Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha responding to the High Commissioner's Report on Sri Lanka, informed the UN Human Rights Council on 26th March 2014 that rather than encourage and support the ongoing reconciliation process in Sri Lanka, as well as the constructive engagement Sri Lanka continues to maintain with the Council, it was ironic that the draft resolution on Sri Lanka being mooted by some members of this Council, is reflective of the same partisan politicised agenda through its request to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to undertake "a comprehensive independent investigation". Assistance to this process by third party ‘experts’ whose mandate and credentials are far from clear; and its deliberate exclusion of a significant part of the duration of the terrorist conflict from the period under investigation via the introduction of a particular time frame, would be both precedent setting and prejudicial to the interests of all member and observer states of this Council in the future.
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Indians determined to fish in Lankan waters
Monday, 24th March 2014 By Zahrah Imtiaz As the fishermen from both, India and Sri Lanka gather to pray at the island of Kachchativu on 16 March, they not only bring their faith but all also their struggle to contin ...
LTTE’s evil axes at work again
By Shenali Waduge. Sunday, 23rd March 2014. This is a wakeup call for Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans. Juxtapose the calls for all military to be removed from Sri Lanka’s North and link that to the sudden e ...
On the hunt for Gopi-Army spokesman says LTTE activist’s escape is a ‘one-off’ incident, but still dangerous
March 23, 2014 By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Army Spokesperson, Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya, said the escape of K.P. Selvanayagam alias Gopi and Appan in Kilinochchi on 13 March, after shooting at a police ...
Ex-Tiger spills the beans on Elilan-Says, he saw Elilan walking around with a big sword dripping with blood in his hand, threatening the civilians not to flee
March 23, 2014 2:05 am By Our Jaffna Correspondent A former senior LTTE cadre, Yo Karnan, who has now turned writer in Jaffna, in one of his latest write-ups, recollecting the final moments of war in ...
US Under heavy fire
Daily News Saturday, March 22, 2014 (All day) Features Major issues of compliance with ICCPR US Under heavy fire “On My Watch” By Lucien Rajakarunayake On Human Rights and humane values in Geneva While the US is curr ...
Tharmapuram shooting : Search for Gobi and Revival of LTTE in North
Saturday, 22 March 2014 04:56 By D B S Jeyaraj Two pistol shots rang out in the afternoon of Thursday March 13, 2014 at No. 5 of the Indian Housing Scheme at Musalampitty in the Puliyampokkanai area of Tharmapuram regio ...