Birleşmiş Milletler İçerisinde Sri Lanka’da Geçmişte Yaşanan Silahlı Çatışmanın Hukuki Tanımı Konusundaki Erga Omnes Anlaşmazlık

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 3, 81 - 113, 23.12.2017

Mehmet Şükrü Güzel

Abstract

Sri Lanka’da yaklaşık 30 yıl süren çatışma ortamı, 2009 yılının mayıs
ayında Tamil Elam Kurtuluş Kaplanları’nın (LTTE)
askeri mağlubiyetiyle sona ermiştir. LTTE, 32 ülkede terörist örgüt olarak kabul edilmiş ve yasaklanmıştır. LTTE,
intihar bombacılığı eylemini kusursuzlaştırmış, intihar yeleğini geliştirmiş ve
kadınların bu saldırılarda kullanılmasına öncelik etmiştir. Sri Lanka ve
Hindistan Devlet Başbakan’larının öldürülmesinin akabinde, LTTE; yaklaşık
75.000 Müslüman zorunlu olarak sürgün ederek, etnik temizlik gerçekleştirmiş,
mülklerine el koymuştur. Örgütün terör eylemleri insanlığa karşı işlenen suç
kapsamında değerlendirilmiştir. Bugün ise Birleşmiş Milletler bünyesinde,
LTTE’nin bir terör örgütü olup olmadığı İnsan Hakları Konseyi ile İnsan Hakları
Yüksek Komiserliği arasında tartışılmaktadır.

Keywords

Tamil Elam Kurtuluş Kaplanları, Sri Lanka, Terörizm, Terörizmle Savaş, İç Savaş

AN ERGA OMNES DISPUTE IN THE UNITED NATIONS FOR DEFINING THE PAST ARMED CONFLICT OF SRI LANKA

Abstract

The three-decade-long armed
conflict ended in Sri Lanka, by the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009.  LTTE is
defined as an international terrorist organization and banned in 32 countries.
Terrorist acts of LTTE were under the category of crimes against humanity.
After the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, today there is a new conflict
on Sri Lanka, in the United Nations,
between the Human Rights Council and the Office of the High Commissioner for
the Human Rights for defining the past armed conflict as combat terrorism or an
internal war as well defining the LTTE as a terrorist organization or not.

Keywords

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka, Terrorism, Combat Terrorism, Civil War

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