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Rutgers Model United Nations 9 universities for Tamils were decreased and the Sinhalese imposed further discriminatory laws. The Sri Lankan government has acted in a way in which they thought was best for their state, without giving consideration to civilian or foreign nation’s opinions. In April 1987, the government organized Operation Liberation, which was a carpet bombing of the north and east part of Sri Lanka that is held by the LTTE. 32 The Sri Lankan government was criticized by foreign leaders for cases of torture, disappearances, and the killing of civilians, but their response was “they had to defend themselves against the militants.” 33 The Sri Lankan government maintained the same attitude, to which Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State for the United States, declared, “The Sri Lankan government knows that the entire world is very disappointed that in its efforts to end what it sees as 25 years of conflict, it is causing such untold suffering.” 34 Clinton was referring to the high number of civilian causalities that have occurred between the fighting of the two groups in April of 2009. The United States insisted that the government stop fighting long enough for tens of thousands of civilians to escape the war torn piece of territory, but the government refused such requests. President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka made a statement to all Western states saying, “The government is not ready to enter into any kind of cease-fire with terrorists. It is my duty to protect the people of this country. I don’t need lectures from Western representatives.” 35 With this attitude, it is clear that the only interest of the Sri Lankan government in the protection of the Sinhalese majority because they are doing little to protect the innocent Tamils who are caught in the cross fires of war. In February of 2009 when the conflict was drawing to an end, the Sri Lankan government created plans to create five “welfare villages” to house Tamils who left the Tamil region of the jungle. The villages are set to have “schools, banks, parks and 32 “History of the Conflict in Sri Lanka,” http://www.pbs.org 33 Ibid. 34 Somini Sengupta, “US Faults Sri Lanka on Civilian Woes,” The New York Times, Aril 23, 2009, Lexis Nexis, http://www.lexisnexis.com 35 Thomas Fuller, “Sri Lanka Rejects Lectures From Western Countries,” The New York Times, May 1, 2009, Lexis Nexis, http://www.lexisnexis.com
Rutgers Model United Nations 10 vocational centres to help to rehabilitate up to 200,000 displaced Tamils after a 25 year civil war.” 36 It will be compulsory for people fleeing the area to live in the camps “until the army which will guard them, has screened them, hunted down the Tigers and demined the area.” 37 They plan to build the camps surrounded by barbed wire, and only those who have relatives on the outside will be allowed to come and go once they have been screened, young and single people will not be permitted to leave. The Sri Lankan government hopes to have 80 per cent of the people relocated by the end of the year. Secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights stated that the placement in the camps will not be voluntary adding, “this is a situation where we’re dealing with terrorists who infiltrate civilian populations… security has to be paramount.” 38 This has been seen as an extreme step and has caused outrage from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, however, Sri Lanka has not stopped plans for the building of these camps. This is an example of how far the Sri Lankan government is willing to go to protect its people and stop the Tamil Tigers from gaining power again. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been fighting for the past 26 years their own free and independent state in the north east part of the country. They have taken any action they felt necessary to achieve their ultimate goal. Velupillai Prabhakaran, founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam stated in a radio address, “Whatever challenges confront us, whatever contingencies we encounter, whatever forces stand in our path, we will still continue with our struggle for the freedom of the Tamil 36 Jeremy Page, “Barbed Wire Villages Raise Fears of Refugee Concentration; Sri Lanka,” The Times London, February 13, 2009, Lexis Nexis, http://www.lexisnexis.com 37 Ibid. 38 Ibid.
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