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MP Karuna: `travesty of justice` - Amnesty International
Tuesday, 7 October 2008 - 9:01 PM SL Time
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Amnesty International (AI) has described the appointment of Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP) leader Vinayagamurthy Muralitharan, widely known as Karuna, to the Sri Lankan parliament as a travesty of justice.
Karuna who broke away from the Tamil Tigers in 2004 was sworn in as an MP on Tuesday after being appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
The newly sworn MP has committed `war crimes and crimes against humanity including child recruitment,` said AI in a statement issued from London.
It called upon the Sri Lankan state to promptly investigate allegations including `torture committed after March 2004 when Colonel Karuna is believed to have allied himself with the state armed forces`.
AI researcher on Sri Lanka, Yolanda Foster told BBC Sandeshaya that opposition parties should publicly review his case and seek judicial remedy against the appointment.
All major political parties, who boycotted the swearing in ceremony on Tuesday, have protested the appointment for various reasons.
`Immoral`
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has filed a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition against the appointment calling it `immoral`.
It says that the UPFA has no right to appoint an MP to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of JVP MP Wasantha Samarasinghe.
The JVP has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UPFA in the 2004 parliamentary election which saw the alliance win a majority.
`According to the Memorandum, vacancies in the parliament should be filled by the party which the MP belongs to,` JVP spokesman Vijitha Herath told the BBC Sinhala service.
Opposition and United National Party (UNP) leader, Ranil Wickramasinghe told journalists in Colombo that Karuna is not qualified to be a parliamentarian.
`Recruiting children`
Karuna has served a prison sentence in UK, the UNP leader said, and also accused of killing hundreds of policemen in the east while being a senior leader of the LTTE.
The opposition leader was referring to 600 policemen allegedly killed on Karuna`s orders in 1991.
The leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP -Mahajana Wing), Mangala Samaraweera, said that the opposition leader should be applauded for creating a split within the LTTE during the peace talks.
TMVP is yet to hand over weapons and accused of recruiting children for combat, he added.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2008/10/081007_karuna_mp.shtml
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MarkLevinson
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 7 Oct 2008 14:06:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has filed a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition against the appointment calling it 'immoral'.
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 7 Oct 2008 14:06:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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The Sinhal koti has published a news article!!!
and AI is getting payed by the diaspora while JEYADEVAN is tortured in a LTTE den.....
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 7 Oct 2008 14:07:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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Opposition and United National Party (UNP) leader, Ranil Wickramasinghe told journalists in Colombo that Karuna is not qualified to be a parliamentarian.
What are the required qualifications ???
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 7 Oct 2008 14:08:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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I wonder, why no any prominent UNP MP did not attend the opening of NEW UNP office in A'pura..! Even Ranil could have been there..!
Ranil may have known the impending attack, this benefits
Ranil more than MR. This will help keep Ranil in the helm of UNP for a long while. |
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7 Oct 2008 14:09:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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http://tinyurl.com/3lq6yx
But not all tamils will be pleased huh?? Is he gonna be a beginning for our ethnic solution?
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 7 Oct 2008 14:11:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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Well done!
The way to the Hague through the parliament is easier.
The way to the Hague along with those who sought his services in the Parliament is also imminent. |
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7 Oct 2008 14:11:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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To MarkLevinson
A sincere question.
Do you agree with the merger of North and East! |
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 7 Oct 2008 14:14:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Opposition and United National Party (UNP) leader, Ranil Wickramasinghe told journalists in Colombo that Karuna is not qualified to be a parliamentarian.
If Pirubha giveup the fighting and enter to politics...what will be these gay Mangala, gay Ranil and badu Rahuf Hakeem say.......?
Edited By - AstroLTTE - 7 Oct 2008 14:17:39 GMT |
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Definitely more qualified than Dr. Mervyn Silva
More Loans for jumbo cabinet???
Sri Lanka to raise US$300mn syndicated loan
Oct 07, 2008 (LBO) Sri Lanka has called proposals for a 300 million US dollar syndicated loan, with another 150 million US dollars now being negotiated, the government's debt office said.
The debt office, which is a unit of the Central Bank said the government wants to raise the equivalent of 300 million US dollars through a syndicated loan in any reserve currency from international markets.
About 16 billion rupees of foreign loans were also being negotiated, the central bank said in a statement.
This believed to include a 100 million US dollar loan from Citibank, which is expected to come via the state-run National Savings Bank to the government, as well as another 50 million US dollars from a foreign bank.
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 7 Oct 2008 14:17:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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Elaara Karuna and Mervin Duttagamunu are now next to each other in Lankan Best of Criminals den managed by Nava Parakramabahu Mahinda........Jayawewa
Todays's wanni photos over 25 weerayas made to R.I.P
http://www.puthinam.com/full.php?2e2YOAKcb33e6DBe4d45Vo6ca0bc4AO24d4yIm4200aWoMVRde22D1eW0cc3mcYAde
UK Protest dated 06/10/2008 by Lankan Tamils on GOSL War Crimes.
http://www.puthinam.com/full.php?2e33OELcb33f8Bze4d43Uq5cb0bjaJW34d4BNo7200bhpLPRde22D4j00cc3mg5Dde
http://www.tamilnaatham.com/photos/2008/oct/20081007/UK/
Edited By - PULI0007 - 7 Oct 2008 19:57:26 GMT |
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