Leeter to Mr.Naryana Murthy - Chief Mentor of Infosys

Dear Mr.Narayana Murthy, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of Infosys,

It was with great shock and disbelief that we learned of your acceptance of the appointment as International Advisor on Information Technology to the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

This is being addressed to you whose corporation proclaims (http://www.infosys.com/about/who-we-are/default.asp) that its mission is "To achieve our objectives in an environment of fairness, honesty, and courtesy towards our clients, employees, vendors and society at large" and so the hope is that as a global corporation your society at large would include the next door neighbor Sri Lanka.

As is well known the Sri Lankan government presided by Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa is aggressively perpetrating extraordinary violence on hundreds of thousands of innocent Tamil civilians under the guise of fighting armed liberation fighters in the island.

This violence consistent with the pattern of ethnic cleansing involving among other things State-sponsored riots against Tamils since 1958 has already been characterized legally as Genocide by no less a legal expert than Mr. Bruce Fein former Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Mr. Fein has already filed a 1000-page model indictment with the US Attorney General's office charging the Defense Secretary of Sri Lanka Gothabaya Rajapaksa and the Army Commander Sarath Fonseka with Genocide, War Crimes and Torture under the Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 of the United States. The indictment chronicles "more than 3,750 extrajudicial killings, approximately 30,000 Tamils suffering serious bodily injury, and more than 1.3 million displacements (a number far exceeding displacements in Kosovo which lead to genocide counts before the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia)".

Mr. Fein states in his letter accompanying the model indictment to the U.S. Attorney General: "Count twelve of genocide is indistinguishable from the genocide of 7,000 Bosnian Muslim males in Srebrenica, which had been declared a safe zone by Bosnian Serbs. Count twelve charges Rajapaksa and Fonseka of bombing and shelling 350,000 Tamil civilians into one large "safe area," and, since January 21, 2009, killing and maiming the Tamils who had amassed there by aerial bombing and artillery. In the month of January, according to the model indictment, 750 Tamils have been massacred and more than 2,250 have been seriously injured. On the BBC, on Feb. 2, Rajapaksa declared that nothing should live or breathe outside the Orwellian "safe area." Thus, one hospital outside the area has been bombed three times, including by cluster bombs. More than 1,000 Tamils are in detention camps, and reports of rape have already emerged. "

Even India's Supreme Court Bar Association has condemned the Genocide in its resolution dated Feb 4, 2009.

Sri Lanka has been accused of serious human rights violations in general. It lost in May 2008 its bid to retain its seat in the UN Human Rights Council losing even to countries such as Pakistan and the world body Human Rights Watch reports that ( http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/05/18/nobel-prize-winners-tell-un-vote-sri-lanka-human-rights-council ) three Nobel laureates Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and Adolfo Perez Esquivel had joined Sri Lankan and International NGOs in opposition to Sri Lanka's bid for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council.

That the Sri Lankan government has a lot of ugly things to hide is evident from its notorious of treatment of journalists both foreign and Sri Lankan. The BBC reports ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7823729.stm ) that the Sri Lankan government has been accused of encouraging violence against the media by branding reporters seen as critical as rebel-sympathisers and enemies of the state and that Amnesty International has said in November 2008 that at least 10 media employees had been killed in Sri Lanka since 2006. Most recently in January 2009 Mr. Laasntha Wickramatunga, a leading Sri Lankan newspaper editor and fierce government critic who had numerous run-ins with the government, was shot dead by unknown assailants. The murder of Wickramatunga came just two days after after the arson attack against private TV broadcaster MBC networks. No doubt it is said that "Sri Lanka remains one of the world's most dangerous countries for independent journalists".

A latest development is ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/4613039/Sri-Lanka-plans-to-hold-displaced-Tamils-in-concentration-camps.html ) that the Rajapaksa government has plans to hold displaced Tamil civilians in barbed wire concentration camps like the Nazis did with total loss of privacy and of basic human rights.

Given all this information about the conduct of the Sri Lankan government and of its President and his colleagues, it is clear why the world is dismayed that you have agreed to be the Information Technology advisor to them. Your participation in this will only be like advising Hitler run his concentration camps more efficiently.

Mr. Narayana Murthy, you have said in an interview to the British newspaper Independent you have "a different world view from most businessmen...they forget they are part of society. I believe that unless we are in touch with reality and the common people, we will not be in a position to add value to society." We are sure you are in touch with reality here right in the midst of a calamity. You have also said in the same interview about how, after seeing the response of the world to the 2004 tsunami tragedy, you felt there was affirmation of faith in humanity.

Here again now in Sri Lanka we have a catastrophic human tragedy and the victims there need affirmation of their faith in humanity and many in the world who have always believed in your personality as looking beyond mere business need affirmation in your humanity and your avowed principles.

To that end we the undersigned earnestly call upon you to:

* Remain consistent with your principles and corporate ethics and prove it in this situation
* Reject the offer to you from the Sri Lankan government appointing you as their International Advisor on Information Technology and resign if you already begun serving in that position
* Express your anguish over the situation of the Tamil ethnic minority there
* Condemn the Sri Lankan government over its treatment of the Tamil minoritity
* Serve as a role model for the Indian IT industry and to all of Indian business
* Remind the Indian IT business and profession that they are connected to people and need to be conscious of human events and act conscionably

You have said: "I am relentless. I just do things as if there is no tomorrow. That is why I think I am impatient."

We hope that you will be acting with the same impatience here too.

Yours Sincerely
A Indian Tamil along with all Tamils in the world

What it mean by Sri Lankan Army's zero civilian casualty (ZCC) policy ?

What is the meaning of Sri Lankan Army's Zero civilian casualty (ZCC) policy ? That's very simple

1. Kill civilians and say those are LTTE in civilian dress.
2. Kill the civilians and tell the media the LTTE killed them.
3. Kill the civilians and bury them in mass graveyard.

The above are cowards recipe of Sri Lankan armed forces, police and paramilitary's Zero civilian casualty policy.

How to prove it ?

browse http://www.defence.lk Sri Lankan governments official Tamil Genocide propaganda web site and you will see all short of lies here. For example consider today Jan 11, 2009.

The defence.lk the in the bellow article is trumpeting about Zero Civilian Casualty (ZCC) policy. According to the article there are no civilian injured and how they killed the Tigers is using the snipers to hit the target the priciesly, But the truth is the coward sinhala army fires artilerey, Multi Barel Rocket Laucher (MBRL) to hit the civilan areas rather than curtil supply to Forward Defence Line (FDL) battel.



Pic 1:- Screen shot of http://defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090111_04

On Jan 11, 2009 Sri Lanka date in Puthukkudiyiruppu, Mullaitheevu district the SLA army targeted the civilian settelment. This killed 4 civilian and injured many. This inclueds 3 member from the same family and 17 year old student.



Pic 2:- Artillery destroyed temporary hut of Internally Displaced civilians



Pic 3:- victims L-R Sinnamma Thuraisamy , 55, Kaaththan Thuraisamy, 61, and S. Thavakumar, 17.



Pic 4:- Injured Five year old girl

Picture source:- http://www.tamilwin.com/view.php?2aIWnJe0dHj060ecGG7X3b4F9EO4d2g2h2cc2DpY2d426QV3b02ZLu3e

Pictuers of LTTE Tigers killed in battel

Jan 08, 2009 The Sri Lankan army fired artillery shells targeting Tharmapuram civilian area. Where 7 killed and many wounded. The pictures are dead civilians which include infants and young children. But the SLA claims it has Zero tolerance for civilian causalities.

The Sinhalese majority government marching on it's Genocide of Tamils.



Pic 1:- A killed child



Pic 2:- Another killed child





Pic 3:- Wounded girl




Pic 4:- Wounded child



Pic 5:- It's not a suicide bomb. Just impact of Sri Lanka army's artillery



Pic 6:- destroyed hut



Pic 7:- Destroyed hut



Pic 8:- Frightened civilians

A Christmas gift by Sri Lanka goverment.

While having tea and enjoying the Christmas eve (December 24, 2008) at my home, just had chance to come across the sad news about the war which going on in the north part of the island nation Sri Lanka. While Sinhalese majority government conduction Genocide against the Tamil minority in the nation in mask of war against terror, on Christmas eve it's boomed the Holy Cross Convent school Co-operative society and Live stock form which in Paranthan. The cluster boom attach by Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) damaged the near by church as well.

The terror state Sri Lanka's air strike on Dec 24, 2008 morning killed 85 cows. By doing this the Goverment of SL (GoSL) marching on it's structural genocide agains tamils. The killed catels are main economical as well as the milk source for the war torn

But the defence web site of Sri Lankan defence ministory claimed that it has hit the Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) gathering point accuretly. Please refer the defence.lk URL http://defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20081224_04. For more detail look at the screen shot. Moreover tlook at the wrong title of the web page.





The pictures of damaged school, church and the live stocks.




Damaged Church




Damaged Holy Cross Convent school building with Red Cross symbol on the roof.



Wounded cow.



Killed Cows.



Damaged co-operative society.