To,

Hon. Ban Ki-Moon

UN Secretary General

Your Honour,

Sub:- Their hearts are like that of animals, with no sense of humanity.

We strongly condemn the UN for using it as a  ‘Dumping Ground’ for the war criminals and mass murderers. It’s a shame and disgrace to allow the mass murder planners like Vijay Nambiar, Palitha Kohona and the mass murderers like Shavendra Silva to step into the UN.


Continuing its investigations into Sri Lanka’s war crimes, Channel 4 News broadcast Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 interviews with the Sri Lankan army officer and trooper from Brig. Shavendra Silva’s 58 Division. Channel 4’s report concealed their identities.

This is what Brig. Silva, now Sri Lanka’s representative to the UN in New York, told his gathered troops:

“This is a very decisive day for us because last night I got a call from the defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He told me that we only have a small chunk of land left to capture. Do whatever it takes- finish it off the way it has to be done."

The officer also told Channel 4: "We received orders from the top to kill some of those who surrendered. All regiments received the orders unofficially – from the top."

Meanwhile, another Sri Lankan soldier with the 58 Division has given an eyewitness account of an orgy of mass murder, rape, torture and mutilation in the final days in which tens of thousands of Tamil civilians perished. "They shot people at random. Stabbed people. Raped them. Cut out their tongues, cut women’s breasts off. I have witnessed this with my own eyes," he said.

Secretary Gotabaya’s order to “"to finish the job by whatever means necessary,” was understood as a license to kill, the soldier said.

Below are extracts from the account of the soldier, referred to in the Channel 4 report by the name ‘Fernando’, of what happened:

"When I look at it as an outsider I think they’re simply brutal beasts. Their hearts are like that of animals, with no sense of humanity.”

"They shoot people at random, stab people, rape them, cut their tongues out, cut women’s breasts off. I have witnessed all this with my own eyes. I have seen small children laying dead," he continued.

"I saw a lot of small children, who were so innocent, getting killed in large numbers. A large number of elders were also killed.

"They were shooting when a large number of civilians were crossing through a lagoon, including women and children. The soldiers were shooting at them. They were not Tiger cadres, just normal civilians. So yes, I saw normal civilians getting killed with my own eyes.

http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-war-crimes-soldiers-ordered-to-finish-the-job

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=34232

There’s a prima facie evidence, that crimes against humanity in grave breaches of Geneva Convention were committed. They were committed through the principle of command response ability directed by both military and civilian leaders. All of this is sufficient in now triggering a responsibility by the international community to bring to justice to investigate and need be bring to justice these individuals who committed these most heinous crimes.

Thank you.

Yours respectfully

Perampalam Kanapathipillai -  Cordinator

Kumarathasan Rasingam -  Director

Selvarajah Ramupillai – Director

Thiyagarajah Sivasundram – Director

Ms Umadevi Sivasundram – Director

Ms Valthuruthamma Vethanayagam – Director

Vijayakanthan

N Swaminathan