by [unclear, although some analysis is provided by People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) and the document is supported by the Ottawa Tamil Association. the Tamil Genocide Memorial, Tamil American United PAC, the Federation of Global Tamil Organizations, the Ilankai Tamil Sangam, and the Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America (FeTNA)], 2024
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Justice for Sri Lanka’s Genocide Against Tamils – Tamil Conferences
Contents
A Legal Model for Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka
Introduction 5
Section 1: Overview
Section 2: Group Targeting
Section 3: Legal Framework for Tamil Genocide – May 2006-May 2010
Section 4: Kill Box
Section 5: Sri Lanka’s Information Operation (IO) – 2006-2009
Section 6: The Legal Framework – IHL, Genocide Law, Anti-Terrorism Law
Section 7: International Response Failure – 2002-2009
Justice for Genocide: Sri Lanka’s Responsibility for Genocide against the Tamil People in 2009 – Executive Summary by PEARL
118TH CONGRESS 2nd Session H. RES. 1230
Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day – Unanimous motion on May 18, 2022,
at the Canadian Parliament
An Act to Proclaim Tamil Genocide Education Week
Justice for Genocide: Sri Lanka’s Responsibility for Genocide against the Tamil
People in 2009 – Executive Summary by PEARL
The 26-year-long war in Sri Lanka ended on May 18, 2009, when Sri Lankan forces defeated the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE had launched an armed liberation struggle to establish the
separate state of Tamil Eelam in the Tamil homeland in the northern and eastern parts (North-East) of the
island. While two United Nations investigations on Sri Lanka found that Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE
committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, the UN has been silent on genocide allegations.
The number of Tamil people unaccounted for and presumed dead during the final five months of the
war ranged from 40,000 to 169,796, and most civilian casualties were caused by government shelling. The
war ended in Mullivaikkal, a village in the Vanni region in the North- East. These final months are known
as the “Mullivaikkal Genocide.”
This legal briefing paper proves that Sri Lanka is responsible for genocide against the Tamil people
during the final stages of the war in 2009. Specifically, it explains how Sri Lanka is responsible for three
of the five genocidal acts enumerated in the Genocide Convention-killing, causing serious harm, and
deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in
part-committed with genocidal intent, which is the intent to destroy, in part, the Tamil people, as such. The
targeted “part” were the Tamils in the Vanni.
PEARL uses evidence and findings from two UN investigations on Sri Lanka, international NGOs, and
international media, and it makes legal conclusions based on “reasonable grounds,” the standard that UN
human rights investigations have used to determine genocide in other contexts5.