Genocide charges against two members of defence set up- Morning Leader on the Model Indictment proposal to Department of Justice by Fein NEXT YEAR:

Genocide charges against two members of defence set up:

(ONLY PROBLEM IS THIS SO CALLED "MODEL INDICTMENT" MIGHT BE VERY MISLEADING
AND ONLY JUST BE A FUND RAISING TOOL BY THE ATTORNEY AND SOME TAMILS):

Genocide charges are to be filed against two top members of the defence establishment for alleged genocide of Tamils in the country and the model indictment will be ready to be submitted to the US Justice Department next month, January 2009.

One member who has been charged, is a US citizen and the other a permanent resident.

The model indictment has been prepared by Bruce Fein, a Harvard Law School scholar and a member of the Lichfield Group, former U.S. Deputy Associate Attorney General and currently counsel for a U.S. Tamil Group.

In an interview with Tamilnet, Fein said that a model indictment of over 400 pages, charging Sri Lankan officials for genocide against Tamils in the country will be submitted to the U.S. Justice Department first week of January.

Fein has explained that one official is a US citizen and the other, a permanent resident for whom the United States was responsible as moral, political and legal matter.

"The model indictment will be presented to the new United States Attorney General appointed by President Barack Obama and the new Secretary of State. The two appointees hold the keys to a genocide prosecution, which only the government can initiate," Fein had said in his interview with Tamilnet.

Fein had also said that the genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils had now become mainstream thinking in Tamil Nadu, and several countries and said that it explained in part the country’s eviction from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

"Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have also been vocal detractors of Sri Lanka’s human rights atrocities," he has said.

Sri Lanka was last week placed among the top eight countries in a list of 33 countries involved in genocide and other mass atrocities.

The list by New York-based Genocide Prevention Project was released to mark the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Prevention of Genocide Convention.

Sri Lanka was included in the ‘Red Alert’ list along with countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.