Posted on June 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The main
charge against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC is that they deliberately killed
thousands of civilians in the last phase of Eelam War IV. Rajiva Wijesinha was
Secretary-General of the Sri Lankan Government Secretariat
for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) from
2007–2009. In that capacity Rajiva had access to war data.
Rajiva found that
very few allegations of civilian deaths were made to the Peace Secretariat until
the end of January 2009, when for the first time there was allegations of
hundreds killed. In 2008 when forces took Kilinochchi, the total civilian deaths
according to Tamilnet was only 78. It