SNE Thanked NESoHR and Manitham in attempt to document 61 Years Tamil Massacres in Sri Lanka

Statistical center for North East (SNE) thanked for NESHoR and India based "Manitham" human rights organisation on the publication of the book in several languages on 61 years large scale Massacres of Tamils in NorthEast of Sri Lanka, SNE release said.

Statistical center for North East (SNE) and NESoHR worked together in the recording of 61 Years Tamil Massacre in NorthEast of Sri Lanka. After the hard attempt of SNE, was able to released the report "Lest We Forget Part 1" at the end of 2007 and the next report "Lest We Forget Part 2" on July 2008. But the two reports only included the massacres which had been occurred before 2005.

Manitham human rights organisation has come forward to publish the two reports with some updates until the end of 2008 as a book in several languages. In this effort NESoHR is supporting "MANITHAM" and working with them on publication.

The release date for the book to be in December 2009.

SNE is still in active on the recording of Human rights violation against Tamil minority in NorthEast, should be noted.

The SNE release states:

The State sponsored violence against the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka mainly in NortEsat, has a very long history. SNE was established in middle of 2003, in order to record all Massacres in North East of Sri Lanka after the it's independence. The data collection project was started in middle of 2003 follwoing the ceasefire agreement between Sri Lankan government and LTTE. CFA allowed relatively free access to all areas of Northeast and SNE was able to recorded all events with the co-operation of Tamil interlectuals in North East.

Data collection permission was obtained from the District Secretariat (Kachcheri) and the help of the Grama Sevakar was sought to ensure all households were covered. The project was presided by Graduates from NorthEast and data collection team formed for each villages, containing University students and A/L students from North East, had performed a unique visit to each house to ensuring no household in the village is missed in the data collection.

Professors, lecturers and Tamil Diaspora human rights activists advised us on our communication strategy before and during the data collection and provided the vital information about the massacres and related photos kept with them for long period. We also received the evidence of massacres from Journalists, Sri Lankan government staffs, Library officers and several individuals who had been interested on the documentation of Tamil Massacres. Many of those involved in the data collection were received death threat by the Sri Lankan security forces in several occasion. The death threat appears aimed at pressuring the team to stop the recording of massacres in NorthEast. even the teams were actively involved and successfully finished the survey in time. We are thanking those who had supported us in several ways to document the Tamil Massacre in NorthEast of Sri Lanka.

At this time we remember that those who had been working with SNE, were killed in the last stage of war and several were disappeared or killed after screening process by the Sri Lankan security forces with the help of Govt backed para military.

Secretary General
Statistical center for North East (SNE)

2009 December 24

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