How Long Can Sri Lankan Government Hoodwink The UN & The International Community?
Kumarathasan Rasingam
The Sri Lankan State runs on Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism, the Maha Sanga and the Buddhist Clergy. The Sri Lankan State has to obtain the blessings of these people to enact any laws regarding devolution of powers to the Tamils in the North and East of Sri Lanka and the participation of foreign judges to investigate the war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces.
The President of Sri Lanka has openly said on several occasions that he will not allow anyone to punish any soldier who participated in the war. He also openly stated that he will never allow foreign judges or investigators to investigate the Sri Lankan soldiers.
The Government has shown no genuine interest in security sector reform. Pervasive militarization and the concomitant lack of accountability for past abuses have ensured that human rights violations in the country’s north and east remain widespread.
The Government has shown no genuine interest in security sector reform. Pervasive militarization and the concomitant lack of accountability for past abuses have ensured that human rights violations in the country’s north and east remain widespread.
It is to be noted what the Chief Minister of Northern Province Hon. C. Wigneswaran [Attorney at law and former Judge] said on the occasion of the Genocide Remembrance Day and remembering those dead during the war in Mullivakkal on May 18th 2018
Wigneswaran accused the Sri Lankan State of being communal.
“Those in the highest echelons of power have been heard to say that they will not allow even a single Sinhalese soldier to go to jail. Does that mean criminality depends on one’s race and community?” he asked.
“We have no paucity for Sinhala politicians who consider any offence committed against the Tamils by a Soldier is no offence at all,” he pointed out.
Wigneswaran recalled that Sri Lanka had consented to install a hybrid Inquiry Panel before the world body and pointed out that now it refuses to abide by its promise.
“This would point out to the world the manner in which our successive governments for 70 years have deceived and fooled our Tamil people,” he said.
The culture of impunity still continues under this so call “Good Governance” The DRACONIAN PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT IS STILL IN FORCE. The Government promised to repeal this Act to the United Nations. European Union long ago and was successful in obtaining its GSP + concessions from EU by making false promises and cheating and by persuading the EU Officials.
Sri Lanka has failed in its commitments to the UN and the International Community and has succeeded in hoodwinking in myriad ways so far and will continue to pursue these tactics in future also.
Sri Lanka having co-sponsored Resolution 30/1 in 2015 and 34/1 in 2017cannot go back on it now. Sri Lanka cannot dodge the implementation of the Resolutions fully.
It is shocking to note that the International Community and the United Nations giving time extensions to implement the UNHRC Resolution 30/1 ever after knowing the GOSL’s policy of promising everything and doing nothing,.
GOSL’s Lessons learnt and Reconciliation Commission:
Interim recommendations: GOSL failed to fulfill its own recommendations even after 8 Years?
Interim recommendations: GOSL failed to fulfill its own recommendations even after 8 Years?
In September 2010 the LLRC published its interim recommendations:
