Genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka
Tamil Genocide தமிழர் இனப்படுகொலை Tamil Civilians are being displaced from parts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu Districts as a result of the Sri Lanka Army's military offensive in September 2008.
Location Sri Lanka Target Sri Lankan Tamils Attack type
Genocide , ethnic cleansing , mass murder , mass shooting , hate crime
shelling , hostage taking , forced disappearance , denial of humanitarian aid , summary execution , rape , land grabbing , colonization Deaths 1956–2009 : 154,022 to 253,818 Tamil civilians killed:[1]
1956–2001 : 79,155 Tamil civilians killed: 54,044 killed + 25,266 disappeared forever (TCHR, 2004) [2]
2002–2008 Dec : 4,867 Tamil civilians killed: 3,545 killed + 1,322 disappeared forever (Pro-rebel NESOHR )[3]
2009 Jan–May : 169,796 Tamil civilians killed (ITJP, 2021) [4]
2009 Jan–May Tamil civilians killed & unaccounted: 40,000[5] to 70,000 (UN )[6] [7]
Injured 1956–2004 : 61,132 Tamil civilians[2] Victims 1956–2004 : Tamil civilians[2]
Raped: 12,437 women
Arrest/Torture: 112,246
Displaced: 2,390,809
Perpetrators Sri Lanka Armed Forces , Sri Lankan government , Sri Lanka Police , Sinhalese mobsMotive Anti-Tamil sentiment, Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism , Sinhalisation
The Tamil genocide, also known as the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide, or the Eelam Tamil genocide , refers to the various acts of physical violence and cultural destruction committed against the Tamil population in Sri Lanka during the ethnic conflict, particularly the Sri Lankan civil war . Various commenters have accused the Sri Lankan state of responsibility for and complicity in Tamil genocide and point to state-sponsored settler colonialism , state-backed pogroms , and mass killings, enforced disappearances and sexual violence by the security forces as examples of genocidal acts.[8] [10] [11] [12] [13] The conflict and its brutal end have sparked an international debate and they have also led to calls for accountability and justice.[14] [15] [16]
^ WP:CALC from below
^ a b c "Recorded figures of Arrests, Killings, Disappearances" . www.tchr.net . Retrieved 17 March 2023 .
^ "Collection of NESoHR's Human Rights Reports 2005-2009" (PDF) . NESHOR . p. 659-861.
^ Death Toll In Sri Lanka's 2009 War https://itjpsl.com/assets/ITJP_death_toll_A4_v6.pdf
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^ "Report of the Secretary-General's Internal Review Panel on United Nations Action in Sri Lanka" . United Nations . November 2012. p. 14. Retrieved 22 March 2021 .
^ Macrae, Callum (3 September 2013). "Sri Lanka: Slaughter in the no fire zone" . The Guardian . London, U.K. Retrieved 22 March 2021 .
^ Kingsbury, Damien (2012). Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect: Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide . Routledge. pp. 82–93. ISBN 978-0-415-58884-3 .
^ MacDermot, Niall, ed. (December 1983). "THE REVIEW" (PDF) . ICJ Review (32). International Commission of Jurists: 24.
^ Veerasingham, Ramanan (11 December 2013). "Sri Lanka guilty of genocide against Eelam Tamils with UK, US complicity: PPT" . Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) . Retrieved 2024-05-07 .
^ Harman, William (1 July 2021). "Dying to be Remembered: Tamil Warriors' Desecrated Burial Plots (Tuyilum Illam) in Sri Lanka's Civil War" . Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies . 6 (1): 66–87. doi :10.36886/nidan.2021.6.1.5 .
^ "Sexual Violence in Conflict: Sri Lanka" . Tamil Guardian . 8 June 2014. Retrieved 2024-05-07 .
^ Waldock, Charlotte (26 June 2022). "The Tamilian Struggle For Justice In Sri Lanka: Acknowledging The Tamil Genocide" . Human Rights Pulse . Human Rights Pulse, Make justice a priority. Retrieved 21 March 2024 .
^ "Still No Justice on Sri Lanka War Anniversary | Human Rights Watch" . 16 May 2023.
^ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (22 June 2022). " 'We want justice, not fuel': Sri Lanka's Tamils on north-south divide" . the Guardian . Retrieved 7 May 2024 .