{"id":29052,"date":"2014-03-27T00:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T04:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29052"},"modified":"2014-03-27T00:17:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T04:17:43","slug":"sri-lankan-presidential-commission-on-disappearances-to-cover-indian-army-period-in-country-from-1987-to-1990-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29052","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Presidential Commission on Disappearances Mandate Extended to cover Indian Army Period in Country from 1987 to 1990 Also"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by<\/p>\n<p>Meera Srinivasan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan government has amended the time period for its Presidential Commission looking into cases of alleged disappearances in its Northern and Eastern Provinces to cover the 26 years 1983-2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission\u2019s earlier mandate spanned the period from 1990 to 2009, but the new time frame is of relevance to India, for it includes the period when then Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was active in Sri Lanka [1987-1990].<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The government made the announcement just a couple of days before member countries on the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva vote on a U.S.-backed resolution calling for an international probe in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sri Lankan government functionaries have, however, from the beginning of this year, made a few subtle and some obvious references to the role of the IPKF in connection with allegations of war crimes and human rights abuse in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga \u2014 who was then in Washington to lobby support ahead of the Human Rights Council session \u2014 said: \u201cIf there is an international investigation, the whole period has to be investigated \u2014 from the 1980s onward \u2014 which includes the two-year IPKF tenure, which will upset India,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In April 1990, soon after the IPKF offensive against the rebel Tigers, a group of four university teachers in Jaffna wrote the Broken Palmyrah, one of the few works till date that looks at the atrocities committed by allegedly the IPKF and various Tamil militant movements, including the LTTE, from a critical perspective.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCOURTESY:THE HINDU<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton29052\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D29052&amp;text=Sri%20Lankan%20Presidential%20Commission%20on%20Disappearances%20Mandate%20Extended%20to%20cover%20Indian%20Army%20Period%20in%20Country...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Meera Srinivasan The Sri Lankan government has amended the time period for its Presidential Commission looking into cases of alleged disappearances in its Northern and Eastern Provinces to cover the 26 years 1983-2009. The Commission\u2019s earlier mandate spanned the period from 1990 to 2009, but the new time frame is of relevance to India, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=29052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Sri Lankan Presidential Commission on Disappearances Mandate Extended to cover Indian Army Period in Country from 1987 to 1990 Also&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29054,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29052\/revisions\/29054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}