So what is the Sri Lanka model of Genocide that is indexed in the title of this series of posts? According to Dr. Jude Lal Fernando, a renowned Sinhala peace activist, and scholar, the Sri Lankan Army’s overwhelming and merciless approach to destroying the Tamil Tiger (LTTE) insurgency, in which massive numbers of civilians were massacred in a manner that has been determined to be Genocide by Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, has become a recognized counterinsurgency strategy. An article in the Hindu Students Council of North America states that according to UN reports, between 40,000 and 70,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the first five months of 2009 and that World Bank population data indicates that over 100,000 Tamils remain unaccounted for from these final months of the counterinsurgency. In July 2016, Dr Fernando suggested that this counter-insurgency model has been applied against resistance in Turkey, Israel, and Columbia. While DR. Fernando does not cite sources for this terminology, I find his lexicon meaningful. In my own reframing of this terminology, I mark the the disproportional of the killing of civilians, and posit that this is a strong indication that this killing was not simply a collateral consequence of the counterinsurgency, but an integral part of its objective. In short, Tamil civilians were not distinguished from LTTE cadre deliberately. In light of what is happening in Gaza today, there is no doubt that Israel continues to apply this model, only in the ongoing assault on Gaza, there is the added dimension of stated genocidal intent.
See Applying the Sri Lanka Genocide Model in Gaza
See also the series of posts begining with On Being a Malaysian Tamil 1
Image: https://www.hindustudentscouncil.org/2022/remembering-the-mullivaikkal-massacre-in-sri-lanka/
https://www.ptsrilanka.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ppt_final_report_web_en.pdf
https://hrdag.org/srilanka/
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/frances-harrison/one-hundred-thousand-peop_b_2306136.html
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