Sadam Hussein was hanged about two years ago for killing at least 145 Kurdish civilian citizens in Iraq. The punishment was shown worldwide to remind that such crimes are severely punishable when carried out by any leader of any country.

In the same week Sadam was hanged, Mahinda Rajapakse and his soldiers killed about 125 Tamil civilian citizens at Vakarai in the Eastern Province, by bombing and shelling indiscriminately. A top UN official was in the area and helplessly watched this massacre.

Numerous incidents of such massacres and brutality of Tamil civilians have been systematically taking place in the North East(NE) of Sri Lanka(SL) for the past two years. Last saturday, in the same manner, in the “safe zone”, at least 370 civilians were massacred by military shells and more than 1000 were injured. Soldiers were instructed to do this war crime.

Sri Lankan state does not allow independent reporters into their “killing fields”. It started this ban also two years ago to blind the International Community(IC) and silence it from protests and action against Tamil genocide, yet information of brutal murders have been filtering out from these “killing fields” to the media.

Mahinda and his government, having spilled abundant Tamil blood, fearing reprisals from the international judicial system, call the very truth as “LTTE propaganda” and not as crime committed by its soldiers.

When Channel 4 in Britain recently reported factual documentary from the affected people in concentration camps run by the military, the government of Sri Lanka(GOSL) called it “LTTE propaganda”. When David Miliband was in Colombo, Mahinda Rajapakse called the neutral reports by BBC journalists also as “LTTE propaganda”.

If LTTE is being “defeated” as the GOSL says, how could it become increasingly powerful in its propaganda?

Psychologists call such false utterances as halucinations arising from a fearful or insane mind. Here, the insanity is caused by thirst for the blood of fellow human beings and fear is for the court in the Hague for the war crimes committed.

Telling lies to propagate untruth and remain brutal has become a recent political culture in the region. Even neighbouring Mahatma Gandhian principled country said it did not provide military assistance to SL. But Ranil Wickremasinghe, the leader of the opposition in SL confirmed in an interview with the weekly “Time Now”, a few days ago, that India does provide military assistance.

Has humanity become passive and permissive to genocide? Have we lost the ability to care for and protect fellow human beings? The Tamil civilian killer actions by the Sri Lankan state and inaction by the UN and IC for the past two years answer the questions affirmatively.