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Sri Lanka accepts UN criticism of camps: minister
Thursday, 1 October 2009 - 9:58 PM SL Time
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Sri Lanka on Thursday said it accepted much of the United Nations` recent criticism over its handling of 250,000 Tamils detained in camps since the end of the island`s ethnic conflict six months ago.
Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe pledged the government would address recommendations made by Walter Kaelin, a representative of the United Nations secretary-general, who last week toured the detention facilities.
`He (Kaelin) said a lot of factual things like getting the sewer and sanitation right on an urgent basis and to make things comfortable for those living inside the camps,` Samarasinghe told AFP.
`It is a very positive statement. We take these things in the right spirit.`
The government has vowed to re-settle all people displaced during the decades of war by January, but international aid and human rights groups have questioned its commitment to the welfare of Tamil civilians.
Kaelin spent five days visiting the overcrowded camps and holding talks with officials.
He asked Sri Lanka to comply with its international obligations and said a clash at the weekend between troops and detainees raised serious human rights issues.
Sri Lanka has resisted repeated calls to close the camps, saying it needed more time to weed out former Tamil Tiger rebel fighters.
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noordeen
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 1 Oct 2009 15:03:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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Well done brave Lanka.............
Now it is time to all to get together & work towards to betterment of Lanka and these poor peoples......
Lets see what is the reaction from the dispora & how they are going to contribute to this...........
Edited By - noordeen - 1 Oct 2009 15:05:38 GMT |
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 1 Oct 2009 15:07:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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Lets see what is the reaction from the dispora & how they are going to contribute to this....
Wishful thinking, I'm afraid. All they ever wanted was Eelam. |
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1 Oct 2009 15:12:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article26542.ece?homepage=true |
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1 Oct 2009 15:16:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Baka,
Soon as you brought the link, nadu mootan ran away!
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1 Oct 2009 15:17:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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Baks,
ROFL! A friend of mine sent me to that link just a few hours ago. Notice an old man is also lying there with the women waiting for the whip. I do wonder who he could be :)))) |
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 1 Oct 2009 15:21:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Good way of handling whiners of the IC. Good foreign policy.
anyway, I am not that sympathetic to these MAKKAL PADAIs from Maaveerar families, Suicide bomber trainees and Chickened out LTTE cadres.
They believing until the Last moment that Velu would turn around things and they would get the highest places in their Peelam.
Their DREAM went wrong. Even after the defeat they attack Soldiers and do every kind of trick in the book.
They are defiant.
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 1 Oct 2009 15:26:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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Bakamoona, old chap, await the speech from Ms. Hillary Clinton on cruel and degrading treatment of women in places like Tamil Nadu. I am afraid you will still be waiting after hell has frozen over.
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1 Oct 2009 15:39:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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it needed more time to weed out former Tamil Tiger rebel fighters
same old same old... |
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1 Oct 2009 16:12:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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Paula,
Did you expect us to just let them go without checking on them? Not very sensible, don't you think? |
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