"SELF DETERMINATION IS KEY TO THE WORLD PEACE"
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September 4, 2011 – 3:31 am
If not for establishing accountability of alleged war crimes and human rights violations a genuine reconciliation between the victims and their loved ones on one hand and the perpetrators of the crimes on the other is possible only if the latter accept the guilt and redress for the pains and the trauma caused to the former. What is happening now is militarisation and Sinhalamisation of the areas of the victims. A fear psychosis is created by the mono-ethnic army deployed in those areas by using violence against any protest or dissent.
EU To Press Sri Lanka
By Easwaran Rutnam
G.L Peiris
The European Union (EU) is to press Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this month to address the issue of accountability over alleged human rights abuses committed during the final stages of the conflict.
Iulia Costea, the press officer of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, told The Sunday Leader that the EU also wants the Sri Lankan government to engage with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the contents of the report by a panel of experts, on the war in Sri Lanka.
“As EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has recalled, the EU believes that an independent process to address the extremely serious allegations contained in the report of the UN Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts should contribute to strengthening the process of reconciliation and ensuring lasting peace and security in Sri Lanka,” Costea told The Sunday Leader.
The EU had recently welcomed the government decision to remove the emergency regulations but Costea said the European Union continues considering the publication of the report of the UN Secretary-General ‘s Panel of Experts on accountability in Sri Lanka, as an important development.
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The UN panel report had concluded that there are credible allegations of major violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed by all sides in the conflict, during its final stages.
“Should this matter be discussed at the Human Rights Council, the EU will continue to encourage the Government of Sri Lanka to respond positively to the report and address the issue of accountability as an essential part of the process of national reconciliation and, in this context, to engage with the UNSG on the contents of the report,” Costea added.
A high level delegation led by External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris will travel to Geneva for talks with the President of the UN Human Rights Council and its member states prior to the formal sessions which will begin next week.
Minister of Plantation Industries and Special Human Rights Envoy Mahinda Samarasinghe will later lead the Sri Lankan delegation at the UN Human Rights Council session. Although the Council is not expected to discuss Sri Lanka as part of the agenda of the session, some member states are expected to raise concerns over Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile an online petition has been published on a British government website seeking an independent, international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka.
If 100,000 people sign the petition it will then be open for discussion in the British House of Commons. The petition calls on the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to support the establishment of an independent, international inquiry into the credible allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Sri Lanka during the final months of the armed conflict in 2009, as recommended in the ‘Report of the UN Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka’.
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