'A chance emerging to bring prabhakaran to international criminal court ' says Paul Harris

'A chance emerging to bring prabhakaran to international criminal court ' says Paul Harris

Paul Harris, one time Jane's Intelligence Review reporter in Colombo, Sri Lanka who was banished from the island by the government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for exposing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said, now there is a possibility emerging for the international illegal court to bring Velupillai Prabhakaran before fairness for for myself choosing boys aged 14- 16 as suicide bombers, among other crimes.
He wrote in the South China Morning Post, "Earlier this year I wrote that the huge dream of the global Criminal Court was to end the centuries-old state of affairs where the law has been, in the words of Jonathan Swift, "a spider's web which catches small flies but from which wasps and hornets break free". With group at last in northern Sri Lanka, there is lastly a possibility that a big and malevolent hornet will be brought to justice."
Writing why Prabhakaran should be brought to justice Paul Harris wrote, "Whatever good reason there might have been for the demand for "Eelam" has been completely removed by the immoral conduct of the Tiger leadership. Operating a unbending totalitarian system of which Stalin would have been proud, the Tigers have methodically hunted down and assassinated prominent Tamils who supported a united, multi-ethnic Sri Lanka. Well before al-Qaeda popularised the suicide bomb, this form of terrorism was pioneered by the Tigers, who have also made wide use of child soldiers and of child suicide bombers. Prabhakaran is said to for myself choose boys aged 14 to 16 for staffing to the "Black Tigers" suicide bomb squads."
The following is the full text of the article by Paul Harris:
"It is heartening to read that the Sri Lankan army has recaptured much of the country in northern Sri Lanka detained for many years by Velupillai Prabhakaran's Tamil Tigers.
A decisive victory by Sri Lankan government forces would at last bring calm and a return of wealth to the war-torn country, and strength also offer the view of fairness for one of the world's most ruthless terrorist masterminds.
"Few people keep in mind that, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Sri Lanka was documented as a leading Asian country, both in terms of economic enlargement and educational levels. It was identified in the 1980s as an "Asian tiger" which seemed to have the possible for the similar sort of growth that has distorted Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong.
"What went wrong is much doubtful, but there is little doubt that the administration of President Junius Jayawardene in the 1980s bears a serious responsibility for intentionally increasing majority Sinhalese bias against Tamils as a political tool. Equally, reckless social attitudes on the part of the Sri Lankan ruling class led successive governments to abandon the plight of the poorest, leading to rising desperation, in turn feeding the rise of extremism.
"I studied Sri Lankan politics as an international observer for its 1994 general election. A few political facts overlooked in the propaganda crossfire merit mention. First, Sri Lanka, despite many shortcomings, is a strong democracy. Elections there are better organised and more punctiliously scrutinized than in Hong Kong. Second, a majority of Sri Lankan Tamils have always supported parties that favour continuance of a united Sri Lanka.
Despite massive intimidation and terrorism by the Tigers, parties supporting division of the country have by no means had more than minority support among Tamils. The Tigers' demand for a separate northeastern homeland of "Eelam" is an undemocratic attempt by a minority to power its will on the majority.
"Whatever justification there strength have been for the insist for "Eelam" has been completely removed by the depraved conduct of the Tiger leadership. Operating a rigid authoritarian system of which Stalin would have been proud, the Tigers have systematically hunted down and assassinated prominent Tamils who supported a joint multi-ethnic Sri Lanka. Well before al-Qaeda popularised the suicide bomb, this form of terrorism was pioneered by the Tigers, who have also made wide use of child soldiers and of child suicide bombers. Prabhakaran is said to for myself choose boys aged 14 to 16 for staffing to the "Black Tigers" suicide bomb squads.
"Earlier this year I wrote that the great dream of the International Criminal Court was to end the centuries-old state of affairs where the law has been, in the words of Jonathan Swift, "a spider's web which catches small flies but from which wasps and hornets break free". With movement at last in northern Sri Lanka, there is lastly a chance that a large and malevolent hornet will be brought to justice."