Rape exists in every culture. But can you say there is a ‘rape culture’ in Buddhist or Christian society?

The young Tamil men that will go on trial for this case have the same rights as every Sri Lankan. As you say, the courts will decide their fate. Not those violent sons and daughters of Eelam we saw protesting – is that’s what we are going to call what they were doing – in Jaffna.

If you had read the article above, you would know that the men that have been charged for the rape and murder of Vidya were Tamil men from northern Sri Lanka. That should be proof enough for you. Your ‘proof’ relates to an alleged incident in Haiti. This has nothing to do with troops deployed in northern Sri Lanka.

It’s not race bias to say that these things happen in Hindu society more often that in Buddhist or Christian society. Delhi – the Indian capital – is called the ‘rape capital of the world’. That’s a fact. The Dravidian sphere has generally been less prone to these kinds of events (although there have been cases of rapes in ashrams in southern India as well). As has become evident over the past six years, the situation in northern Sri Lanka is far worse. A generation of young men raised by Prabakaran’s amoral regime are now wreaking havoc there. Extortion, murder, rape…you name it, they’re doing it. The lands that once constituted the ‘Eelam’ realm are now just about ‘rape central’ in the Dravidian sphere. This is a major emerging problem for the country as a whole. It’s unfortunate that some people are more concerned about getting political mileage out of it than actually trying to solve it.

Please stop beating about the bush. I am not talking of “allegations”

I gave you a link of the crimes done by the military (including child rape) in Haiti. That is PROOF. The SL military itself accepted that crimes took place in Haiti (including child rape).

You talk of allegations of Hindu Tamil men. So going by your own arguments, they are allegations and they are innocent until proven guilty.

Now show me your PROOF that these Hindu Tamil men committed these crimes !
If you cannot show PROOF then I can conclude these innuendos are simple a result of your own race bias !

Look, Fitzpatrick. In any civilized country, the accused are innocent unless they are proven guilty. I don’t need to show you anything. The accused don’t need to show you anything. Internal investigations have found that many of the claims made against military personnel are unsubstantiated. There was ONE case late last year where credible evidence of sexual misconduct was uncovered. The soldiers involved are now being prosecuted. And I reiterate that Hindu-Tamil men are behind most of it. This trend didn’t start with the end of the Tigers in ’09. We hear about these things now because the Colombo government has lifted the Tigers’ veil, and the condition of northern Tamil society is there for all to see. I suspect that, as the Tamils’ confidence in the authorities grows, more and more of these cases will be reported.

“Tamil nadu has always been our greatest enemy.”
Sinhala Buddhism is the REAL ENEMY. Start practising Buddhism.
“Picture worth Thousand words” – BUT not this one.

When I saw the Documentary re- Sexual Violence in Sri Lanka, it was extremely hard to swallow if Humanity can do such a thing. But after Vidya’s case, I’m not surprised about the Documentary:

http://nofirezone.org/sexual-violence

Only real conscience can overcome this!

Can you show me evidence of your claim where military were falsely accused?

As for my evidence, I suggest you read the UN reports. In fact not only were the military implicated in rapes in northern SL but also in HAITI when sent as peacekeepers including CHILD rape !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_Haiti

Now I await your proof of false allegations.

Fitzpatrick, indeed there is a major problem with rape in northern Sri Lanka. But this is more to do with the local population. The perpetrators, generally, are locals and the cases, generally, are not reported to the authorities (possibly because of the social stigma that victims face in Hindu society, or because they don’t trust the Sinhalese-Buddhist authorities). In many cases, allegations made against military personnel have been found to be false upon investigation (even in some of these cases, the real perpetrators were found to be Tamil-Hindu men.