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[The International Independent Group of Eminent People
(IIGEP) An International group experts and professionals from Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, France, Netherlands, US, European Union and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, headed by the former Chief Justice of India, P.N.Bhagwati, was appointed to monitor Sri Lankas Special Presidential Commission. The latter was appointed to investigate 16 cases of serious rights violations, including the August 2006 massacre of 17 local employees of the French charity Action Against Hunger (ACF). Arriving in Sri Lanka in May 2007, they saw no progress being made. This was obvious from the Report tabled by the American member of the Group at the Human Rights Council meeting in June 2007, which I attended. On 6 March 2008, the IIGEP decided to terminate its operation in Sri Lanka saying that The Presidential Commissions Public Inquiry Process fell short of International norms and standards. `There is a climate of threat, direct and indirect, to the lives of anyone who might identify persons responsible for human rights violations, including those who are likely to have been committed by the security forces.` `Civilian eye witnesses have not come forward to the Commission. Security forces witnesses preferred to make themselves look incompetent rather than just telling what they know. Accordingly, it is evident that the Commission is unlikely to be in a position to pursue its mandate effectively` the IIGEP statement said, describing them as inherent and fundamental impediments of the Commission. `The IIGEP is therefore terminating its role in the process not only because of the shortcomings in the Commissions work but primarily because the IIGEP identifies an institutional lack of support for the work of the Commission,` They could . This has been the most serious blow to the credibility of the GOSL. It is now up to us to contact the individual members of the former Commission and ask what further action they can take to stop the outrageous violation of human rights in Sri Lanka.] |
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