USAG: INDICTMENT CHARGES AGAINST SINHALA DEFENCE SECRETARY AND SINHALA ARMY CHIEF!!! 3750 EJ TAMIL KILLINGS+10000 INJURED+ 1.3 MILLION TAMIL IDPS!!!

Tamil lobby Counsel files indictment charges with US Attorney General


WASHINGTON/PRNewswire-AsiaNet A 12-count indictment on charges for genocide has been filed with Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice last Saturday, against Sri Lanka’s President’s brother Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Army Commander Sarath Fonseka.Bruce Fein, Former Deputy Asst. Attorney General during the Reagan Administration, filed the indictment under the U.S. Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 (GAA). Both are charged with command responsibility for genocidal deaths perpetrated by their subordinates in the Sri Lankan security forces.Fein asserts that this is the first genocide investigation and prosecution under the GAA. The GAA applies to genocide irrespective of the place of its occurrence.


Rajapaksa and Fonseka are U.S. citizen and green-card holders, respectively.The indictment charges Rajapaksa and Fonseka with genocide of Tamils in twelve discrete geographic areas of Sri Lanka between December 6, 2005 (when both men assumed their government positions) to the present. The indictment chronicles more than 3,750 extrajudicial killings, with 10 000 suffering bodily injury and more than 1.3 million displacements.


Fein states, “These numbers far exceed displacements in Kosovo which lead to genocide counts before the Intl. Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.”Fein, counsel for the groups Tamils Against Genocide and newly formed Tamil Legal Defense Fund, expects that the filing of the indictment will prompt victims’ families to file suits against Rajapaksa and Fonseka on behalf of victims under the Torture Victims Protection Act of 1991.
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