07/09/2011Sustainable peace and minority rights are still a challenge two years on from the end of the conflict in Sri Lanka which lasted more than 30 years. That’s the view of Bishop Norbert Andradi, secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka.
In a recent speech marking the 40th anniversary of the Centre of Society and Religion in Columbo, the Bishop said “there is a certain inability to accept that this is a multi-language, multi-religion and multicultural society”.
Lydia O’Kane spoke to Bishop Andradi about the challenges the country faces and his hopes for lasting peace.
He told her that “ we continue to hope and it’s a very arduous process but we need to move ahead with all this”. Listen
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Wed, Sep 7, 2011
In a recent speech marking the 40th anniversary of the Centre of Society and Religion in Columbo, the Bishop said “there is a certain inability to accept that this is a multi-language, multi-religion and multicultural society”.
Lydia O’Kane spoke to Bishop Andradi about the challenges the country faces and his hopes for lasting peace.
He told her that “ we continue to hope and it’s a very arduous process but we need to move ahead with all this”. Listen
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Sri Lanka to respond to Amnesty International report 'appropriately'
Wed, Sep 7, 2011Wed, Sep 7, 2011, 07:31 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Sept 07, Colombo: Responding to a report released Wednesday by the Amnesty International (AI) on Sri Lanka's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) the Sri Lankan government said it will respond to the report appropriately after carefully studying it.
The External Affairs Ministry official has said that since AI is an independent body it can put out any reports as they wish.
"AI is an independent body and can put out any reports that it wishes. After having looked at the report carefully we will respond appropriately," a Ministry official has told local media.
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