Modern Genocides: Sri Lanka

      Humans are capable of unending kindness and merciless cruelness. Humanity, it appears, has not learned the lessons that the Holocaust left, that there is no limit to human suffering.11 million people died in during the Holocaust and yet instead of ending the suffering, today there are still atrocities among the human race in our "modern genocides". 

     
      Since 1976 to 2009 the country/island of Sri Lanka, which is located of the coast of India, has been in a civil war. The two combatants have been a rebel extremist group called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LITE) and the Sri Lanka Military. Tamil Tigers where formed to help bring creation of a separate Tamilstate in the north and east of Sri Lanka. They are the only terrorist group to assassinate Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993 and former Indian Prime Minister Rajive Gandhi in 1991. What was originally a military operation to fight over territory and rights much like our own civil war turned into the biggest conspiracy and cover up in modern history.


     In 2009 the Sri Lankan government set up a "no-fire zone" or "free-fire zone" where refugees of the war could "live in peace". What really happened was that the Sri Lakan Military and LITE used this as their shelling grounds to try and end the war. 150,000 of civilians were trapped when the government that was meant to save them killed them in order to destroy LITE. Worldwide outcry of disdain came out once the Sri Lankan government admitted to the shelling of the area on May 1st of 2009. 
      
     So many innocent lives lost over a war that should have never happened in the first place. it is a shame to the human race to believe that we have "learned" and "moved on from the Holocaust" but we obviously haven't. 
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                                                             My other Sources   

"Is the World Ignoring Sri Lankaâuc0€uc0™ Srebrenica?" The Lede Blog. Web. 01 Mar. 2012. <http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/is-the-world-ignoring-sri-lankas-srebrenica/>. 


"Sri Lanka Profile." BBC News. BBC, 25 Jan. 2012. Web. 01 Mar. 2012. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12004081>. 


"Sri Lanka: US War Crimes Report Details Extensive Abuses | Human Rights Watch." Human Rights Watch. Web. 01 Mar. 2012. <http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/22/sri-lanka-us-war-crimes-report-details-extensive-abuses>.