Government to present Northern census data to UNHRC

 Sunday, 19 January 2014

The data collected from the census carried out in the North and East will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in March.

The President’s special human rights envoy, Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe has said that the data will prove the wrong claims that over 40,000 civilians were killed during the final stages of the war.

However, questions have been raised over the methods applied by the Census and Statistics Department officials carrying out the census in the North and East over the material and human loss experienced during the period of the war.

The TNA has charged that the census was not carried out properly and that the officials have not collected proper data by omitting many crucial matters in its data collection.

The TNA has added that it will make separate representations to the UNHRC in March.