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Terrorism suspects were held in camps in northern Sri Lankaunder the emergency laws
Human Rights Watch has urged Sri Lanka to repeal detention laws which the campaign group describes as abusive.Long-standing emergency laws expired last week, two years after Sri Lanka’s decades-long war against Tamil Tiger rebels.
The laws had given the authorities sweeping powers, including the right to detain terror suspects without charge.
But HRW accuses Sri Lanka of maintaining “draconian” legislation which gives it similar powers.
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SEP 09, 2011
A senior leader of Communist Party of Sri Lanka today met the top brass of CPI and discussed issues related to the Tamil question in that country and its political solution.
Dew Gunasekara, General Secretary of Communist Party of Sri Lanka, met CPI leaders D Raja and S Sudhakar Reddy here during which Indo-Sri Lanka ties also came up for discussion.
The leaders of the two parties, which have been working closely on several issues, deliberated at length on the possible political solution to the ethnic Tamil question in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan Government is working on a political solution for minority Tamils after the end of the decades-old civil war and India has been nudging Colombo to "quickly follow-up" the military victory with a political solution.
"The Tamil question came up for discussions. We tried to understand each other's perspective on several issues. The Communist Party of Sri Lanka also wants the issue to be resolved through a political solution based on the 13th Amendment of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka accord," Raja said.
Raja said the CPI leaders raised the issue of alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan forces during the last phase of the civil war.
"From our side, we also raised violation of human rights by the Sri Lankan armed forces and the issue of people being kept in camps even two years after the end of the war," he said.
Human Rights Watch has urged Sri Lanka to repeal detention laws which the campaign group describes as abusive.The laws had given the authorities sweeping powers, including the right to detain terror suspects without charge.
But HRW accuses Sri Lanka of maintaining “draconian” legislation which gives it similar powers.
Continue reading the main story
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Communist Party of SL Hold Talks with CPI Leaders
SEP 09, 2011A senior leader of Communist Party of Sri Lanka today met the top brass of CPI and discussed issues related to the Tamil question in that country and its political solution.
Dew Gunasekara, General Secretary of Communist Party of Sri Lanka, met CPI leaders D Raja and S Sudhakar Reddy here during which Indo-Sri Lanka ties also came up for discussion.
The leaders of the two parties, which have been working closely on several issues, deliberated at length on the possible political solution to the ethnic Tamil question in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan Government is working on a political solution for minority Tamils after the end of the decades-old civil war and India has been nudging Colombo to "quickly follow-up" the military victory with a political solution.
"The Tamil question came up for discussions. We tried to understand each other's perspective on several issues. The Communist Party of Sri Lanka also wants the issue to be resolved through a political solution based on the 13th Amendment of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka accord," Raja said.
Raja said the CPI leaders raised the issue of alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan forces during the last phase of the civil war.
"From our side, we also raised violation of human rights by the Sri Lankan armed forces and the issue of people being kept in camps even two years after the end of the war," he said.
