{"product_id":"9780986085376","title":"The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law","description":"\u003cp\u003eSri Lanka’s government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the world's most intractable wars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eafter a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecreate a separate homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority. The United Nations said the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econflict had killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people in Sri Lanka since full-scale civil war broke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eout in 1983.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA US State Department report offered a grisly catalogue of alleged abuses, including the killing of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptives or combatants seeking surrender, the abduction and in some cases murder of Tamil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecivilians, and dismal humanitarian conditions in camps for displaced persons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman Rights Watch said the U.S. report should dispel any doubts that serious abuses were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommitted during the final months of the 26-year civil war. The report gains added significance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esince, during these five months, the Sri Lankan Government denied independent observers,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eincluding the media and human rights organizations, access to the war zone, and conducted a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“war without witnesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second edition traces the ongoing engagement in the Sri Lankan conflict of Professor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis A. Boyle, an eminent American expert in international law, from the conflict's last years to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe present pursuit of UN recognition of the Tamil genocide and call for reparations. It is the first\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebook to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunder international law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch charges by an expert like Boyle should not be taken lightly: In 1993, Boyle took the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eremarkably similar case of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the International Court of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustice, setting a historical precedent by winning not one, but two Orders from the Court against\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe rump Yugoslavia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Boyle was among the very few to address the international legal implications of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSri Lankan Government's grave and systematic violations of Tamil human rights while the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econflict was actually taking place, and to excoriate the UN and those significant states and actors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the global community whose failure to prevent it, Boyle charges, amounted to complicity in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egenocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA seminal lecture in the book outlines the legal basis for the Tamils to exercise their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eright under international law to proclaim a Unilateral Declaration of Independence and establish a Tamil state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarity Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035869266160,"sku":"9780986085376","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986085376","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}