Summing up the facts established before this Tribunal by reports from NGOs, victims’ testimony, eye-witnesses accounts, expert testimony and journalistic reports, we are able to distinguish three different kinds of human rights violations committed by the Sri Lankan Government from 2002 (the beginning of the CFA) to the present:
- Forced “disappearances” of targeted individuals from the Tamil population;
- Crimes committed in the re-starting of the war (2006-2009), particularly during the last months of the war:
- Bombing civilian objectives like hospitals, schools and other non-military targets;
- Bombing government-proclaimed ‘safety zones’ or ‘no fire zones’;
- Withholding of food, water, and health facilities in war zones;
- Use of heavy weaponry, banned weapons and air-raids;
- Using food and medicine as a weapon of war;
- The mistreatment, torture and execution of captured or surrendered LTTE combatants, officials and supporters;
- Torture;
- Rape and sexual violence against women;
- Deportations and forcible transfer of individuals and families;
- Desecrating the dead;
- Human rights violations in the IDP camps during and after the end of the war:
- Shooting of Tamil citizens and LTTE supporters;
- Forced disappearances;
- Rape;
- Malnutrition; and
- Lack of medical supplies.