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UN rights body wants access to civilians to investigate war crimes...

Monday, 11 June 2012 - 11:27 PM SL Time


The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is planning to hold discussions with civilians who testified before the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, highly-placed External Affairs Ministry sources said.

Sources added that the discussions might be conducted through third party human rights bodies active in Sri Lanka, if a formal request were to be denied by the Sri Lankan government.

This comes in the wake of a request made by the OHCHR to send a team of officials on a fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka, ahead of a planned visit by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Navi Pillay.

Sources added that the request by the OHCHR to conduct discussions would impact on the request made for an advance team to visit Sri Lanka ahead of Pillay`s visit, but were not able to confirm whether a formal request has been made for the interviews.

The LLRC`s report stated that some surrendering cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have since disappeared, and sources said that the OHCHR team are hoping to have detailed discussions with those who testified to the LLRC on the matter.

Nationalistic Sri Lankan political elements have expressed dissatisfaction over the proposed visit by Pillay.

Sri Lanka`s External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris during a recent visit to the United States, held discussions with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and Clinton requested Colombo to provide assistance to the visit by Pillay.

The United States has been pushing for accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, and the Ambassador Designate, Michele Sison, said that accountability and reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka would also be on the top of her priorities if she takes office in Colombo.

The US in March managed to secure the required votes to adopt resolutions at the human rights council, which also called for accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, along with the full implementation of the LLRC report`s recommendations.

Peiris during his visit to the US presented Clinton with a plan of action, which sets out areas of the LLRC`s report which the Sri Lankan government would implement.

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chennaiguuy
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 		LK Information  11 Jun 2012 16:50:23 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Sources added that the discussions might be conducted through third party human rights bodies active in Sri Lanka, if a formal request were to be denied by the Sri Lankan government.



What happened to so called Sinhala Soverigneity !

LOL !

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 		LK Information  11 Jun 2012 17:56:27 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Sources added that the discussions might be conducted through third party human rights bodies active in Sri Lanka, if a formal request were to be denied by the Sri Lankan government.


It is Hilary aka Hitler who wanted it that way.

I wonder where the human rights are when they bombed wedding parties in Afghanistan and when they converted 500,000 women in Baghdad to prostitiutes.
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TN students seek better toilets, amenities in schools


LOL. poopnadu remains always poopnadu. this is really never endng story. Can someone build the damnnn toilets for those poor kids.

http://www.asianage.com/chennai/tn-students-seek-better-toilets-amenities-schools-181
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I wonder where the human rights are when they bombed wedding parties in Afghanistan


Does Sinhala lanka have the BALLS to move UNHRC against USA for these War Crimes...???

Can someone build the damnnn toilets for those poor kids.


The Next Generation knows abt Sanity n other basic necessities...

This is a good beginning ... !

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 		LK Information  12 Jun 2012 10:38:06 GMT  Report for Abuse  
UN rights body wants access to civilians to investigate war crimes..


For the first time ever!

The Next Generation knows abt Sanity n other basic necessities...

This is a good beginning ... !


It took Tamils 10,000,000,000,000 years to finally realize the importance of bathroom hygiene? What an advanced civilization!
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 		LK Information  12 Jun 2012 11:21:38 GMT  Report for Abuse  
The Next Generation knows abt Sanity n other basic necessities...

This is a good beginning ... !

As usual, this is theory only no practice. Indian economy is going down the drain. It is already the lowes rated of BRIC countries, growth has slowed down alarmingly and inflation is rising fast. S&P rating for India currently BBB is about to go down to junk rating, today's new says. Sorry boy, your poor brothers and sisters will have to wait ANOTHER generation to cr4p in privacy and comfort.
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 		LK Information  12 Jun 2012 11:34:18 GMT  Report for Abuse  
For your own enlightenment Mr. CG, here is an extract from an article in today's Financial Times.

For the second time in just over a month, India has been hit with a toilet scandal but instead of a vast network of bureaucrats and middlemen filching over a billion dollars across the country, this one involves an elite economic policy arm of the government.

India s Planning Commission is no stranger to controversy last year, it came up with a novel approach to reducing the number of poor people in India: it lowered the poverty line to Rs26 (47 cents) a day.

This week it emerged that the folks determining who is poor enough to qualify for government subsidies are enjoying their own sort of government largesse, not with fancy cars or large mansions, but with toilets $54,000 worth to be exact.
In a country where over half of the population is forced to defecate in the open, toilets are a big deal. And when the bureaucrats spend a lot of money on their own thrones and initial reports indicate that the money was spent to upgrade just two key-card accessed toilets reserved for the commission s members a little outrage is, perhaps, warranted.
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 		LK Information  12 Jun 2012 13:19:42 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Your country needs your dollars. Below is an extract from the Economist magazine. The title of the article is 'Farewell to Incredible India'. Time to shut up, methinks.
IN A world economy as troubled as today s, news that India s growth rate has fallen to 5.3% may not seem important. But the rate is the lowest in seven years, and the sputtering of India s economic miracle carries social costs that could surpass the pain in the euro zone. The near double-digit pace of growth that India enjoyed in 2004-08, if sustained, promised to lift hundreds of millions of Indians out of poverty and quickly. Jobs would be created for all the young people who will reach working age in the coming decades, one of the biggest, and potentially scariest, demographic bulges the world has seen.

But now, after a slump in the currency, a drying up of private investment and those GDP figures, the miracle feels like a mirage. Whether India can return to a path of high growth depends on its politicians and, in the end, its voters. The omens, frankly, are not good.
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