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(Reuters) - Between 10,000 and 20,000 civilians were killed in the final months of Sri Lanka's civil war but a national inquiry has failed so far to investigate war crimes by both the army and Tamil rebels, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
The London-based human rights group called on the United Nations to establish a credible international investigation into the killings at the end of the quarter-century conflict in 2009. Full Story>>>
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Wednesday , September 7 , 2011
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THEREBY HANGS A TALE
Wednesday , September 7 , 2011| The inordinate delay in deciding on the mercy petition of death row convicts benefits no one, argues Hemchhaya De | ||
The short stay on the execution of death row convicts Perarivalan, Santhan and Murugan who were involved in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 has become an occasion to revisit the old debate on whether or not capital punishment should be outlawed in India. But one pertinent question that must also be asked here is — given that death sentences continue to be awarded in our country, why does it take so long to execute them? Some legal experts believe that if the system cannot function without such delays, it would only be just and humane to commute the punishment to life imprisonment. |
