Sunday April 15, 2012
| IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST |
| By Javid Yusuf |
 It would be unwise to brush aside the resolution adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council last month in Geneva as being of no consequence to Sri Lanka. We could choose to ignore it only at our own peril.The attempt to paint it as an innocuous resolution with the sole objective of 'encouraging us to implement the LLRC recommendations' was belied by the vigorous nature of the campaign that was carried out by the sponsors of the resolution and its supporters not only in Geneva but also in several capitals with high officials of the US and the European Union visiting such capitals. The high powered nature of the campaign was totally disproportionate to the 'innocuousness' of the resolution and should alert us to the fact that there may be more to it than meets the eye. Be that as it may, on the face of it, the resolution has succeeded in keeping Sri Lanka under international scrutiny at least until March next year. With the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights mandated by the resolution to submit a report to UNHRC next year and the Universal Periodic Review on Sri Lanka scheduled for the latter part of this year, Sri Lanka will remain in the international spotlight for sometime longer.read more.. |
