Sep 2005
David Selbourne remarked in July 1984
“The crimes committed by the Sri Lankan state against the Tamil minority – against its physical security, citizenship rights, and political representation -are of growing gravity.. Report after report by impartial bodies – By Amnesty International, By the International Commission of jurists, By parliamentary delegates from the West by journalists and scholars – have set out clearly the scale of growing degeneration of the political and physical well being of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka… Their cause represents the very essence of the cause of human rights and justice; and to deny it, debases and reduces us allâ€.