Commonwealth criticised for holding Sri Lanka meeting
Politics.co.uk – By Alex Gangitano
The Commonwealth’s decision to hold a heads of government meeting in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo was wrong, according to a new report.
A foreign affairs committee report today looked at evidence of serious human rights abuses in the country, whose capital is to hold the 2013 Commonwealth heads of government meeting.
The committee urged the prime minister to publically refuse to attend the meeting unless he receives “convincing and independently-verified evidence of substantial and sustainable improvements in human and political rights in Sri Lanka”.
The country’s 26-year-long civil war ended in 2011, but hundreds of people remain detained.
Arbitrary and illegal detention and enforced disappearances are routine in Sri Lanka.
The report said the moral authority of the Commonwealth has “too often been undermined by the repressive actions of member governments”.
Politics.co.uk
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In a way, they are correct.
Unfortunately, GoSL creates problems within the problem knowingly or unknowingly. Whatever way, it is not acceptable. The Opposition highlights them and plays right into the hands of the western countires that are waiting like a bunch of wolves to attack Sri Lanka.
I Totally agree with you Nihal. Unfortunately our oppostion does not care for our motherland. They all have their own agendas and will play right in to the hands of the western countries that are the biggest culprits who fight wars that are not their concern and yet worry about what is happening in our country. It is a very sad stuation and if our prople keep going on the way they are going the westerners will have their way in our country.
This news item does not identify the country; I believe it is the UK.
Well, if they are not coming, they are not coming. We cannot do anything about it.
The meeting will take place as planned. Kamlesh Sharma, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth is very supportive of our nation. With his interest, the meeting will proceed.
If Cameron doesn’t come, so be it. I wonder who the Queen will send as a representative. I hope it is not those young folks who walk around without clothes.
Well said Chumpa, all visitors should sign up to a strictly enforceable code of conduct based on Mahinda Chinthana and Buddhist principles.
We do not like to see our young men and women being lured into Hotel rooms by the commonwealth delegates.
The English royalty is scraping the bottom of their barrels to find a successor to Queen
The English royalty is scraping the bottom of their barrels to find a successor to the present Queen.Legal heir is disqualified and anyway not interested in its pomp and glory.By skipping a generation they might well land themselves in a pool of playboys.If Cameron and his henchmen do not want to come over here let them be where they are.If Cameron comes let him bring back a sizeable amount of archaelogical wealth plundered from us by his ancestors.