
- • The USA, in seeking to destroy the LTT, is guilty of violating the rights of Tamil women and their right to be protected from rape and genocide.
- • Sri Lanka continues to violate the fundamental right of Eelam Tamils to exist as a people, through acts of genocide as defined by the UN Genocide Convention, as well as structural genocide through an army of occupation in the north and east of the island.
- • EU states, such as Germany, that adopted the policy of banning the LTT in 2006, are violating the fundamental rights of Eelam Tamils, including their right to resistance, through the ongoing prosecution of Tamils in exile for their support to the LTT during the SL Peace Process.
- • Destruction of LTT threatens peace in the Indian Ocean with ramifications for the nations of that region, but also to world peace in the context of the USA’s ‘pivot to Asia’ strategy.
The Panel of Judges:
- Chair: Ana Esther Ceceña – Director of the Observatorio Latinoamericano de Geopolítica
- Junaid S. Ahmad – Director, Centre for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality, Islamabad
- Flavia Carvalho – Associate Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court
- Lonko Juana Culfunao Paillal – A leader of the Mapuche indigenous people in Chile
- Father Javier Giraldo Moreno – Vice-President of Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal and Colombian liberation theologian
- Liza Maza – Former member of the Philippine House of Representatives
- Denis Halliday – Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Lourdes Esther Huanca Atencio – President of the National Federation of Peasant, Artisan, Indigenous, Native and Wage-earning Women of Peru
- Feliciano Valencia – Nasa indigenous leader and former Colombian senator
- Gianni Tognoni – Secretary General of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in Rome
The full tribunal report will be published on www.pt3lanka.org
For more information contact [email protected]
For background on the PPT see www.permanentpeoplestribunal.org