Extra-judicial killings of Trinco-5 students by SL military – 7th Anniversary

The names and the dates of birth of the five students killed at the big harbor town under the control of and heavily garrisoned by the Sri Lanka security forces are: (i) Ma

Dr Manoharan says in his affidavit submitted to the District Court of District of Columbia as part of the complaint to the case against Rajapakse, that he “personally believe[s] that these murders were carried out by the STF [Special Task Force] under the supervision of Superintendent of Police [SP] Kapila Jayasekara.”
Oral arguments in the U.S. case is likely to be scheduled during January, legal sources in Washington said. The U.S. State Department has used in discretionary powers to support Rajapakse under Head of State Immunity who has been “charged” with committing war-crimes in the civil action.
In a classified memo written by US’s Sri Lanka Ambassador Robert Blake in October 2006 to Washington, ten months after the extra-judicial execution of five students, Basil Rajapakse, had told Ambassador Blake that Special Task Force (STF) was responsible for the killings, according a Wikileaks document.
The relevant text contained in the memo follows:
Ambassador Blake tells Washington that Rajapakse’s “candid response…laid the foundation for a pragmatic relationship with the [US] embassy.”
Dr Manoharan, in March, rejected Colombo’s proposal in Geneva that Colombo would reopen investigations into the killing of the Trinco students, and the 17 aid workers at Muthoor saying that Colombo’s assurances are another ploy to buy time to sidestep incriminating the alleged killers, the Special Task Force (STF). Dr Manoharan added that, while there were serious flaws in the Commission of Inquiries that completed investigations of the Trinco students killing, Colombo, before attempting to mislead the world again, should first release the CoI report that might contain useful details into the identity of his son’s killers.
Amnesty rally held April 2012 in NYAmnesty International has been campaigning in Western capitals highlighting the impunity of the SriLanka military which was allegedly behind the killings of the students. In April 2012, Amnesty International human rights activists, including many high school students from the New England area, held a rally in front of Sri Lanka UN Mission, where the protesting students demanded Colombo to bring perpetrators of the crime to justice.
