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MarkSheridanstandard2011/08/04
at 6:28 AM ETWhat rubbish. typical of the NDP. Anything to get the immigration vote.Rating2Agree with comment (4 people agree)Disagree with comment (2 people disagree)ReplyPolicyReport abuse (0)
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Ossie Cstandard2011/08/04
at 5:53 AM ETCanada better look for the war criminals who fled to Canada after committing crimes in Sri Lanka. There are more shiploads on the way. War Criminals are no longer in Sri Lanka and they shall not step on Sri Lankan soil in the future. Rating8Agree with comment (11 people agree)Disagree with comment (3 people disagree)ReplyPolicyReport abuse (0)
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2009Canadianstandard2011/08/04
at 5:14 AM ETif Channel 4 were located in Sri Lanka, the editor would have been assulted or met which vans which involves in extrajudicial abducitons and killings. If a country does not respect human rights, then it should not be trusted. The defense secretary of Sri Lanka, shouted at the BBC reporter during in interview so the reported left sri lanka due to the threat to his life. Like Gadhafi, Sri Lanka has its own killing forces (para military) who carry out government order. Tamils in Sri Lanka are living at gun point. If anyone talk against war crimes, he/she would have been gone next day. That’s real democracy. The the more crimes against Tamils are committed, the more the support government of Sri Lanka enjoys among Sinhalese. It is not only Tamils, even Sinhales can’t speak the truth due the the threat to them. Many journalist have left Sri Lanka due the threats to their life. One of journalis is the Sunday Times’s defence columnist. Rating-2Agree with comment (7 people agree)Disagree with comment (9 people disagree)ReplyShow 1 replyPolicyReport abuse (0)
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David Jamesstandard2011/08/04
at 3:45 AM ETSorry dippers, we’ve got plenty of issues dealing with imported war criminals right here in Canada – you do remember Canada don’t you?Rating11Agree with comment (25 people agree)Disagree with comment (14 people disagree)ReplyPolicyReport abuse (0)
artonibus rexstandard2011/08/04
at 2:29 AM ETLast time I checked Sri Lanka was a country of its own working on its own issues. Would the interim NDP leader wish for the Sri Lankan govt to issue a statement on Quebec sovereignty?Rating15Agree with comment (35 people agree)Disagree with comment (20 people disagree)ReplyPolicyReport abuse (0)
needs war crimes tribunal, NDP says
Posted: Aug 3, 2011 6:47 PM ET
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Hundreds of Sri Lankan government supporters, including state-run media journalists, protested Aug. 2 in Colombo against the U.K.’s Channel 4 after the network aired a documentary with footage allegedly taken by front-line soldiers that appears to show blindfolded prisoners being shot at close range and the naked bodies of women being loaded into a tractor-trailer. (Eranga Jayawardena/Associated Press)
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Canada should press the United Nations to set up a tribunal in Sri Lanka to deal with suspected crimes against humanity, the NDP said Wednesday.
A United Nations report has already called on the organization to set up a commission to look into human rights violations committed by both the Sri Lankan military and the Tamil Tiger rebel group.
"Both sides need to acknowledge and take ownership of their actions and injustices that they have brought on their people," said NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan.
The NDP is petitioning the government to urge the UN to set up an independent, international and impartial mechanism to ensure truth, accountability and justice in Sri Lanka, NDP MP Wayne Marston said.
Thousands of people were killed in the final 2009 fight between the two sides, said Alex Neve, the head of Amnesty International in Canada.
"Justice must be real," he said. "Widespread abuses, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, were almost certainly committed by both sides."
Sri Lanka has set up a lessons learned commission, but it falls short of what’s needed, Neve said, with the government denying any responsibility for its part in the conflict.
There’s been no justice for previous human rights abuses, he added.
"There’s never been a price to pay. And thus when the political situation deteriorates or things go off the rails in any way, why wouldn’t all parties to the conflict revert to past patterns of abuse?"
In 2006, Canada added the Tamil Tigers to an official list of terrorist groups, making it illegal to fundraise for them.
A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said the government is deeply concerned about the situation in Sri Lanka, and that Canada expects the work of Sri Lanka’s reconciliation commission to continue.
"It’s about time the NDP starts paying closer attention to this issue; we have been active on it for years," Chris Day said in an email.
"We support calls for an independent investigation, as recommended by the UN Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka."
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