{"id":63155,"date":"2019-03-09T01:35:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63155"},"modified":"2019-03-09T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T06:35:03","slug":"sri-lankan-president-sirisena-renegades-on-pledges-given-to-un-human-rights-council-that-his-govt-would-investigate-allegations-of-human-rights-violations-during-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=63155","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan President Sirisena Renegades on Pledges Given to UN Human Rights Council That His Govt Would Investigate Allegations of Human Rights Violations During The War."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Lanka’s president went back Wednesday on pledges to the UN Human Rights Council to investigate war-time atrocities, saying he did not want to “re-open old wounds”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sri Lankan government troops were accused of killing at least 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians in the final months of the island’s 37-year guerrilla war that ended in May 2009.<\/p>\n

President Maithripala Sirisena said he will formally ask the United Nations rights body to reconsider a 2015 resolution which called for credible investigations into alleged atrocities.<\/p>\n

“It is a decade since we have established peace in this country,” Sirisena told reporters at his official residence in Colombo. “I want to tell them (the UN) not to pressure us.”<\/p>\n

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“What I want to tell them is don’t dig the past and re-open old wounds. Let us forget the past and ensure that we all live in peace.”<\/p>\n

Soon after coming to power in January 2015, Sirisena pledged to ensure accountability for war-time abuses.<\/p>\n

The UN has estimated that over 100,000 people were killed during the guerrilla war.<\/p>\n

Exactly two years ago, Sirisena bought two years from the UN rights body after a previous deadline ended without any progress in bringing war criminals to justice.<\/p>\n

A UN Human Rights Council resolution in October 2015 granted Sri Lanka 18 months to establish a credible investigation. The two-year extension expires this month with no results.<\/p>\n

Sirisena said he will send three of his senior party members to the UNHRC sessions in Geneva this month to plead on his behalf.<\/p>\n

“I hope they (the UN) will respond positively,” Sirisena said.<\/p>\n

Despite previous pledges to the UN, Sirisena has not set up any investigation.<\/p>\n

Top UN diplomats had expressed concern over “worryingly slow” progress by Colombo.<\/p>\n

Sirisena, a member of the majority Sinhalese community, received the support of the Tamil minority after promising accountability for excesses carried out by the largely Sinhalese military.<\/p>\n

The UN has acknowledged that Colombo made some positive advances on constitutional and legal reforms, limited land restitution and symbolic gestures towards reconciliation.<\/p>\n

But it has also cautioned that the measures taken under Sirisena were inadequate, lacked coordination and a sense of urgency.<\/p>\n

Courtesy:ECONOMY NEXT<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sri Lanka’s president went back Wednesday on pledges to the UN Human Rights Council to investigate war-time atrocities, saying he did not want to “re-open old wounds”. Sri Lankan government troops were accused of killing at least 40,000 ethnic Tamil civilians in the final months of the island’s 37-year guerrilla war that ended in May …<\/p>\n

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