Sri Lanka, UN at loggerheads over human rights
Sri Lanka, UN at loggerheads over human rights
While President Mahinda Rajapaksa will paint “Paradise Island” in democratic colours for the General Assembly, the UN human rights commissioner will deliver a damning appraisal.
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A man reads a local newspaper with a front-page picture of C.V. Wigneswaran, the newly elected chief minister of Sri Lanka's Northern Province, in Jaffna on Sunday. The Tamil National Alliance triumphed in last weekend's election, the first in the majority-Tamil province in more than two decades.
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA—Twenty-four hours after Sri Lanka goes on the defensive at the United Nations in New York, the UN will go on the offensive against Sri Lanka in Geneva.
