Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Cynical Argument on the UN Report!
We are living within a global community. Both international humanitarian law and human rights law are part of the international law to which Sri Lanka has undeniable obligations, moral, customary and legal. The rejection of the report is no excuse from those obligations. It is cynical and undiplomatic.
by Laksiri Fernando
( September 23, 2015, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) Former defeated president, and now a Kurunegala MP, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has issued a statement saying, “I think it would be appropriate to make known to the public my observations on the recently released report on Sri Lanka by the OHCHR.” Of course it is ‘appropriate,’ but he has not made much observations on the substance of the report going rambling on other matters. He says that ‘My government did not cooperate with this investigation for many reasons, foremost of which was that it was instituted outside the established procedure of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).”
