Sri Lanka: Behind the facade of accountability and reconciliation
By JS Tissainayagam Jul 16, 2013
Anxious to escape reprimand by the international community at the next UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions and Commonwealth heads of Government Meeting, Sri Lanka has arrested 12 persons in connection with the 2006 extrajudicial killing of five Tamil boys in Trincomalee. This however is only a façade. The government’s actual attitude to ending impunity in Sri Lanka and promoting reconciliation is evident not only in the glaring lapses in the way it is handling this case, but also in the recently-unearthed mass grave in Matale.
K.G. Kamalawathie holds portraits of her two sons as she stands at the place where her sons were said to be allegedly abducted by government security forcers on Dec. 19, 1989, in Matale, Sri Lanka, Friday, June 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
