Dear Ambassador:

First and foremost, I thank the members of the UN Security Council for bringing forth a discussion on the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka. Every member of the Tamil community and global citizens who are concerned about the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka are grateful to you for the same.

As you are aware, the government stepped up an aggressive military campaign in the North and East of Sri Lanka. Thereafter, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate and various sources reported over 1000 innocent civilian casualties and over 3000 paralyzing injuries since early 2009. Even the government announced ‘safe zones’ and civil infrastructures such as Schools, hospitals, commerce centres, temples and churches continue to be targets for bombing and shelling. The Defence Secretary of the Country, Mr. Gothabaya Rajapakse in a BBC interview, overtly made an appalling statement that hospitals are legitimate targets for military shelling and air attacks.

The Sri Lankan government has expelled international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from providing relief to more than half-a-million Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). Further, all bare essential items including food, medicine, and tents are blocked from going to the people in the displaced areas.

All local and foreign media are barred from travelling to the conflict zone. The few media that are attempting to bring the plight of Tamils in Northern Sri Lanka are killed, abducted, intimidated or threatened. Amnesty International has reported that at least ten media personals had been killed since 2006. Latest known victim of such killings was Mr. Lasantha Wickramatunga, a well respected independent neutral leading journalist, critical of the government’s involvement in corruptions, human rights violations, and violence in the country.

The human rights violations are being tolerated by the international community for far too long under the name of aiding a state to fight a ‘war on terrorism’. If this is allowed to continue, it would be too late when the world realizes another grave mistake was made.

This dire humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka requires urgent intervention of the United Nations. Please help better the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka and request the United Nations to:

Intervene immediately to stop the war and urge for resumption of peaceful negotiations.

Urge Sri Lankan government to allow the NGO’s to serve the people in the affected areas.

Urge Sri Lankan government to allow the access to the independent media.

Urge Sri Lankan government to allow independent human rights monitoring.

Peace activists, NGOs, and the helpless Tamil Diasporas whose kith and kin are annihilated everyday in what we know is a systematic genocide campaign, are clinging on to one and only one thing; hope. Hope, that the UN will intervene and save a race from defacement, starvation and extinction.

Thank you,

Yours Sincerely,

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Austria	Mr. Mayr-Harting	600 Third Avenue, 31st Floor		New York	NY 10016	(917) 542-8400	austria@un.int
Burkina Faso	Mr. Kafando	866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 326/327A		New York	NY 10017	(212) 308-4720	bfapm@un.int
Canada	Mr. John McNee	One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza	885 Second Avenue, 14th Floor	New York	NY 10017	(212) 848-1100	canada@un.int
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Republic of Croatia	Mr. Skračić	820 Second Avenue, 19th Floor		New York	NY 10017	(212) 986-1585	cromiss.un@mvp.hr
France	Mr. Lacroix	One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza	245 East 47th Street, 44th Floor	New York	NY 10017	212-308-5700	france@un.int
Japan	Mr. Takasu	866 United Nations Plaza, 2nd Floor		New York	NY 10017	(212) 223-4300	mission@un-japan.org
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Mexico	Mr. Claude Heller	Two United Nations Plaza, 28th Floor		New York	NY 10017	(212) 752-0220	mexico@un.int
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Turkey	Mr. İlkin	821 United Nations Plaza, 10th Floor		New York	NY 10017	(212) 949-0150	turkuno-dt@un.int
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