Sri Lankan Parliament and the UNHRC Resolution: Will Justice Prevail Over Politics?
Picture courtesy Foreign Policy – South Asia.
- - on 10/20/2015
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense comes than that the truth be concealed.” ― Thomas Hardy
On October 20, 2015, the Sri Lankan Parliament will debate the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) resolution on alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity and the systemic violation of human rights in Sri Lanka. This debate will make history if, and only if, it ends the legacy of political parties coopting debates concerned with ethnicity-related human rights issues to consolidate their political power. This legacy gives life to the same forces that continue to obstruct viable political solution to the ethnic issue.
