Navi Pillay calls for international probe into war crimes in Sri Lanka
The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has called for an international probe into war crimes committed in Sri Lanka during the final stages of its ethnic conflict, according to a media report on Sunday. Her report, said to have been given to the Sri Lankan government recently, recommends setting up of an international inquiry mechanism to further investigate the alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law and monitor any domestic accountability process. The report also mentions emergence of new evidence on what happened in the final stages of the armed conflict, Colombo-based newspaper The Sunday Times, which claims to have accessed the report, said.
The report said she reiterates concerns about the continuing trend of attacks on freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association; rising levels of religious intolerance; and continued militarisation — points she had emphasised while wrapping up her week-long visit to Sri Lanka in August 2013.
Soon after, making her oral submission at the 24th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva in September, she set a March 2014-deadline for the government to engage in a credible national inquiry into reported cases of human rights violations failing which the international community would establish its own inquiry mechanism. The Sri Lankan government did not officially respond to the report.
(The Hindu)
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It is time for us to pull out of the UN and UNHRC and all other UN agencies.
We should do this to honour the blood sacrifice of 30,000 Sinhala Buddhist youth to redeem the tamil speaking citizens from the grips of the World’s most ruthless terrorist, Velupillay Prbaharan.
Navi Pillay and the stupid bureaucrats of the UN and the US State Department spare no thought for the lost souls of the 30,000 lives sacrificed to get rid of the Tiger menace from the face of the earth.
If not for this sacrifice of the 30,000 young men and women, Navi Pillay and the rest of the World could not have visited NP as they did in the past few months.
I was 5 years old when the first shots rang from terrorist guns in the early 80’s. I am a war child; I lived and grew under constant presence of Army Khaki, the sound of guns, the thunder of bombs and the constant wailing of those close to youth who lost their lives.
I will never be able to forget the 30 years of my life under the tamil terrorist cloud. That has ruined the sap of my soul; there’s no joy in my life; there will never be any.It is only blood and tears, torn limbs and headless bodies.
And Navi Pillay is shuffling a bunch of papers seeking redemption; redemption for whom? At least, it wouldn’t be for me. For I am a war child. Is Navi Pillay a mother? I am sure she’s not for it is only a mother who can feel the pain of a war child.
“It is time for us to pull out of the UN and UNHRC and all other UN agencies.”
I think it is foolish to pull out of the UN. But we should definitely get out of the UNHRC if it bother only about Tamils not Sinhalese too.
Indra,
The goni billa is coming for you in March.