Pillay “deeply alarmed” at clashes in Sri Lanka
Navi Pillay, the outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed deep alarm on Monday at the inter-communal violence in Sri Lanka.
“The Government must urgently do everything it can to arrest this violence, curb the incitement and hate speech which is driving it, and protect all religious minorities,” the High Commissioner said in a statement.
“I am very concerned this violence could spread to Muslim communities in other parts of the country,” she said, urging authorities to immediately bring the perpetrators of such attacks to book and make it clear to the religious leadership on both sides, and to political parties and the general public, that there is no place for inflammatory rhetoric and incitement to violence.
During her visit to Sri Lanka in August 2013, and in her subsequent reports to the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner warned about the rising level of attacks against religious minorities and the incitement of violence by Sinhala Buddhist nationalist groups. In March 2014 the Human Rights Council too expressed its alarm at the significant surge in attacks against members of religious minority groups in Sri Lanka, including Hindus, Muslims and Christians.
(The Hindu)
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If she had deeply alarmed by three people dieing in SL in religious violence, given the scale of sectarian killing in Iraq as soon as US/UK led invasion happened, and the killing happened in Libya after the west backed party toppled Quadaffi, killing is gong on Sudan for some years, Pillai must have had repeated heart-attacks and must have spent in the intensive care all her career life.
The UNHRC has failed under the leadership of M/s Navi Pillay.
The US and its Coalition of the Willing went ahead against the opinion of the International Community and fought a war against the Citizens of Iraq spending countless billions of dollars.
Now, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, commander of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), controls large parts of eastern Syria and western Iraq, a vast cross-border haven for militants in the Sunni Muslim core of the Middle East.
The militants are knocking on the door of Baghdad and soon will commence establishment of an Islamic State.
This transition has come at a cost of the lives of countless Iraqi’s. Isn’t this a sign of failure on Navi Pillay?