No need for resolution as SL already implementing LLRC recommendations – Samarasinghe
There is no need for a resolution on Sri Lanka calling for the implementation of the LLRC’s recommendations as this is already being done by the Government, Plantation Minister and President’s Special Human Rights Envoy Mahinda Samarasinghe said addressing the 19th session at the UN Human Rights Council a short while ago.
Samarasinghe reminded the council that the LLRC obtained statements openly and freely hence making the statements verifiable. This is unlike the UN Expert Panel report which took statements from individuals behind closed doors ensuring twenty years of anonymity to those providing claims, he added.
“This meant that the testimony could not be verified or tested for its probative value.”
“The LLRC Report, on the other hand, places before us material of the basis on which the Commissioners arrived at their conclusions, which are substantive and verifiable,” he pointed out.
Sri Lanka has already begun the implementation of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) in areas such as rehabilitation of former LTTE cadres, demining, detention of suspects, land issues, implementation of the language and a national consensus on the legitimate aspirations of all the communities in Sri Lanka, Samarasinghe stated.
He added that the Sri Lankan Government will implement the recommendation of the LLRC in a systematic and thorough manner.
Courtesy: Ada Derana / Pix by AP
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No need at all..!
Uk & us must have faced independent intl inquires about their gross violations of human rights since 100s of years before..!
This is small case us,we know need to worry anything what USA submit in UN council.We never killed any civillians,we never genocide any single person,so why we should afraid?All world know how cruel LTTE terror,they killed many many differents religeos peoples.
Bus,train,school,markets,airports and politicians LTTE terror were killed,this all must UN human rights council should reminds.
The thrust appears to be authenticity of the LLRC process versus that of the Darusman Report. this is a high risk strategy. With eminent figures in the World arena such as Tutu and Mary Robinson openly calling for an international investigation, GOSL will be better off going with their best friend, the US’s resolution in a supportive manner.
As Arap Karma states, the US resolution absolutely crushes the aspirations of the affected party. This approach is coincident with the GOSL approach of structured genocide.
It appears to be the end of the road for the tamils of Sri Lanka. Having crushed the uprising with military might supported by not less than 10 super nations, the UN is now out to crush the remnants of tamil nationalism with a resolution at the highest forum.
Navi Pilly appears to have recognised this initiative and kept silent on this matter in her opening address.
To whom these spoiled tamil terror supporters writing here..?
Poo daa paittiyan paandi..!
Who mind this stinking tamil terrors’ writings here..?
You mind fools that you may advise your own stinking people & fool them to collect more $ from them.
Don’t wast time to write for real srilankans.!
Ada parana bar… Don’t write in vain..! Useless fool..
To whom these spoiled tamil terror supporters writing here..?
Poo daa paittiyan paandi..!
Who mind this stinking tamil terrors’ writings here..?
You mind fools that you may advise your own stinking people & fool them to collect more $ from them.
Don’t wast time to write for real srilankans.!
Ada parana bar… Don’t write in vain..! Useless fool…!