Did the EU ban on the LTTE lay the political basis for the Genocide of the Eelam Tamils? In May 2006 – the EU the main initiator of the internationally backed peace process in Sri Lanka – violated the ‘parity of esteem’ accorded to the negotiating parties by banning one side – the LTTE. The third session of the tribunal will examine the continuous pressure to undermine the peace process by certain international power blocs. The third session will go through the facts to establish not only how this happened by why the EU eventually succumbed to these destructive forces. The tribunal will also examine what role these powers play in denying the Eelam Tamil genocide in the international