Isaac Falconer is a pseudonym in the spirit of George Eliot (Mary Ann / Marian / Evans) and Isak Dinesen (Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke) merely TWO of the giants on whose (proverbial) shoulders I stand. Isaac: Hebrew, meaning laughter ~ deeply ironic when taken in the context of current and historic Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.Falconer: taken from the William Butler Yeats poem, "The Second Coming" (1921): "Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer . . ." ~ an Irish poet's deep lament for the fragmented human relationships which mar post-modern life.

(Dr.) Saku Gunasegaram is a Christian Eelam Tamil [most Eelam Tamils are Hindu]~originally from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)~who is deeply committed to peace~making. She experienced first hand "The 1983 Intensification of Sinhala Genocide Against Tamils" in what Tamils "themselves" have used an euphemism to describe as: "The '83 Riots." She is in the company of such [sarcastically stated-of course!] "terrorist separatists" as 1986 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel[http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/inthenews.aspx]~and _The Boston Globe_ [http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/12/26/sri_lankas_ignored_war/]~in her calls for justice and equality for Tamils in Sri Lanka~within A Separate and Independent Peaceable Kingdom Light-Filled Tamil Homeland [Eelam]. She is in the company of such [sarcastically stated-of course!] "terrorist separatists" as Nobel Peace Prize-winners Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Amnesty International and Handicap International in her calling for the IMMEDIATE, UNCONDITIONAL, REAL and ABSOLUTE release of the 550,000 civilian Tamils [including 100,000 Tamil children] who REMAIN completely LACKING in FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT~an estimated 20,000 civilians STILL [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11937882] in 2012~imprisoned by the neo-Nazi GENOCIDAL fascist Sinhala Sri Lankan government [http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/456004-sri-lanka-video-executions-abuse-corpses.html#.2394-stage-teaser1-6]~NOT by "Dirty Tamil Tiger LTTE Terrorists" ["Dirty Tamil Tiger LTTE Terrorists"~sarcastically stated-of course!]
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top]
and
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/13/sri-lanka-war-crimes?intcmp=239]
and
[http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc]
and
[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/c4-tests-boundaries-of-broadcasting-with-sri-lanka-expos233-2295499.html]

The banner photographed in the BBC news story referred to here reads: "The Syrian people are slaughtered. WHERE IS THE WORLD?"[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16995279]
Dark-skinned ethnic minority Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka can reply:
"EXACTLY where the world WAS~in 2009~as 330,000 Tamils~[three hundred and thirty thousand unarmed, noncombatant, civilian Tamils]~possibly even MORE THAN 1.4 MILLION TAMILS~were slaughtered UNIMPEDED!"
[http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc]
"EXACTLY where the world HAS BEEN SINCE 2009~as the slaughter of Tamils is "ongoing" in 2012!"
[http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/05/27/sri-lanka-un-rights-council-fails-victims]
United Nations' official John Holmes has been CLEAR [March 15th, 2012] that "NOTHING MORE CAN BE DONE" [at the United Nations Human Rights Council Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland from February 27th, 2012 until March 23rd, 2012] TO HOLD THE PERPETRATORS OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN SRI LANKA "ACCOUNTABLE." It appears to follow "naturally" that JUST LIKE in Egypt and in Libya [there are other countless/innumerable "world"precedents~naturally!] energetic efforts MUST IMMEDIATELY be made by The United States and by The European Union and by The United Nations to effect EXPEDITIOUS REGIME CHANGE IN SRI LANKA-with ZERO violence~"naturally!"

It is CLEAR~from Hope and Change President Obama's OWN OFFICIAL United States GOVERNMENT WEB PAGE STATEMENT on the United States' White House web page [first two lines down from SUBJECT]: Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/04/presidential-study-directive-mass-atrocities

It is clear from the evidence and the reportage and the "intelligence" that NOWHERE NEAR THE NUMBER 1.4 MILLION SINHALA CITIZENS of SRI LANKA have BEEN SLAUGHTERED~in what Sri Lanka's ruling regime likes to call "THREE DECADES OF FIGHTING DIRTY TAMIL LTTE TERRORISTS!"
It is clear from the evidence and the reportage and the "intelligence" that THE NUMBER 1.4 MILLION may well be A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE for THE NUMBER OF EELAM TAMIL CITIZENS of SRI LANKA SLAUGHTERED IN GENOCIDE~by Sri Lanka's nakedly genocidal neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist Rajapakse regime "alone" whose "Big Excuse" for perpetrating genocide~WITH UTTER "international" IMPUNITY~ between 2006 and "ongoing in 2012" is: "WE ARE FIGHTING DIRTY TAMIL TIGER LTTE TERRORISTS!"
President Obama continues his "signature-Obama-style" 2012 TOTALLY MEANINGLESS vigorous LIP SERVICE to the "idea" [http://www.bbc.co.uk/tamil/sri_lanka/2012/02/120213_oteroinlanka.shtml] of Sri Lanka conducting war crimes "investigations" into its OWN CONDUCT WHILE THE NEO-NAZI SINHALA FASCIST TOTALITARIAN REGIME REMAINS COMFORTABLY ENTRENCHED IN LUXURIOUS TOTAL POWER [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17018973] [Please see 2nd paragraph down from the top]
On the "one hand"
2010~as in TWO WHOLE CALENDAR YEARS AGO [!]~since it's now 2012~THREE WHOLE CALENDAR YEARS "after" THE WORST OF THE ***GENOCIDE***WikiLeaks-revealed ***MARKEDLY*** ****NOT**** US STATE-DEPARTMENT-REVEALED cables indicate CLEARLY: http://www.channel4.com/news/wikileaks-sri-lanka-leadership-responsible-for-crimes [Please see 5th paragraph down from the top]:
United States' Ambassador to Sri Lanka's nakedly genocidal neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist totalitarian State~Patricia Butenis~writes in a WikiLeaked communication that it is "unsurprising" that Sri Lanka's government has not investigated the issue, noting "there are no examples we know of a regime undertaking wholesale investigations of its own troops or senior officials for war crimes while that regime or government remained in power."
[http://www.channel4.com/news/wikileaks-sri-lanka-leadership-responsible-for-crimes]
On the "other hand"
As "recently" as on February 13th, 2012~as in TWO WHOLE CALENDAR YEARS "after" [!]~Ambassador Butenis's SECRET CABLES revealed via WikiLeaks~and THREE WHOLE CALENDAR YEARS "after" the "worst" of Sri Lanka's 2009 *GENOCIDE* on Tamils~President Obama's OWN "personal" KNOWLEDGE of the unapologetic and naked and open ***GENOCIDE**** perpetrated by Sri Lanka's "own"nakedly genocidal neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist State~on its "own" ethnic minority populations~since it's now CLEARLY 2012~The BBC's reporting indicates CLEARLY President Obama's ***CONTINUED***COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS "lip service" to the ***IDEA***of investigating Sri Lanka's egregious WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY [Please see 2nd paragraph down from the top] They say the US will back a resolution in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland February 27th though March 23rd, 2012 which urges Colombo to look into war crimes allegations by its forces. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17018973]
SADLY: The only ***REMOTELY ACCEPTABLE*** method for holding the neo-Nazi Sinahla fascist totalitarian Sri Lankan State "accountable" for its "own" CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY~"given" Ambassador Butenis's "own" powerful 2010 cable~are CRIMINAL TRIALS at The International Criminal Court in the Hague, The Netherlands. These trials will NOT cost US TAXPAYERS ONE SINGLE DIME. What it "might cost" are "open revelations" of US President Barack Obama's RAW COMPLICITY in Sri Lanka's ***GENOCIDE**** on dark-skinned ethnic minority Eelam Tamils.
"Naturally!"~President Obama say to His Own Esteemed Self: "We can't have THAT [!] Can we?????"
After all "our political audience" is PERFECTLY "happy" with the "awesome" "light and sound" show I've been "putting on"~ever since 2007. ***WHY*** on earth should I "bother" to "change" NOW???? This "late in the day" in 2012???? [2012 is the year of President Obama's Re-Election bid in the United States]
Whatever ***FOR***???
THEREIN lies the "power" of US journalism~and the US voting population.

United States President Obama *ACTS FREELY IN COMPLICITY WITH SRI LANKA'S GENOCIDE ON TAMILS* because President Obama has made the clever and the highly accurate and the "ruthless political calculation" that the United States' Press Corp does *NOT* "consider" his *THREE-CALENDAR-YEARS-LONG FAILURE TO ACT* [his *ABJECT FAILURE* to confront and defeat the genocidal forces arrayed so powerfully and so effectively against a dark-skinned ethnic minority population of Tamils in Sri Lanka] any type of "scandal"~since President Obama's *FAILURE TO ACT* does *NOT* "involve" drug abuse, prostitutes, extra-marital affairs a la Clinton~as in Clinton Lied No One Died, or money-exchanged-for-political-favors-like-Solyndra/President Obama's house in Chicago.
On the "one hand"
*ADMIRABLY* *LAUDABLY *COMPASSIONATELY* *APPROPRIATELY*~in 2012~United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told "supporters" of Syria's bloody-handed Bashar al-Assad regime: "You cannot continue to support this illegitimate regime" and "The Assad regime will fall."
Secretary of State Clinton went "even further"~in a statement made on February 28th, 2012~telling the world that Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad could be regarded as "a war criminal" [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9111848/Syria-Bashar-al-Assad-could-be-regarded-as-a-war-criminal-says-Hillary-Clinton.html]
On the "other hand"~as "recently" as in February 2012~United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told "supporters" of SRI LANKA'S bloody-handed neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist totalitarian Rajapakse regime: The United States FULLY SUPPORTS YOUR GENOCIDAL REGIME [!] "even" at the United Nations~and in the "international global arena":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17018973
They say the US will back a resolution in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland February 27th through March 23rd, 2012 which urges Colombo to look into war crimes allegations by its forces.
Like so MANY "official public statements" issued by The Esteemed Obama Administration such statements SOUND SO *WONDERFUL*~in stark contrast to their dire and terrifying REALITIES. While such "typically of The Obama Light+Sound Show" statements *SOUND* truly *WONDERFUL* they are in truth *NOTHING* but President Obama's *RAW COMPLICITY* in Sri Lanka's *GENOCIDE* perpetrated with COMPLETE JUDICIAL IMPUNITY on dark-skinned ethnic minority Eelam Tamil citizens of Sri Lanka~in Sri Lanka~in 2009~and "ongoing" in 2012.

To Place The Unapologetic Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Dark-Skinned Ethnic Minority Tamils in Sri Lanka in Some Global Perspective: On the "one hand" North Korea's brutal military dictator engages in A SINGLE WEEKEND of tragic and senseless bombing of South Korea [November 23rd, 2010] and The International Criminal Court has *ALREADY* [December 6th, 2010] begun its "investigations" into whether North Korea's unprovoked brutal military aggression constitutes "a war crime": http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/06/international-criminal-court-to-look-at-whether-n-korea-shelling-is-a-war-crime/?iref=allsearch
The "last time" anyone "checked" North Korea-the *aggressor* in this matter~the agency "being investigated" BY The International Criminal Court~IS NOT A SIGNATORY TO THE ROME STATUTE [!] Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

On the "other hand" conservative estimates suggest that: A "MINIMUM" of 75,000 [seventy-five THOUSAND]~more *PROBABLY* 330,000 [three hundred and thirty thousand]~http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sri-lanka-accused-of-war-crimes-in-final-onslaught-1975611.html UNARMED, civilian, dark-skinned ethnic minority Tamils were "slaughtered in cold blood" by Sri Lanka's brutally militarized totalitarian government forces in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka~more nearly 36 months ago~in 2009~
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] and [http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc] The International Criminal Court has *YET TO OFFICIALLY OPEN AN INVESTIGATION* into these well-documented acts of brutal *GENOCIDE* against *UNARMED* *NONCOMBATANT* *UNPROTECTED* *CIVILIAN* dark-skinned ethnic minority Tamil LEGAL citizens of Sri Lanka. When Dr. Gunasegaram wrote "a snailmail" letter DIRECTLY to The International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands, in March 2009 requesting an *IMMEDIATE* investigation into the unspeakable war crimes allegations reported by the international press~on Sri Lanka's brutal war crimes~she received a snailmail rote response from The International Criminal Court stating the following [paraphrased]: The *aggressor*~the neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist military dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse [http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] and [http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc]~cannot POSSIBLY be "investigated" by The International Criminal Court BECAUSE the government of Sri Lanka [*EXACTLY* like the government of Libya: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13408931]~*BECAUSE* SRI LANKA IS *NOT* A SIGNATORY TO THE ROME STATUTE [!]

Dr. Gunasegaram received "yet another" snailmail letter in October/November 2009 from The International Criminal "explaining" to "her-poor-silly-Tamil-woman-self" the following [paraphrased]: The *aggressor* in Sri Lanka's war crimes~the neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist military dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse~cannot POSSIBLY be "investigated" by The International Criminal Court BECAUSE the government of Sri Lanka IS NOT A SIGNATORY TO THE ROME STATUTE [!]~this in *spite* of the "vast-to-unlimited-prosecutorial-powers" assigned to the Prosecutor's Office at the International Criminal Court: http://jicj.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/4/731.abstract

To add insult to Tamil injuries~United Nations Chief Ban Ki-moon has *YET TO PLACE SRI LANKA'S EGREGIOUS WAR CRIMES ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL AGENDA*/HAS *YET TO OFFICIALLY CONDEMN* [as of May 26th, 2012] the nakedly genocidal
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] and
[http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mcneo]-Nazi Sinhala fascist government of Sri Lankan President Rajapakse~the agency RESPONSIBLE for these SENSELESS and TRAGIC deaths. In fact~INSTEAD OF CONDEMNATION~Sri Lanka's nakedly genocidal neo-Nazi fascist totalitarian President Rajapkse was "invited" by the UN to "beam" triumphantly all over New York City, USA~during the week of the UN meeting of September 20th, 2010~including enjoying the "usual" frequent photo opportunities and handshakes with the world's leaders: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11404198~INCLUDING "airing" Rajapakse's suggestion to the UN General Assembly that The Geneva Convention be abolished [!]~since it's such A *NUISANCE* CONVENTION when applied to the treatment of GENOCIDE-RESISTING groups like Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [frequently referred to as "dirty Tamil Tiger LTTE terrorists" ["Dirty Tamil Tiger LTTE Terrorists"~sarcastically stated-of course!] "Naturally" and supposedly "inevitably" [in spite of President Obama's 2011 Proclamation forbidding entry to the USA for egregious abusers of human rights] a "repeat performance" of Rajapakse's dog-and-pony-show was on "proud" display at the UN *AGAIN* during The UN General Assembly Meeting in 2011~and is "expected" once again~in FULL REGALIA~in 2012~at the "2012 Human Rights Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland."

"Even" Sri Lanka's [weak and unpopular] "predecessor-to-Rajapakse-from the-political-opposition-party-to-Rajapakse" [Chandrika Kumaratunge]~TOO LITTLE!~TOO LATE!~has "finally" [July 25th,2011] PUBLICLY BERATED the nakedly genocidal neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist Rajapakse regime: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14274988~
risking her own life~at some level to do so~since so many political opponents/journalists/critics of Sri Lanka's nakedly genocidal neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist regime have been "magically disappeared" [the sanitized term for the cold-blooded murder of political and ideological opponents of the Rajapakse regime]~while The Obama Administration has *YET* [as of today~May 26th, 2012] FAILED to PUBLICLY AND OFFICIALLY condemn Sri Lanka's war criminals in the Rajapakse regime. [Something about "Obama: The Much-Praised-Endlessly-Celebrated-Cross-Between-Lincoln-and-Johnson-and-Mandela-and-King-Civil-Rights Icon", eh?]

To "add Sinhala insult" to dark-skinned ethnic minority Tamil injuries~Sri Lanka's so-called "international cricket stars" and The BBC's reporter in Colombo [Charles Haviland] are being craftily "used" in the "latest" MAGNIFICENT-if habitual" public relations-move for whitewashing Sri Lanka's EGREGIOUS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY presenting the SYSTEMATIC and PLANFUL and OBSCENE EXTORTION of money from war-ravaged, UNCOMPENSATED-FOR-THEIR-WAR-LOSSES-and-INJURIES Tamils by so-called "cricket stars" all in the name of "fundraising" to fulfill the fundraising dreams of AN ALREADY OBSCENELY WEALTHY Sinhala fascist cricket star: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14312336

The PRIME AUTHORIZER of Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka~Sri Lanka's nakedly genocidal President Mahinda Rajapakse REMAINS a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES [!] The PRIME PERPETRATOR of Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka~Rajapakse's "hit man" Retired Army Major General Sarath Fonseka is a CURRENT UNITED STATES GREEN CARD HOLDER [!]
These FACTS speak *VOLUMES* about WHO *exactly* IN THE WORLD "gets" and "keeps" US green cards~who "gets" and "keeps" US CITIZENSHIP STATUS.

On July 24th, 2011 The BBC reported that [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14267668] The Tamil National Alliance (TNA)~widely viewed as the political proxy of the LTTE~took 18 out of 26 councils in what is being seen as a rare electoral setback for the [nakedly genocidal neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist dictatorship~incapable of conducting free and fair elections~at the best of times~let alone while it faces serious war crimes allegations in the international arena] government of President Rajapakse. The BBC's reporter-on-the-ground-in-Colombo~Charles Haviland said on July 24th, 2011 that Sri Lanka's "latest" election results indicate that "ethnic polarisation is still an issue in the country." "As usual"~Mr. Haviland's breathtaking understatements continue to scream distinctly "at odds" with reporting from other established and internationally-respected sources~sources which characterize the "daily" conditions facing dark-skinned ethnic minority Tamils in Sri Lanka~in 2012~with greater accuracy~and perhaps with less breathtaking cynicism~as genocide:
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc

Historically and into the present day on May 26th, 2012, dark-skinned ethnic minority [legally Sri Lankan citizens] Tamils have been and are a viciously persecuted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11668352~dark-skinned minority ethnic population in Sri Lanka~because the "majority" Sinhala population of Sri Lanka believe themselves to be members of a "Aryan Master Race" [http://atimes.com/ind-pak/CH25Df02.html]~like Hitler's Nazi "Aryan Master Race"~and therefore feel "perfectly and naturally entitled" to subjugating "minority Tamils"~in every sense of the word "subjugate"~including the committing of the crime against Tamil humanity that is GENOCIDE. Since 1949 [Nineteen Forty-Nine] Sri Lankan Tamils have faced GENOCIDE. GENOCIDAL attacks against Sri Lankan Tamils [and their children]~including acts of state-sponsored terrorism against civilian Tamils ~perpetrated by successive neo-Nazi GENOCIDAL fascist Sri Lankan Sinhala government administrations since 1949~are currently being perpetrated with complete impunity by the government of neo-Nazi GENOCIDAL Sinhala fascist President Mahinda Rajapakse. The _Times of London_ reported on July 10th, 2009~that "1,400 civilian Tamils per week" [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6676792.ece] were dying in the concentration camps at Manik Farm~under the control of the neo-Nazi GENOCIDAL Sinhala fascist Sri Lankan government of
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top][
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc]

The DIRECT and INDIRECT consequences of Sinhala "Aryan" GENOCIDE
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] [
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc] against Tamils have decreased the minority Tamil population in Sri Lanka~from 15% [fifteen percent] of the population~to 3.9% [three point nine percent] of the population in 2010 [CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ce.html]. It is completely wrong to characterize such a lopsided "DESPERATE effort to combat neo-Nazi Sinhala government fascism and GENOCIDE"~conducted by the LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]~such a classically "David vs. Goliath scenario" as "civil war"~when Tamils have endured so much GENOCIDE~and decreased so dramatically as a percentage of Sri Lanka's population. The so-called "military defeat" of the LTTE~by the Sri Lankan army~on May 18th, 2009~is as if The Allied Command [in "band of ragged men" form] or The French Resistance had been defeated by fascist Nazi Germany. BELIEVE IT OR NOT the "good guys" LOST. After all~would anyone in their "right mind" term The Allied Command fighting Nazis in WWII~"terrorists?" Only "Nazi-emulators"~or hideously racist White Supremacist Equivalents~like Rajapakse and his stalwart comrades-in-genocide~term those fighting on behalf of victims of genocide ~"terrorists." Even though neo-Nazi genocidal Sri Lankan Sinhala fascist President Mahinda Rajapakse declared an "end" to the "civil war" [http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] [
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc] on May 18th, 2009, TODAY, as of May 26th, 2012 [THREE CALENDAR YEARS LATER]~as many as 550,000 completely destitute, unarmed, civilian Tamil refugees remain LACKING IN FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT~TODAY~in 2012~imprisoned [for all intents and purposes~even though they are no longer "purely technically" housed in concentration camps] by the neo-Nazi, fascist and genocidal [ethnic majority] Sinhala Sri Lankan government~including 100,000 ethnic minority Tamil children~as of TODAY, May 26th, 2012. As many as 20,000 innocent, unarmed Tamil civilians remain imprisoned within the boundaries of Manik Farm concentration camp~having lost all they possess~including ENTIRE families~in the ceaseless artillery bombardments and bombings they have been exposed to between 2006 and 2009~and "ongoing" to the present day
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] and
[http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc]~NOT at the hands of those "dirty Tamil Tiger LTTE terrorists" ["Dirty Tamil Tiger LTTE Terrorists"~sarcastically stated-of course!] The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [LTTE] but at the hands of THEIR OWN TOTALITARIAN, NEO-NAZI, FASCIST, AND OPENLY GENOCIDAL [ethnic majority] SINHALA SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT~as of TODAY, May 26th, 2012~many with shrapnel "still" embedded in their bodies~untreated for years in some cases~REMAIN "trapped" in the North and East of Sri Lanka. These displaced refugees are granted NO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT by the neo-Nazi GENOCIDAL Sinhala fascist military that "guards" them. On December 1st, 2009~a date when Sri Lanka's neo-Nazi fascist Sinhala government declared Manik Farm concentration camp "opened"~130,000 civilian Tamils HAD NO PLACE TO GO~having had their homes, schools and hospitals bombed-down-to-cinders-and-ashes~NOT BY "THE DIRTY TAMIL TIGER LTTE TERRORISTS" ["Dirty Tamil Tiger LTTE Terrorists"~sarcastically stated-of course!]~but by their own fascist and genocidal neo-Nazi Sinhala Sri Lankan government. Between May 18th, 2009 and December 1st, 2009 it is thought [no independent verification of ACTUAL NUMBERS was or IS ever POSSIBLE due to the pernicious obstructionism of the fascist Sinhala Sri Lankan authorities] that 550,000 unarmed civilian Tamils were imprisoned behind Nazi concentration camp-evoking barbed-wire fencing~deprived of proper amounts of water, food, access to sanitation and medical care~and deprived [by the "active impediment" created by the fascist Sinhala government] of "true access" to the assistance of the International Red Cross [ICRC]. 550,000 innocent Tamil civilians have faced the Asian monsoon rains-which have "arrived" on schedule for centuries. They faced the torrents of "killer" raw sewage running through their overcrowded camps. Even though the prisons were "technically" opened as of December 1st, 2009~the DESTITUTE Tamils were only permitted to leave on 15-day military passes[!]

On July 9th, 2009 the nakedly genocidal neo-Nazi totalitarian Sinhala fascist Sri Lankan government of Mahinda Rajapakse "banned" the The International Committed for the Red Cross [ICRC] from operating in the North and East of Sri Lanka~the ICRC being the ONLY "independent" source of information on the conditions within the concentration camps run by the Sri Lankan government. A fragile and tenuous peace (a ceasefire) HAD held from 2002-2006 when peace talks brokered by Norwegian diplomats between the government and the "separatist" Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [LTTE]~labeled "terrorists" by the neo-Nazi GENOCIDAL Sinhala fascist Sri Lankan government
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] and [
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc]~for their brave and honest and open DREAM of a cultural genocide -free/all forms of genocide-free "Independent Peaceable Kingdom Light-Filled Tamil Homeland"~broke down. The label "terror group" got attached to the LTTE "after" the tragic events of September 11th, 2001~because the neo-Nazi GENOCIDAL Sinhala fascist Sri Lankan government perceived a "beautiful opportunity" for finding a "new manufactured legitimacy" for wiping out all the "remaining" Tamils who live in Sri Lanka.

This Liberation Tiger "policy" of fighting AGAINST the genocide
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] and [
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc] of their entire ethnic minority group is *almost* as *EMBARRASSING* as *SILLY* as *WRONG* and as *EXTREMIST* as French, Danish, and Dutch Resistance "policy"~French, Danish and Dutch Resistance fighters who "dared" to fight the Nazis~and the Nazi DICTATOR Hitler~and were labeled "criminals" and "terrorists" by their Nazi oppressors for their "pains"~in the identical manner adopted by the neo-Nazi Sinhala fascist regime of Mahinda Rajapakse: Label all LEGITIMATE political opponents "traitors" "criminals" "terrorists" and "terrorist sympathizers." For the most part~to add Nazi insult to Nazi injury~French, Danish, and Dutch Resistance fighters~like members of Liberation Tigers~employed violent methods~to oppose genocide~and for the most part [like Liberation Tigers] paid "the ultimate price" for their indescribably courageous actions. Unless your name happens to be Adolf Hitler~or more recently Saddam Hussein~How CAN the successful perpetration of genocide~against as many as 330,000 dark-skinned ethnic minority Tamils
[http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] and[
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc]~*POSSIBLY* be classified "a war victory?"~or even classified as "the defeat" of the Liberation Tigers~a group who valiantly and successfully fought [for decades] to SUCCESSFULLY RESIST the genocide perpetrated against their entire ethnic group?

The neo-Nazi GENOCIDAL Sri Lankan government of Sinhala fascist President Mahinda Rajapakse continuously bombed and shelled [with heavy artillery] innocent civilian Tamils in the North of Sri Lanka, [http://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-tamil-killings-ordered-from-the-top] and[
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DRz_eCLcp1Mc] beginning in 2006 [http://www.countercurrents.org/sl-ratnayake280406.htm]~and ending in May 2009~relentlessly~for 3 straight years~36 straight months~openly flouting The Geneva Convention~openly flouting international calls for a ceasefire~made by the U.S. government~by the United Nations~and by the European Union.

Dr. Gunasegaram has made a living as a professional scientist and a professional artist in the USA and in Italy, since 1995. She has been a pacifist legal permanent resident (green card holder) of the USA since 1990. Dr. Gunasegaram has been a convinced Quaker, a member of The Religious Society of Friends (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) since 1998.

FROM A REVIEW: Falconer/Gunasegaram is a deeply spiritual person and her art grows out of her spirituality and her sensitivity. It also grows out of her feminism, represented by the element of gold symbolically woven into the construction of her art. Her use of paper as the support for her painting perfectly reflects her weltanschaung. The sensitivity of paper is quite different from that of canvas. Paper changes the nature of the paint as it absorbs the pigment but it also is changed by the act of absorption. As in Eisenberg's Uncertainty Principle where the mere fact of observation affects the results, Falconer/Gunasegaram absorbs her environment and changes it in the process. She measures the emotional content of those around her as well as her surroundings and her paintings are a litmus test of her findings. Further, there is a Rorschach ink blot test quality to the backgrounds of many of her pieces. What we end up with is a body of work that asks a question and then answers it; the background asks and the foreground answers. Like William Blake, Falconer/Gunasegaram is a visionary artist, one who searches her soul for the light within. Since 2007, the minimum price for a framed painting has been EURO 50,000. … Read More