Initial Support Jean Ziegler, Professor at the University of Geneva Rev. Alexander Reid, Ireland All Supporters We, a group of scholars with extensive research experience in South Asia and/or inter-community relations as well as human rights activists from different European countries, are deeply dismayed over the recent decision of the EU (26th September 2005), to
Appeal to citizens in Europe, and to their political representatives the MP’s and MEP’s, to make an open stand against the full scale military onslaught on the Vanni, Sri Lanka, that is taking place now with terrible humanitarian consequences for the Tamil speaking population who have decided to live in this area. Moreover, to demand
On 18 September 2006 the German police raided a demonstration at the Brandenburger Tor and picked out all boards on which the Tamil speaking demonstrators had written (in German): “The EU ban of the LTTE promotes the war in Sri Lanka”. Evidently it was forbidden to demonstrate against the EU. However the French police did
1. The Joint Motion mentions twice the figure of 60,000 deaths since 1983. This figure is unconfirmed. Nobody knows its origin. It has mainly been passed on from one journalist to another. It is a typical journalist statement that seems irrevocable. The LTTE has declared 17,948 dead fighters, and it is said that there have
The Austrian Presidency on behalf of the European Union announced the decision taken on May 29th by the Council of the European Union to list the LTTE as a terrorist organisation. As a result, paragraph one of the Declaration orders the immediate freezing and banning of financial and other economic resources that could directly or
Documentation of the statement of the Council of the European Union to ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as a terrorist organisation [ .pdf file ]
Statement of the International League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples (LIDLIP) about the Srilankan Tamil’s right to self-determination [ .pdf file ]
To the European Union Copies to: The World Council of Churches Assembly in Porto Alegre, political and community leaders and the press. 22.02.06 Today, for the first time after three years, face-to-face talks between delegations of the Sri Lankan government (GoSL) the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is taking place in Geneva. For enabling
Some years ago it was politically correct to start a presentation of the LTTE by characterising it as a “ruthless” organisation. Many intellectuals have fallen in line with this trend, including myself. It was a kind of entry ticket to sober academic and human rights’ circles. Today, under American influence, “ruthless” has been replaced by
