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Parents of missing blast Pillay, TNA

Parents and family members of the missing service personnel and civilians addressing the media

In the wake of the media hype over accountability issues being raised against Sri Lanka and the second US resolution against it coming up in a few days, at the ongoing 22nd sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the newly formed Dead and Missing Persons Parents' Front (MPPF), yesterday, addressing the media in Colombo, criticised United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, for siding with the Tamil Diaspora and Tamil National Alliance (TNA), who should be held accountable for the loss of their loved ones from 1987 to 2009, numbering as many as 12,000 civilians comprising Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims.

A heart-broken father from Vavuniya, S. Kandasami, whose two sons, Thawaraja and Sawaraja, were taken forcibly by the LTTE in 1993 and 1996, respectively, when they were twelve-year-old schoolboys, asked the UNHRC, to speak on behalf of them and to take necessary action against the LTTE's political arm, the TNA, that was directly responsible for the missing people in the North and East, as they were engaged in the propagation of the Eelam cause, having taken the oath from the LTTE leadership.

He told media that the three communities shared the same fate in those days and now they used Tamils as their survival shield, to please economically hit developed countries, for their benefit.

An irate 28-year-old woman, whose only brother was forcibly taken away by the LTTE while he was hiding inside a bunker, made by the parents in their home, said that LTTE cadres, one night, entered their house by removing the tiles of the roof and took her brother away. She asked media to bring such incidents to the knowledge of the world, especially to the heads of UNHRC and also to question them about why they did not look into how Tamil people were made to suffer by the LTTE, their so called liberators.

While ordinary Tamils suffered to no end, she said that the children of the LTTE leaders like, Susei and Thamil Chelvam enjoyed the security of Sri Lankan army even at the height of the war to go to schools whereas they were forcibly recruited to be cannon fodder.

They said that they could no longer bear the injustice happening at every UNHRC session with only Sri Lanka getting a one sided battering, whereas the actual culprit was the TNA itself.

The Convener of the front, Ananda Perera and a Muslim father, whose sons were brutally hacked to death in front of him by the LTTE, showed media the pictures of their sons before they were killed. An army captain shared his views on the horrific attacks on civilians by the LTTE and about the loss of his own son who was a major.

They also said that a letter demanding justice to their missing and dead would be forwarded to the UNHRC in the coming weeks and also to the Speaker of parliament. The members of the front, led by the convener, handed over a letter on their plight to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on March 6 at Temple Trees. There were many victim family members present at the media conference from all three communities.

Courtesy : The Island