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Currently, Sri Lanka is in
negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan
of about 1.9 billion US dollars.
Sri Lanka's war on Tamils
have already claimed the lives of nearly 3200 civilians and
critically injured more than 9200 civilians, in the last 75 days
alone. More than 300,000 Tamils have been made homeless.
The failure of the Sri
Lankan state to provide any forms of political solution to the
ethnic crisis and its ardent belief in the further militarization at
the expense of human lives, crumbling economy, failing human rights
and humanitarian standards, and increased alienation in the
International community only shows Sri Lanka's absolute lack of
serious commitment to work for the betterment of its people.
Therefore, one would be safe to assume that, any money provided to
Sri Lanka will only perpetuate the war on Tamils even further.
We therefore, call on you
to act immediately to ensure the major shareholders of the IMF don't
provide the emergency loan sought by the Government of Sri Lanka.
Top five shareholders of
the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are USA (16.79% votes), Japan
(6.02), Germany (5,88), UK (4.86), France (4.86). Canada, votes on
her behalf and a host of other countries, has the power to weigh in
with 3.64% of the votes.
Check
http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/memdir/eds.htm for more
information.
CanadianHART calls upon
all concerned individuals and organizations to appeal to the IMF
directors to deny the US$1.9 in loan sought by the Government of Sri
Lanka and to help stop the war.
Sign CanadianHART's
petition to IMF:
http://haltgenocide.org/appeal_ifm/appeal_ifm.html
New - Sign CanadianHART's
petition to Canada's Minister of Finance, Hon. Jim Flaherty -
http://haltgenocide.org/appeal_ifm2/appeal_ifm2.html
Sign PEARL action's petition to IMF Asia-Pacific Director at:
USA -
http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=pearl&hotissue=46
International -
http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=pearl&hotissue=47
Read Sample letter with detailed information [pdf]
Read Sample letter with detailed information [word]
Send e-mails to the
major shareholders of IMF:
USA - Meg
Lundsager, Email:
mlundsager@imf.org
Japan -
Daisuke Kotegawa, Email:
dkotegawa@imf.org
Germany - Klaus D. Stein,
Email: kstein@imf.org
UK -
Alex Gibbs, Email:
agibbs@imf.org
France -
Pierre Duquesne, Email:
pduquesne@imf.org
France - Alternate: Benoit Claveranne, Email:
bclaveranne@imf.org
Canada -
Jonathan Fried (Canada),
Email:
jfried@imf.org
Alternate: Peter Charleton (Ireland), Email:
pcharleton@imf.org
Send letters to:
Mr. Brian Aitken
Sri Lanka Mission Chief
International Monetary Fund,
700 19th Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20431
Mr. Anoop Singh, Director,
Asia and Pacific Department
International Monetary Fund,
700 19th Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20431 |
