International civil society urged to act on CHOGM meet in Sri Lanka
Commonwealth parliamentary delegates visiting Jaffna, received by the occupying Sinhala military commander Maj Gen Mahinda Hathurusinghe [Photo courtesy: Sri Lanka Army in Jaffna]
[TamilNet, Friday, 14 September 2012, 21:38 GMT]
After seeing the behaviour of today’s establishments in the Commonwealth that was once known for its effective action against South Africa’s apartheid, and after seeing the Indian diplomat turned Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma stretching his position to uphold the genocidal state and regime in Sri Lanka, the gagged Eezham Tamil civil society activists in the island urged the International Human Rights Organizations to come out with an international civil society boycott of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meet scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka in November 2013. They also urged understanding governments in Canada, Tamil Nadu state and elsewhere to lead the international civil society paradigm, and the international media to help such a paradigm. The diaspora should be awakened to new struggle strategies, they further urged.
Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma visiting Colombo this week urged Canada to drop its boycott move of the CHOGM meet in Sri Lanka in November 2013.Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s stand is that he would not attend the meet unless Sri Lanka addresses the war crimes charges. During the CHOGM meet at Perth last year, Canada and Australia were vocal at Sri Lanka’s accountability issue and Canada opposed the Sri Lanka venue of the 2013 meet.
Commonwealth parliamentarians hosted in SL occupied Jaffna
