Past may be forgotten but not forgiven unless the criminals are brought to justice for genocide.
Champika RanawakaSri Lankan Minister Threatens Tamils.
By the way what happened to the much touted summons from the US Court to Rajapakse and the report of the UN Human Rights Commission on Civil Rights and Channel 4 Video?
India is gloating over the proposal of Panetta of CIA to co-operate more closely with India at the expense of China.
What about the Genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka?
‘A Sri Lankan cabinet minister has threatened with ‘hundred more massacres’ unless the island’s Tamil population avoid following the politics of the main Tamil parliamentary group. The warning came during a news conference on the 8 June in Colombo.
“Does Sambanthan want to create 100 more Mullivaikkals? We are ready to forgive and forget the past and think about the future” said the minister. “But, if Sambanthan is calling us to a fight, our nation would proudly accept the challenge” he further said.
The leader of the TNA, 79 year old veteran Tamil politician while delivering the keynote speech at the ITAK national convention the week before, said: “The position that the North and East of Sri Lanka are the areas of historical habitation of the Tamil speaking people cannot be compromised. We must have unrestricted authority to govern our own land, protect our own people, and develop our own economy, culture and tradition. A meaningful devolution should go beyond the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.” If the Sri Lankan state continuously deny this right, “we will claim our right under international law to external self determination” he said.The ITAK convention was held following failed attemps by the TNA to arive at an agreement with the government on an acceptable solution to the National Question.
Expressing anger over the remarks of the Tamil leader, the Sri Lankan minister cautioned the island’s Tamil population saying “we appeal to the Tamil people not to go behind this kind of people and end up in getting 100 more Mullivaikkals”.
Mullivaikkal is an area on the northeastern coast of the island where tens of thousands of Tamils were cornered and massacred during the final stage of the war between Sri Lankan troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. Since then the area has become known as the final ‘killing field’ of the war and Tamils around the world hold annual commemorations named “Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day”. (Video courtesy: ETV) ‘
Few Countries in the world have regularly and systematically denied Rights to the minority Community as Sri Lanka has been to its Ethnic Minority.
Few Countries have massacred Children and women.
Rare are the Countries that confiscates the land of the minority and reconvert it into a Sinhala strong hold.
Few countries rape women and even children in front of their husbands,children and parents.
Few countries are so culturally brutal, despite having Buddhism as its official Religion , as have maimed children, massacred those who had come to surrender with White flags.
Ajay Sahni ,who is s an author and expert on counter-terrorism, and serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, which maintains the South Asia Terrorism Portal, a website focusing on terrorism in South Asia. Sahni also edits ‘South Asia Intelligence Review’ and ‘Faultlines’. Sahni earned his Ph.D. at the University of Delhi, where his dissertation was titled ‘Democracy, Dissent & the Right to Information’. has the gumption to write verbose prose justifying the maacacre of The Tamils in Sri Lanka under the garb of ‘Expert Opinion.’
Look at the Company he keeps.
His President at the South Asia terrorism portal is none other than the infamous K.P.S.Gill , whose record on Human Rights is as follows.
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On January 16, 1995, Jaswant Singh Khalra, human rights activist and general secretary of the Akali Dal’s human rights wing, issued a press note alleging that Punjab security organizations had cremated thousands of unidentified bodies. [79] [80][dead link] [81] [82][dead link] Khalra was taken into custody by Punjab Police on 6 September 1995.[7] Human Rights Watch reported that a September 11, 1995 writ of habeas corpus from the Supreme Court was presented to DGP Gill,[32] and officials denied that police had detained him.[7]
In 2001, Sardool Singh, speaking for the Zinda Shaheed Police Officers Association, announced to the press “We have decided to return the gallantry medals to the President of India on the occasion of Police Martyr’s Day on October 21 if the cases against us are not withdrawn.” He also said that the association was filing a writ with the Supreme Court that cases be opened against senior police and political staff, including then-Director General of Police KPS Gill, for their “… ordering and certifying the encounters…” that resulted in over 650 junior officers facing human rights violation charges.[83][84][85]
In 2003, Khushwant Singh,[86][87] author of “A History of the Sikhs”,[88][89][90][91] wrote a review of “Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab”[92] for The Tribune titled K. P. S. Gill you have questions to answer.[93] Khushwant Singh noted that he supported Gill’s use of extrajudicial methods to “stamp out terrorism” as the judicial system was in a state of collapse due to judges being too frightened to rule against the “terrorists.” Singh commented on the murder of J.S. Khalra that “There were others like him who were disposed of because the police did not like them.” and “It is spine-chilling.” Khushwant Singh reported that when asked for comment, Gill’s response was “Rubbish.” The review continued “Well, Mr Gill, it is not rubbish; you and the Punjab police have quite a few awkward questions to answer.” [94][95]
In 2004, India’s National Human Rights Commission published a list of 2097 bodies cremated as unclaimed. Of those, the Commission had identified 693 at the time.[26]
In 2004, Khushwant Singh wrote K.P.S. Gill Is a “Hero” for The Tribune, and stated that “For 10 years, the Punjab countryside…” had been “…in the grip of terrorists…” until KPS Gill and Julio Francis Ribeiro led the Punjab Police to “…put them down with a heavy hand.” Khushwant Singh reported allegations that Gill was “…a wanton killer…”, but that in his judgement, this view was not correct. [96]
In 2005, Special Police Officer Kuldeep Singh testified in court that in October 1995, after Khalra had been beaten and tortured, and bore the signs of torture on his body, then-DGP KPS Gill visited Khalra at SSP Ajit Singh Sandhu’s home.[33] He further testified that Gill remained with Khalra in the room for “half an hour”, that a few days later Khalra was killed, and finally that on the way back to Jhabal police station after disposing of the body, he was told that Khalra could have saved himself if he had listened to the advice of KPS Gill.[8] [97] [98] Human Rights Watch and Ensaaf (another human rights organization focused on Punjab), argue that KPS Gill had knowledge of Khalra’s illegal detention, could reasonably have been expected to have knowledge of his torture, and had the authority and responsibility to order Khalra’s release, which would have prevented Khalra’s death.[32][97][98][99]
On November 18, 2005, six Punjab police officials were convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment for Khalra’s abduction and murder.[100] On October 16, 2007, a division bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court chaired by Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and A N Jindal extended the sentence to life imprisonment for four of those convicted: Satnam Singh, Surinder Pal Singh, Jasbir Singh (all former Sub Inspectors) and Prithipal Singh (former Head Constable). [101] [102]
Do they have any one from the community, the Tamils, who has suffered the most, or at least has this ‘expert’ understood the history of the Tamils in Sri Lanka?
Or has he documented the atrocities of the Sri Lankan Army?
Of course, one is known by the Books he reads and the company he keeps.
While it is nauseating to call the LTTE as Freedom Fighters, it can not be forgotten that but for the LTTE, the world would not have noticed the conditions of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
True, Prabakaran killed scores of Tamil Leaders who challenged his authority and went to the extent of assassinating Rajiv Gandh;
He recruited volunteers by Force,used children as a shield.
Does this justify Sri Lankan Government’s behaviour of Genocide?
While focussing on terrorism, one must not forget the causes of terrorism, though this is not in support of terrorism.
(By your logic Milosevic of Bosnia is Right and the world is wrong.)
But when all avenues are closed, what do you expect the community to do?
Write blogs in the WordPress?
Or deliberate issues(?) , ensconced in an air-conditioned office as an arm-chair philosopher?
Have you looked at the displaced Tamils of Sri Lanka, who have become penniless overnight and had to become beggars?
Or at parents who have lost their children, children who lost their parents,husbands, wives ?
Has some one seen his wife/daughter raped in front of his eyes?
Or seen one’s son blind folded and shot in front of one’s eyes?
The Jewish approach to Palestine has made the Palestinians ‘People with out State”
Want to do an encore of it for the Tamils?
The author seems to eulogize Rajapakshe, whose crimes of Genocide was confirmed by his Army Chief who was imprisoned by Rajapakshe.
Suggest ways for the Tamils to live peacefully with out the threat of booming guns and the freedom to learn their language.
Make them stop raping, killing and massacring the Tamil people.
Have you seen the ‘Killing Fields’
You might say it is doctored.
It is not difficult to convince an honest dissenter but a wilful one ..?
People must have a conscience.
* though , not one who can write flowery prose, let me add that I have not shied away from criticising the LTTE and its methods, nor have I shied away from stating that Rajapashe Government must be indicted.
P.S. Nice of you to have used Rajapakshe’s photo in the blog, it tells one more about you)
Story.
Through history, few countries in the world have had to endure a terrorist movement as protracted, vicious and intense as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) campaigns, which lasted over thirty three years and killed, on some estimates, up to 80,000 people, in a tiny country with a present population of under 21 million.
Few countries in the world have secured as clear and demonstrable victory over terrorism as has Sri Lanka, even where extraordinary and indiscriminate violence has been inflicted on large populations, as, for instance, in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where civilian settlements have been repeatedly targeted, and ‘collateral damage’ often overruns any rational proportion to legitimate targets.
And few countries in the world have restored normalcy with the speed and to the extent that Sri Lanka has in under three years. There has not been a single terrorism related fatality in the country since October 3, 2009, to the present, bringing peace to a people who had forgotten its contours over decades. Of the estimated 290,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), resulting from the final phase of the conflict, just 6,647 (roughly 2.3 per cent) had been left to return to their places of origin by the end of 2011. On March 15, 2012, Economic Development Minister Yapa Abeywardana claimed that over 99 per cent of the IDPs had been resettled. More significantly, of the 11,700 LTTE cadres who had surrendered, 10,490 had been freed and reunited with their families, after the completion of their rehabilitation process, as on March 29, 2012. The last remaining group of ex-LTTE cadres is scheduled for release by mid-2012, after completion of a mandatory 12-month rehabilitation and retraining process. The war ravaged North and East have also seen dramatic developmental transformations, with massive infrastructure and rehabilitation investments catalysing a 22 per cent rate of growth for the region, according to official claims, as against eight per cent for the entire country.
Crucially, a remarkable resurrection of democratic processes and structures has been secured across the country, with General, Presidential, Provincial and local body elections conducted across the country.
At the height of the final phase of the counter-terrorism campaign in the North, which eventually brought the LTTE terror to an end in May 2009, Norway and other European interlocutors had repeatedly used the threat of initiative processes for ‘war crimes’ and ‘human rights violations’ against the Sri Lankan state, to force the Colombo to end its increasingly successful operations against the LTTE, even as Velupillai Prabhakaran, the then LTTE Chief, and the besieged terrorist cadres surrounded themselves with a human shield of civilians to thwart Security Force (SF) operations. As President Mahinda Rajapakse declared unambiguously on May 22, 2009, “There are some who tried to stop our military campaign by threatening to haul us before war crimes tribunals. They are still trying to do that, but I am not afraid.” This group of minor and frustrated European powers have now roped in the US to push an agenda that they failed to impose through a perverse ‘peace process’, which kept a virulent terrorist movement alive for years, with increasing international sanction and legitimacy.
This is the essence of the gratuitous resolution passed by United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on March 22, 2012, by a vote of 24 in favour, 15 against and eight abstentions. Crucially and disgracefully, at the last moment, India chose to cast its vote in support of a hypocritical, divisive and essentially unproductive resolution that demanded, among other things, that Sri Lanka “present, as expeditiously as possible, a comprehensive action plan detailing the steps that the Government has taken and will take” to implement “the constructive recommendations in the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission” (LLRC).
It is significant that India had dithered almost to the last moment on its vote, and eventually decided to go with the US sponsored resolution because of domestic political considerations – increasing pressures from the United Progressive Alliance Government’s ally, the Tamil Nadu regional party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). This has been duly noted by the leadership in Colombo, with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris, observing,
The most distressing feature of this experience is the obvious reality that voting at the Human Rights Council is now determined not by the merits of a particular issue but by strategic alliances and domestic political issues in other countries which have nothing to do with the subject matter of a Resolution or the best interests of the country to which the Resolution relates. This is a cynical negation of the purposes for which the Human Rights Council was established.
Peiris’ obvious reference was to the UPA’s conundrum with political allies in the State of Tamil Nadu. As usual, and despite its vote against Sri Lanka, New Delhi continued in its efforts to straddle two boats at once, seeking credit for ‘diluting’ the content of the draft resolution to make it ‘non-intrusive’, even as the official spin, thereafter, has sought to justify the decision to vote in favour of the resolution on the grounds that the process for devolution of power was “not moving forward” in Sri Lanka. One unnamed ‘official source’ stated in the media, “Many promises were made (by Sri Lanka) but very little has been done. The rehabilitation process has proceeded well, in fact better than in countries like Cambodia but the political process is not happening. The devolution (of power) is not moving forward.”
This, then, appears to be the crux of India’s official justification for its feckless vote: that Colombo has failed to implement a formula for devolution of power in the North and East which would be acceptable to all Tamil groupings in the country (and their sympathisers in India). But adopting the political objective – devolution of power – of one ethnic grouping as the minimum definition of ‘resolution’ of the conflict in Sri Lanka is both arbitrary and absurd. The issue of devolution of power is a purely domestic political issue and, whatever their divergent preferences, no other country or international institution has any business telling the Sri Lankans how they should govern themselves, or what shape they must give to their Constitution. Certainly not India, which has numberless difficulties in accommodating the aspirations of its own many ethnic, religious, linguistic and regional minorities, and which has dealt with utter inhumanity with the millions who have been displaced by predatory development processes initiated and supported by the state, as well as with IDPs from a multiplicity of conflicts in different regions, where significant populations remain, often in utter destitution, in primitive ‘relief camps’, at least in some cases, decades after the proclaimed end of a conflict. New Delhi, in any event, has no more business interfering in domestic arrangements for devolution of power in Sri Lanka, than Colombo has intervening in fractious Centre-State relations in India.
Sri Lanka LTTE Joni Mine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It is obvious that both LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka were equally engaged in inhuman practices.
While the one,LTTE,is reported to have been wiped out(claimed by the Sri Lankan Government),The Government is going scot-free.
It has to be punished by the International Community.
Report:
The following allegations with respect to children and armed conflict during
the reporting period have been reported:
February 16 – An organization reported that the LTTE was attempting to
recruit by force all boys and girls aged 14 years or older in the LTTEcontrolled territory.
February 23 – Several organizations reported to Embassy Colombo that their
sources reported ongoing LTTE forced recruitment of children. Another
source stated that a young person who resisted being forcibly recruited had
both his arms broken by the LTTE as punishment.
March 3 – An organization received a report from a source in the NFZ that
the LTTE was recruiting children as young as 12-years-old.
March 7 – An organization reported that a source in Mullaittivu witnessed
the LTTE abduction of children ages 12 to 16. The source saw the LTTE
marching many children away.
March 16 – An organization’s source in Mullaittivu reported that those
recruited by the LTTE included male and female children as young as 14.
March 17 – A Human Rights Watch (HRW) source in the Vanni reported
that an angry mob formed following the death of two children caused by an
LTTE recruitment unit. In a similar story, the nationalist daily newspaper
Island reported that LTTE cadres shot the parents of a child whom they
made an abortive bid to abduct, and then shot the child. This incident
sparked violent protests by the civilians, who forced the cadres to retreat.
Embassy Colombo noted that this report is consistent with earlier
information regarding retaliation against the LTTE by civilians in the NFZ.
March 18 – A source who escaped the conflict zone reported that anyone
aged 12 or older was eligible for forced labor and recruitment by the LTTE.
March 21-24 – HRW sources in the conflict zone reported that the LTTE
rounded up over 400 youths who had sought refuge in Valaiganar Catholic
Church, and immediately took the children to training camps by bus. A
similar account was reported by another organization’s local source on
March 23; this source estimated the number of youths taken at over 250.
March 23 – An organization received a report from a local source that the
LTTE was recruiting children aged 12.
March 23 – Organizations with sources in the conflict zone provided to
Embassy Colombo some details on communications from the NFZ,
including reports that the LTTE forcibly recruited individuals, including
children, and killed those who resisted orders. They noted that for the
LTTE, ―age is not an issue anymore for recruitment/building defenses.‖[13]
Report to Congress on Incidents During the Recent Conflict in Sri Lanka
March – A source reported that the LTTE forcibly recruited people
regardless of gender or age, including those in their early teens. …….
A number of sources alleged that the GSL committed unlawful killings.
There is video footage showing purported evidence of GSL soldiers killing captive
Tamils in January. Separately, multiple reports alleged that in the final few days of
fighting, between May 14 and May 18, senior LTTE leaders contacted
international representatives via satellite phone in an effort to broker a surrender
but were killed after they allegedly reached a surrender agreement with the GSL.
As reflected in common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, IHL prohibits
all violence to life and person, including murder, of armed forces who have laid
down their arms or are in detention.
The following allegations of killing of captives or combatants seeking to
surrender have been reported:
January – In late August an organization received a video clip from January
which allegedly showed the summary execution of nine bound and naked
Tamils by SLA soldiers. The video was supposedly filmed by a soldier
present at the scene. Since the video’s release, the GSL has analyzed the
clip and issued a statement identifying specific aspects of the video which it
claims proved it to be forged. However, there has been no independent
analysis of the footage.
February 1 – An organization received reports from local sources that young
men who managed to reach the government-established safe zones with their
families were being picked up by the military; their bodies were found
several days later. The organization opined that with no international or
independent third party presence in the camps, the military was able to act
with impunity, which was a reason why Tamil civilians were afraid to move
to government-controlled areas.
May 14-18 – An organization reported information from its sources that ―all
the LTTE persons remaining in the NFZ were massacred.‖ The GSL
maintains that these senior LTTE leaders in fact did not raise white flags or
give any indication to the SLA soldiers in their vicinity that they intended to
surrender, but instead continued fighting and were subsequently killed in the
ensuing final battle.
May 18 – Embassy Colombo, as well as press and foreign governments,
received reports that LTTE political leaders Nadesan and Puleedevan, along
with other LTTE leaders, were killed while surrendering to GSL forces……
The GSL pledged to provide sufficient food and medical supplies to people
in IDP camps and to those people still trapped in the NFZ. On February 17, the
Senior Presidential Advisor announced a commitment to provide 80-100 metric
tons (MT) of food per day to civilians, and that medicine would be included in the
next shipment of supplies. In early March the GSL Presidential Secretariat issued
a statement saying that there had been no case of any citizen in the north of Sri
Lanka dying from starvation and that the GSL would take all measures to prevent
such a tragic occurrence.
12
Later that month the Minister of Health Care and
Nutrition stated that the GSL continued to send enough medical and essential food
supplies and ―won’t stop sending medical and food supplies‖ despite the possibility
that the LTTE was confiscating supplies for its own cadres.
13
However, while some incidents reported in this section cite deliveries of up
to 500 MT of foodstuffs to the NFZ, the majority point to significant gaps between
food, medicine, and clean water needs and the available supplies in the NFZ and
IDP camps. These reports include instances of severe food shortages, malnutrition,
particularly among the very young and old, as well as surgeries being performed
with little or no anesthetic. (See Appendix A, photo 9.)
NFZ Estimated Population, Food Needs, Food Delivered, and Food Deficit
Month GSL Pop
(estimated)*
Food
needs**
Food
delivered
Accum
Food
deficit
International
pop estimate
Food
needs
Food
delivered
Accum
Food
deficit
February 70,000 980 150 -830 250,000 3500 150 -3350
March 50,000 775 1080 -525 230,000 3565 1080 -5835
April 50,000 775 1119 -181 150,000 2325 1119 -7041
May
(20 days)
20,000 200 50 -331 80,000 720 50 -7711
* It has been alleged that the GSL used low civilian estimates in the NFZ to reduce the amount
of food disbursed in an effort to pressure civilians to escape.
** Food needs and deficit estimates are based upon the estimation of several organizations that
one MT of food per day is needed for 2000 IDPs.
International humanitarian law recognizes that relief organizations may offer
their services in relation to victims of armed conflict, and the United States.
The Resolution moved by the US apparently censuring the Sri Lankan Government by has been passed by 24 for,15 against with eight absentions( 47 members).
India joined the countries in voting against Sri Lanka and immediately mollified Sri Lanka.
“Soon after the voting, the Indian foreign ministry put out a detailed note which placed its contentious decision in perspective.
The ministry stressed that ‘resolutions of this nature should fully respect the sovereign rights of states and contribute to Sri Lanka’s own efforts in this regard’. It pointed out that with thousands of years of cordial relations and deep rooted spiritual and cultural ties, India can’t cannot remain untouched by developments in the neighbouring country.
‘We will continue to remain engaged with Sri Lanka to take forward the process of reconciliation to secure for all its citizens a future marked by equality, dignity, justice and self-respect,’ the ministry said in New Delhi. Reminding Colombo to implement the recommendations of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) report, India said ‘there is a window of opportunity to forge a consensual way forward towards reconciliation through a political settlement respecting all ethnic and religious groups inhabiting the nation’.
India stressed that the LLRC report recognises that ‘a political solution is imperative and that the government of Sri Lanka should provide the leadership to this political process’.
” The fifth and final paragraph of the preamble of the US Resolution, immediately preceding its operative clauses, reads: “Noting with concern that the LLRC report does not adequately address serious allegations of violations of international law…”
It is to be noted that this provides an alibi for the Sri Lankan Government to question the other observations of the LLRC Report and may even shelve thr Report quoting this proviso!
“(1). Calls on the Government of Sri Lanka to implement the constructive recommendations in the LLRC report and take all necessary additional steps to fulfill its relevant legal obligations and commitment to initiate credible and independent actions to ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans,
(2) Requests that the Government of Sri Lanka present a comprehensive action plan as expeditiously as possible detailing the steps the Government has taken and will take to implement the LLRC recommendations and also to address alleged violations of international law.
This tantamount to the perpetrators to rectify /address issues created by them. how illogical can one be?
‘and also violations of International Law’-this gives room for Sri Lanka to drag LTTE into the picture and muddy the water further.
“(3) “Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant special procedures to provide, and the Government of Sri Lanka to accept, advice and technical assistance on implementing those steps and requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to present a report to the Council on the provision of such assistance at its twenty-second session.”
That is to say the Government of Sri Lanka shall advise(supposed to accept and advice UNHRC Commissioner at the same time -how contradictory?) shall use the UNHRC High Commissioner as an Agent of the Government of Sri Lanka.
Instead of UNHRC dictating terms , it will be the Sri Lankan Government that shall dictate the UNHRC.
I often hear my elder brother say ‘if you have to scold some one, scold them in such a way that it does not hurt them’
It is really strange that SrI Lankans do not seem to realize the enormity of the Genocide and this can be seen from the Petition organised by the Sri Lankan Youth(?)
“The United States draft resolution (A/HRC/19/L.2) on Sri Lanka was tabled at the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Councilin Geneva on 8 March 2012.This resolution, is being brought up to address the alleged “war crimes” supposed to have occurred during the humanitarian mission to save innocent civilians from the terror of the inhumane terrorist organization calling itself the “Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)”.
The resolution;
1. Calls upon the Government of Sri Lanka to implement the constructive Recommendations made in the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission and to take all necessary additional steps to fulfil its relevant legal obligations and commitment to initiate credible and independent actions to ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans;
2. Requests the Government of Sri Lanka to present, as expeditiously as possible, a comprehensive action plan detailing the steps that the Government has taken and will take to implement the recommendations made in the Commission’s report, and also to address alleged violations of international law;
3. Encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant special procedures mandate holders to provide, and the Government of Sri Lanka to accept, advice and technical assistance on implementing the above-mentioned steps, and requests the Office of the High Commissioner to present a report on the provision of such assistance to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session.
The passing of this resolution will have the effect of;
1) Breaching Article 2(7) of the Charter of the United Nations which states “Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state”
2)Completely jeopardizing the core concepts of International Law and breaching Article 2(1) of the Charter of the United Nations, which ensure the sovereign equality of all its Members, since no such resolution has been brought up against the US (sponsor of the current resolution) for allegations of Human Rights Violations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
3) Violating the sovereignty and integrity of Sri Lanka.
4) Hindering the effort of the Sri Lankan government in its reconciliation efforts to ensure equality among all races and the post war development process.
5) Taxing the resources of the United Nations since the government of Sri Lanka has already made substantial progress in implementing the recommendations of the LLRC report which makes it unnecessary for a process as recommended.
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