November 19, 2011 by Gibson Bateman
Mahinda Buddhadasa Samarasinghe, Cabinet Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, addresses the 12th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
After three decades of war, Sri Lanka is still a mess. President Mahinda Rajapaksa could not care less about national reconciliation. Here is a president who did not hesitate to assert his authority at the end of the war. Yet now, he is afraid to be a strong and thoughtful leader, reluctant to take a stand.
The widespread human rights violations that occurred during final phases of the war (by both government forces and the LTTE) have been well-documented.
