புதிய ஆதாரம்...கொல்லப்படுவதற்கு முன்னர்,பாலசந்திரன்( தேசியத்தலைவரின் 12 வயது கடைசி மகன்)கையில் சிற்றுன்டியோடு சித்திரவதையை எதிர் நோக்கிய பயத்தோடு...

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புதிய
ஆதாரம்...கொல்லப்படுவதற்கு முன்னர்,பாலசந்திரன்( தேசியத்தலைவரின் 12 வயது
கடைசி மகன்)கையில் சிற்றுன்டியோடு சித்திரவதையை எதிர் நோக்கிய பயத்தோடு...

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இயன்றவரை உனக்காய்,நமகாய்,உன்னைப்போல ஏதுமறியாமல் எங்கள் இனத்தில்
பிறந்ததுக்காய் இளமையில் வித்தாய் போனவர்களுக்காய் முடிந்தவரை
போராடுவோம்... :'

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Handed a snack, and then executed: the 12-year-old son of a Tamil Tiger
Photographs show boy was held before he was killed at close range.
Andrew Buncombe Monday 18 February 2013

Warning: Some may find the second image in the accompanying gallery distressing

New photographs have emerged which raise fresh questions about the
conduct of Sri Lanka’s armed forces during the final stages of the
operation against Tamil rebels and have led to claims the 12-year-old
son of the militants’ leader may have been summarily executed.

A
series of photographs taken a few hours apart and on the same camera,
show Balachandran Parabhakaran, son of Villupillai Prabhakaran, head of
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). One of them shows the boy
sitting in a bunker, alive and unharmed, apparently in the custody of
Sri Lankan troops. Another, a few hours later, shows the boy’s body
lying on the ground, his chest pierced by bullets.

The images
were taken in May 2009 at the very end of the Sri Lankan government’s
operation to crush the LTTE, which had launched a bloody, decades-long
insurgency against the state that led to the deaths of perhaps 70,000
people. The authorities always said Parabhakaran’s son was killed in
cross-fire, as troops moved in to take the LTTE’s last stronghold,
located on a scrap of coastline near Mullaitivu in the north-east of the
country.

But the images, contained in a new documentary, No
Fire Zone, which will be screened at the Geneva Human Rights Film
Festival during the UN Human Rights Council meeting in March, suggest
the boy was captured alive and killed at a later stage.

A
forensic pathologist who examined the later images for the film-makers,
said the boy was shot five times in the chest. Furthermore, propellant
burns around the wound suggest he was shot at very close range.

“The new photographs are enormously important evidentially because they
appear to rule out any suggestion that Balachandran was killed in
cross-fire or during a battle. They show he was held, and even given a
snack, before being taken and executed in cold blood,” claimed the
film’s director, Callum Macrae.

“It is difficult to imagine the
psychology of an army in which the calculated execution of a child can
be allowed with apparent impunity. That these events were also
photographed and kept as war trophies by the perpetrators is even more
disturbing.” The 12-year-old’s father, Prabhakaran, was killed along
with most of the senior leadership of the LTTE as Sri Lanka’s army
advanced on the rebels’ position. There were reports at the time that
several LTTE officials were shot and killed as they tried to surrender.

Prabhakaran’s body was displayed on state television, part of the front
of his skull missing, also suggesting he may have been shot at close
range. The Sri Lankan authorities have always denied shooting anyone who
was trying to surrender. Last night, Brigadier PR Wanigasooriya, an
army spokesman, said Sri Lanka had been a repeated victim of “lies, half
truths, rumours, and numerous forms of speculations”.

“No
substantive evidence have been presented for us to launch an
investigation,” he added, referring to alleged human rights abuses.

Sri Lanka has always insisted it did what it could to ensure no
civilians were killed during its operation against the LTTE. Yet a team
appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon found that up to 40,000
civilians may have been killed. The team said there were credible
allegations both sides committed war crimes.

The photographs
will place additional pressure on David Cameron to announce whether or
not he will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM),
e in Sri Lanka in November. A Downing Street official with Mr Cameron
on his visit to India said on Monday that no decision had yet been
taken.

NGOs and organisations, among them the cross-party
Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, have called on him to boycott the
meeting.

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