Kachchathivue- Third Party 

Intervention Is Imperative!

| by Sripali Vaiamon

“…to put an end to the brutal, unprovoked attacks on and abduction of our fishermen by the marauding Sri Lanka Navy….” Judging by overheated marauding words of infuriated political personality of the ongoing dispute I personally feel, for the satisfaction of both parties, an intervention by a strong politician of the caliber of Hon.Narendra Modi should be acceptable to both parties but of course he should have enough time to study the whole implication although he is laden with inexhaustible amount of work in the new government. Nevertheless, he is a workaholic and an introvert as characterized by analysts. So he will find time as he evinces a genuine interest to bring about a reasonable settlement within the stipulated legal set up.

Kachchathivue- Third Party by nelvely

Muslims youths did exactly what Anura told them to do – BBS

 Friday, 13 June 2014 

JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake recently told Muslim youths to hit back if they were attacked, and that is exactly what Muslim youths had done in Aluthgama town today (12), CEO of Bodu Bala Sena Dilanthe Withanage told Lanka News Web.

He was responding to a question as to whether BBS was responsible in any way to the incident on Poson full moon poya day today, in which a group of Muslim youths had assaulted a Buddhist monk.

Mr. Withanage said Rawana Balaya and other organizations had visited the area to make inquiries with regard to the incident, but BBS had not done so, after the assault by a group of Muslim youths, angered by a vehicle carrying a Buddhist monk tooting its horn to ask for space to clear the way from them who had been blocking the way.

“We do not go to get involved in unnecessary trouble. Already, we have been branded a terrorist organization. If any communal clash occurs, the responsibility should be borne by those who had given advice and those who were behind those incidents. We have nothing to do with those incidents,” he said.

A Note On The Kobbekaduwe Commission Report

By Rajan Hoole -June 14, 2014

Rajan Hoole

Political Murders, the Commissions and the Unfinished Task – 2

An indication of the Commissioners’ reasoning is contained in the following on page 179 of the Report: “The Commission draws the irresistible inference after deliberation and consideration upon the evidence taken as a whole, that it is [the only one] consistent with the following:

Kobbekaduwe

- 2“Captain W.A.N.M. Weerasinghe was a member of the conspiracy with others in the Government and in the Army to assassinate General Kobbekaduwe and any others who may be present with him at that time…”

Among the reasons for holding that Weerasinghe was involved are:

1.)  Military Intelligence had told Kobbekaduwe of an assassination attempt on him in the North in a marginal area,

2.)  The fatal explosion was caused by a device attached to the vehicle,

3.)  Weerasinghe was an explosives expert on the scene recently transferred into the area,

4.)  Weerasinghe had been under an officer who had passed on government weapons to the LTTE upon President Premadasa’s bidding, which outraged Kobbekaduwe and

5.)  Weerasinghe’s testimony before the various inquiries into the incident had been contradictory and misleading.

Another ‘irresistible inference’ concerns the complicity of Colonel Stephen who also died in the blast which killed Kobbekaduwe. The reader would note that the argument is shaky in several places. On the cause of the explosion, Wyatt has differed from another British expert, Radmore. Technical arguments based on minutely refining hypotheses regarding evidence that is largely lost, cannot be conclusive. All the factors concerning Weerasinghe may have a relatively innocent explanation. If Weerasinghe’s association with a superior officer who handed over weapons to the LTTE is being brought in to throw suspicion on his character, then why not suspect also Generals Ranatunge and Wanasinghe through whom the instruction to hand over weapons was passed down? Kobbekaduwe was known to have been a favourite of Ranatunge. As concerning Stephen, if he were part of the plot, would it not have occurred to him that as the officer commanding the area that was crucial to a major military plan, Kobbekaduwe would have asked him to board the same ill-fated vehicle in order to confer with him?                                                                                 Read More 

The Homeless People

| by Victor Cherubim

( June 14, 2014, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Metal studs/spikes, an inch high, outside luxury offices in London, in the news recently, have hardly deterred people sleeping rough. The “homeless” also happen to be many young employed who cannot raise a deposit, to rent a flat, let alone buy one.

To say they are a statistic is a scandal. To perceive this situation as part of the life scene is a shame. Even the rich and famous can end up on hard times. Ed Mitchell, the famous broadcaster, in his book “From headlines to hard times” relates the story of his growing alcohol dependency and how he slept rough on a beach on Hove, Sussex seafront.

Modern living includes not only the poor, but others as well, who are without a place to sleep in cities. They are the rural poor who are drawn to cities, in search of jobs, who may end up on street pavements. Recent migrants from the new countries of European Union, who come to UK in search of a “new life,” also find the streets of London safe.

What does it take to be literally on the street?

It is hard to imagine how someone can go from having a home one day and be out on the street the next week. Many homeless start out with jobs and stable residences. But then, social and particularly money shortage, “economic necessities” cause a rapid and deteriorating change.

Two main drivers for not having or losing a home are poverty and lack of affordable housing. In the West, it is mainly the latter, but in South East Asia and particularly in Sri Lanka, it generally is the former. Life has left the real poor to cope with make shift shelters, under trees, next to railway lines, near market pavements or away from notice.

A Job

A job was the norm for living. A degree which was once a passport for a job, many say will no longer land a graduate a dream job. Only 1 in 3 graduates are expected to secure traditional full time employment after graduation. The new “normal” is to rediscover what truly makes one happy and rethink career goals. This means building a job strategy around volunteering, networking and part-time jobs and at the same time developing “in demand” skills, in what free time is available. Loss of a job is normal as jobs are far less secure than they were in the past, but to buy a home on today’s wages for many, let alone to save a deposit to rent a flat, is out of reach.

Sleeping rough

People who end up sleeping rough due to their inability to get work to support themselves or who cannot claim Social Security Benefit, lose self esteem, self confidence, loss of their daily routine, and loss of purposeful activity. The loss of family support, social network and sense of security is further worrying.

Helping vulnerable people has been the job of so called “Soup Kitchens.” There are many well known organisations and Homeless Shelters, Salvation Army, Missionaries of Charity Soup Kitchens, Passage Day Centre, St.Mungo’s and Crisis & London Mobile Christmas Service, to name a few, are there to help the helpless.

Affluence and abject poverty

The stark contrast between the above two scenarios is not hard to find in UK, in Sri Lanka or in any other nation. Affluence is a condition of the mind with ostentation and prestige being symbols adorning lifestyle. Abject poverty and destitution is also a mindset of hopelessness, unspoken grief, being lost in a world of plenty, and in search of an identity.

The common factor for both is blame. The affluent blame the poor for their predicament. while the poor are unable to cope with the pace of life and have “forgot” to take their lives forward. The poor, many say, live on the unrealistic expectation of a “fall back” on society.

Sri Lanka rural poverty

Whilst the sleeping bag has become associated with a “state of freedom from responsibility, in the West,” in Sri Lanka, however, rural poverty is still an issue. For the abject poor, job and food poverty have been forced on them not by choice, but by circumstance.

In Sri Lanka, the issue of poverty, specifically rural poverty is unspoken. “As 90% of the poor live in rural areas and over 80% of Sri Lankan population still live in rural areas,” there is naturally a higher level of poverty. Researchers have shown that significant advances in some areas of human welfare compared to other low income countries are noticeable. “A third of the population still remains below the official income poverty line.” This is rapidly changing with economic development in towns and cities, but social change has yet to hit the rural population.

Poverty alleviation has been helping to promote self reliance. New infrastructure development projects and electrification have opened up rural areas. There are more development projects in the pipeline. The question on many minds is whether the benefits of these interventions actually reach those to whom they are intended.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is a “man of the poor,” but the problem is in identifying and locating the real poor, and the needs of the real poor, as the people of Sri Lanka are too proud to be classed as homeless.

Drunken cops kill motor cyclist youth – police media spokesman exploits current lawlessness to suppress

(Lanka-e-News-13.June.11.30PM) A group of brutal officers of the bestial Rajapakse regime police , while in a drunken state had killed in cold blood , Subash Indika Jayasinghe a 23 years old youth in the prime of his life. This ruthless murder had been committed 11th night at Pasyale. Saveen Chaturange, the friend of the deceased who was an eye witness to this murder had been coached by these drunken murderous police officers not to reveal the truth . He was told by these drunk murderous cops that if anyone inquires about it , to tell a lie that, because both of them tried to escape they were shot at , and friend died.

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It is most reprehensible and disgraceful while there is an eye witness who saw this brutal murder , the police media spokesman Ajith Rohana who had earned a notoriety for possessing the rare capacity of lying through every orifice of his body , repeated exactly what the killer police officers coached the innocent friend of the deceased to say. This scoundrel of a media spokesman blatantly lied , because the motor cycle riders traveled without heeding the orders of the police and they were trying to harm the police officers , the latter shot at the motor cycle resulting in this tragedy.

The eye witness to this ghastly murder , the friend , 18 years old Saveen Chaturanga friend of Subash Indika killed by the police 11th night , addressing a media briefing along with the father of the deceased said , when the police ordered their vehicle to be stopped , they halted the motor cycle, yet the police shot at his friend Subash Indika. There were about five police officers present at that time , and all of them were drunk . The injured Subash who was on the motor bike was admitted to hospital ,the eye witness further revealed.

We were going around collecting funds. The police traffic officers stopped the motor cycle .When the motor cycle was halted , they came from behind and fired at us when the deceased got shot. I began screaming ‘ we are being shot at, but nobody came forward .’ 

Then when I hailed a vehicle to stop , about ten persons came forward. Then that group went away , and never ever even came close by. The cops were also there , they were fully drunk. They slapped me twice , and ordered me to desert my bleeding friend and flee.

These heavily inebriated cops coached me to tell a lie : ‘if your people ask , you tell them, both tried to flee and were shot .’ I told them I cannot tell a lie.

Russel recalls how Sanath, the thug, raised clubs to attack

Friday, 13 June 2014 

Former cricket captain, Matara district MP and posts deputy minister Sanath Jayasuriya, who had stormed the Ruhuna University along with a group of thugs to attack students who had opposed plans to hold Deyata Kirula exhibition in the campus premises, in a statement to ‘Ada’ newspaper has said that “I have never raised a club to attack in the whole of my life. I do not have a group of thugs. I do not engage in such politics.”

However, former opening Test batsman and commentator Russel Arnold has recalled, in a Twitter message, how Sanath had raised clubs to attack.

Russel says,

“Oi..@sanath07 mokada me? Mathaka nedda mata wicket eken enna daa?”

Responding, Sanath Jayasuriya has said,

“@RusselArnold69 mama polu ussala naa bang [@RusselArnold69.”

Commenting on this, a political analyst in Colombo said that although Sanath tries to claim himself to be a character without a blemish, he cannot escape from the dirty politics which he represents. He cannot escape that easily from the accusation that he had led thugs, and that he had been with them, to attack students of the Ruhuna University, and taking the Rajapaksa politics as a whole, Sanath just another thug, said the political analyst.

IPs complain to SC against IGP 


BY STANLEY SAMARASINGHE

Twenty one Inspectors of Police have complained to the Supreme Court that the Secretary to Ministry of Law and Order, Nanda Mallawarachchi and Inspector General of Police, N.K. Illangakoon, have intentionally violated the country's rule of law.
 
They made this complaint in a Fundamental Rights application filed in Supreme Court against the scheme through which Inspectors are promoted to Chief Inspectors.
 
The petitioners have cited the Secretary to Ministry of Law and Order, Inspector General of Police and 79 police officers, who have been promoted as Chief Inspectors.
 
According to the petitioners, they are inspectors of the regular service who have been promoted to the post of Inspectors.
 
The petitioners placed their grievance under Article 12(1) of the Constitution where the decision to promote 240 Inspectors of Police to post of Chief Inspectors of Police, based on an unjustifiable formula and failing to administer the impugned promotion scheme in a reasonable manner.

Due to arbitrary manner in which 79 respondents have been promoted to the Chief Inspectors of the Police, petitioners state that their seniority within police has been lost to the said 79 respondents.
The petitioners state that among the 240 officers who were promoted, 79 Inspectors of Police have not fulfilled the requirement of eight years service in the active service but they were absorbed as regular inspectors when they were serving as reserve inspectors.
 
The petitioner states that Secretary to the Ministry of Law and Order and the Inspector General of Police had violated the Establishments Code and the Constitution and regulations by the arbitrary decisions.
The petitioners requested the Court to declare that the respondents had not acted upon a valid promotion scheme and direct respondents to restore petitioners lost seniority within the service by quashing the promotions.

Angelina Jolie decries wartime rape

Actress Angelina Jolie, right, special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, attends a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague at the conclusion of the “End Sexual Violence in Conflict” summit. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)

BY ANNE GEARAN AND KARLA ADAM June 13

LONDON — The age-old link between warfare and rape can be broken, and perpetrators cannot assume that they will get away with it, actress Angelina Jolie and top diplomats said Friday as they endorsed international efforts to increase the investigation and prosecution of a crime that has historically gone unpunished.

Angelina Jolie Decries Wartime Rape by nelvely

Ten killed in clashes in Bangladesh

People set fire to bamboo and woods as they block a street after a clash at Mirpur area in Dhaka June 14, 2014

DHAKA Sat Jun 14, 2014

(Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed on Saturday in a clash at a refugee camp over firecrackers exploding during a religious event in Bangladesh, police and witnesses said.

The dispute arose after morning prayers at a camp in Mirpur, on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.

Using firecrackers during Shab-e-Barat, a Muslim festival, is prohibited in Bangladesh.

"Nine people, including two children, were burnt to death after the houses were set on fire during the clashes," local police official Imtiaz Ahmed told reporters.

An angry mob also clashed with police and pelted stones, forcing the security personnel to fire bullets and teargas to disperse them, witnesses said.

Another man, who was hit by bullets, died in a hospital and several others were injured, doctors said.

An investigation into the clashes has been launched.

Thousands of Indian origin Muslims have lived in refugee camps in Bangladesh since the 1971 independence war to break away from Pakistan.

They want to go over to Pakistan but Islamabad has refused to take them.

(Reporting by Ruma Paul; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)

Indonesia: Team Prabowo hits back at ‘cheap’ human rights allegations

Indonesian presidential candidates, Joko Widodo, third left, and Prabowo Subianto, second left, greet each other during a televised debate in Jakarta, Monday. Pic: AP.

By Patrick Tibke | @patwit9

Gerindra deputy goes on attack  following televised reference to Prabowo’s human rights record

As the remaining presidential candidates enter the crucial final stages of the campaign season in Indonesia, an increasingly antagonistic and caustic brand of politicking is beginning to characterise relations between the two camps. With so-called “black campaigning” and increasingly personal putdowns being launched one way and the other, tensions are evidently running high as the presidential hopefuls go into the home straight.

Indonesia Team Prabowo Hits Back at ‘Cheap’ Human Rights Allegations by nelvely

Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants

Tehran hints at cooperation with US to aid Nouri al-Maliki as jihadist group threatens to take Baghdad

Iraqi security forces and volunteers on the outskirts of Diyala province. Photograph: Reuters

Martin Chulov in Baghdad, and agencies

Saturday 14 June 2014 

Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the Guardian.

The confirmation comes as the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the mortal threat fast spreading through the country, while the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called on citizens to take up arms in their country's defence.

Addressing the country on Saturday, Maliki said rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) had given "an incentive to the army and to Iraqis to act bravely". His call to arms came after reports surfaced that hundreds of young men were flocking to volunteer centres across Baghdad to join the fight against Isis.

In Iran, Rouhani raised the prospect of Teheran cooperating with its old enemy Washington to defeat the Sunni insurgent group – which is attempting to ignite a sectarian war beyond Iraq's borders.

The Iraqi official said 1,500 basiji forces had crossed the border into the town of Khanaqin, in Diyala province, in central Iraq on Friday, while another 500 had entered the Badra Jassan area in Wasat province overnight. The Guardian confirmed on Friday that Major General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, had arrived in Baghdad to oversee the defence of the capital.

There is growing evidence in Baghdad of Shia militias continuing to reorganise, with some heading to the central city of Samarra, 70 miles (110km) north of the capital, to defend two Shia shrines from Sunni jihadist groups surrounding them.

The volunteers signing up were responding to a call by Iraq's most revered Shia cleric, the Iranian-born grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to defend their country after Isis seized Mosul and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit in a lightning advance this week. Samarra is now the next town in the Islamists' path to Baghdad.

"Citizens who can carry weapons and fight the terrorists in defence of their country, its people and its holy sites should volunteer and join the security forces," Sheik Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie, Sistani's representative, said on Friday in a sermon at the holy Shia city of Kerbala.

He warned that Iraq faced great danger and that fighting the militants "is everybody's responsibility, and is not limited to one specific sect or group", Associated Press reported. Karbalaie's comments have consistently been thought to reflect Sistani's views.

Meanwhile, Iraqi troops had been ordered out of the northern city of Kirkuk by Kurdish fighters who have taken full control of the regional oil hub and surrounding areas, according to a mid-ranking army officer.

His account was corroborated by an Arab tribal sheik and a photographer who witnessed the looting of army bases after troops left and who related similar accounts of the takeover from relatives in the army, the Associated Press reported.

"They said they would defend Kirkuk from the Islamic State [Isis]," said the Arab officer, who oversaw a warehouse in the city's central military base.

He insisted the Iraqi troops had not planned to retreat before the Islamic State. "We were ready to battle to death. We were completely ready," he said at a roadside rest house just inside the semi-autonomous Kurdish region.

A spokesman for Kurdish forces, known as the peshmerga, said they had only moved in after Iraqi troops retreated, assuming control of the "majority of the Kurdistan region" outside the semi-autonomous Kurdish regional government.

"Peshmerga forces have helped Iraqi soldiers and military leaders when they abandoned their positions," including by helping three generals to fly back to Baghdad from the Kurdish regional capital of Erbil, said Lieutenant General Jabbar Yawar in a statement on the regional government's website.

A supporter of Maliki in the Iraqi parliament condemned the peshmerga's move, calling it a plot carried out in co-ordination with the regional government that would lead to problems.

"The Kurds have taken advantage of the current situation. They seized Kirkuk and they have other plans to swallow other areas," Mohammed Sadoun said.

A colonel from the military command responsible for Samarra said Iraqi security forces were preparing a counter-offensive against Isis on Saturday. The colonel, whom Maliki announced had been granted "unlimited powers" by the Iraqi cabinet, said reinforcements from the federal police and army arrived on Friday, according to Agence France-Presse.

The officer said the reinforcements were for a drive against areas north of the city, including Dur and Tikrit, and forces were awaiting orders to begin.

Sunni residents of west Baghdad said on Saturday Shia militias had taunted them with anti-Sunni chants. Baghdad has remained in virtual lockdown for the past three days as Isis jihadists threatened to storm the capital. However, Saturday morning saw relative normality return to deserted streets, with many residents returning to shops to stockpile supplies.

Residents offered little reaction to Barack Obama's statement late on Friday in which he appeared to condition renewed US military support on Iraqi leaders first making efforts to pull the country back from the brink. The US and Iran, foes throughout the US occupation of Iraq, share a common interest in defeating Isis, and Iran has so far expressed no opposition to US threats to send military support to Maliki.

Rouhani, asked at a televised press conference on Saturday whether Tehran could work with the US to tackle Isis, said: "We can think about it if we see America starts confronting the terrorist groups in Iraq or elsewhere. We all should practically and verbally confront terrorist groups."

Reuters reported US officials as saying there were no contacts taking place with Iran over the crisis in Iraq.

Meanwhile, the British foreign secretary, William Hague, had held talks with his Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu, "urgently to co-ordinate approaches to the instability in Iraq and links to Syria conflict", he said on Twitter. Britain is to give £3m ($5.1m) of aid to Iraq as the first step in dealing with the humanitarian consequences of the insurgency.

The international development secretary, Justine Greening, said the initial tranche of emergency funding would allow agencies to supply water, sanitation, medicine, hygiene kits and basic household items.

Ukraine separatists shoot down military plane, 49 dead

1 OF 2. An armed pro-Russian separatist stands guard at the site of the crash of the Il-76 Ukrainian army transport plane in Luhansk June 14, 2014

BY PAVEL POLITYUK AND ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC

Sat Jun 14, 2014 
2 OF 2. Pro-Russian separatists gather ammunition at the site of the crash of the Il-76 Ukrainian army transport plane in Luhansk, June 14, 2014. 

(Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists shot down an army transport plane in east Ukraine on Saturday, killing 49 servicemen and dealing a blow to a military campaign to defeat the rebels and hold the country together.

Ukraine Separatists Shoot Down Military Plane, 49 Dead by nelvely

3 Years Later..This Video Is Disturbingly Haunting. We All Need To Watch This.

The San Francisco Globe

JUNE 13, 2014
At the SF Globe, we love powerful videos. This one is no exception. This video by VICE talks about the consequences suffered in Japan from the earthquake/tsunami of 2011 and its effects on the broader world. It shows you what is really happening there, and it just may surprise you.

The anatomy of an investigation

Friday 13th June 2014

• With less than a month before the UN investigation is officially launched, the Government is still grappling with how to respond to one of its most existential crises

After months of stony silence on the subject, President Mahinda Rajapaksa finally addressed the question of a controversial UN investigation his Government will be facing during a function in Medirigiriya, Polonnaruwa on Tuesday.
And he passed the buck.

The Anatomy of an Investigation by nelvely

சொந்த இடங்களில் மக்களை உடன் மீளக் குடியமர்த்துங்கள்;இலங்கை அரசிடம் ஐ.நா. அறிக்கையாளர் அறிவுறுத்து;ராணுவ வகிபாகத்தையும் மீளாய்வு செய்யுமாறு பரிந்துரை 

13 ஜுன் 2014, வெள்ளி

இலங்கையில் போர் முடிவுக்குக் கொண்டுவரப்பட்டுள்ள நிலையில், தேசிய பாதுகாப்பில் இராணுவத்தின் வகிபாகம் குறித்து மீளாய்வு செய்யப்பட வேண்டும் என்று கூறுகின்ற ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபையின் விசேட அறிக்கையாளர் பெயானி, இதுவரை தமது சொந்தக் காணிகளில் குடியமர்த்தப்படாத மக்கள், அவர்களின் சொந்தக் காணிகளில் குடியமர்த்தப்படுவதுடன் அவர்களுக்கு நட்டஈடும் வழங்கப்பட வேண்டும் என்றும் பரிந்துரைத்துள்ளார்.

இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்கள் தொடர்பான ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபையின் விசேட அறிக்கையாளர் சலோகா பெயானி, தற்போது நடைபெற்றுவரும் ஐ.நா. மனித உரிமைகள் சபையின் 26வது  அமர்வில் சமர்ப்பித்துள்ள உள்ளக இடம்பெயர் மக்கள் குறித்த விசேட அறிக்கையிலேயே மேற்கண்டவாறு சுட்டிக் காட்டியுள்ளார்.

கடந்த டிசெம்பர் மாதம் இலங்கை வந்திருந்த பெயானி, வடக்குப் பகுதியில் மக்கள் மீள்குடியமர்த்தப்பட்ட பகுதிகளையும், மீள் குடியமர்த்தப்பட்டுள்ள மக்களின் நிகழ்கால நிலைமைகளையும் பார்வையிட்டுச் சென்றிருந்தார். அத்துடன் அவர்களுடன் உரையாடல்களை நடத்தியிருந்த பெயானி, 

மீள்குடியமர்த்தப்பட்டுள்ள மக்கள் தொடர்பாக அதிகாரிகள் மற்றும் உயர்மட்டத் தலைவர்களுடனும் கலந்துரையாடியிருந்தார்.

தான் நேரடியாகக் கண்டவற்றையும், இங்கு திரட்டிய தகவல்களையும் கொண்டு தாம் தயாரித்துள்ள அறிக்கையைத் தற்போது ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் மனித உரிமைகள் சபையில் சமர்ப்பித்துள்ளார் பெயானி. அந்த அறிக்கையில், இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்களை குடியமர்த்துதல், காணி விவகாரங்கள் போன்ற விடயங்கள் தொடர்பில் கற்றறிந்த பாடங்கள் மற்றும் நல்லிணக்கம் தொடர்பான ஆணைக்குழுவின் பரிந்துரைகளை நடைமுறைப்படுத்த வேண்டும். இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்களின் மனித உரிமைகளை பாதுகாப்பது தொடர்பாக தேசிய செயற்றிட்டத்தை நடைமுறைப்படுத்தவேண்டும் என்று பரித்துரைத்துள்ளார் பெயானி.

அதுமட்டுமல்லாது, போர் முடிவடைந்துள்ள நிலைமையில் தேசிய பாதுகாப்பில் இராணுவத்தின் வகிபாகம் தொடர்பில் மீள்மதிப்பீடு செய்யப்படவேண்டும். குறிப்பாக சர்வதேச மனிதாபிமான சட்டங்களுக்கு அமைவாக அதனைச் செய்யலாம். வடக்கில் மீளக்குடியமர்த்தப்பட்டுள்ள சில பகுதிகளிலிருந்து இராணுவத்தை மீளப்பெறுவதற்கான திட்டத்தின் வெளிப்படையான தகவல்களை இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்களுக்கு வழங்க வேண்டும். அவர்கள் இடப்பெயர்வினால் ஏற்பட்ட பாதிப்புகளுக்கு நட்டஈடும் வழங்கப்பட வேண்டும்.

இடம் பெயர்ந்த மக்கள் மீள்குடியேற்ற செயற்பாடுகளின்போது அவர்கள் தாக்கப்படுதல் சித்திரவதைக்கு உட்படுதல் அச்சுறுத்தப்படல் என்பன இடம்பெறுவதை தவிர்க்க வேண்டும். அவர்களின் சுதந்திரமான நடமாட்டம் உறுதிபடுத்தப்படவேண்டும். காணாமற் போனோர் தொடர்பாக விசாரணை செய்வதற்கு நியமிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள ஆணைக் குழுவானது சர்வதேச அங்கீகரிக்கப்பட்ட விதிமுறைகளை பின்பற்றுவதை உறுதிபடுத்த வேண்டும். காணாமற் போனோரின் உறவினர்களுடன்

இணைந்து செயற்பட்டு பரிந்துரைகளை வெளிப்படுத்தவேண்டும்.இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்களுக்கு எதிராக இடம்பெற்ற வன்முறைகள் தொடர்பில் விசாரணைகள் நடத்தப்படுவதை உறுதிபடுத்த வேண்டும். 

சிவிலியன்களுக்கு எதிராக குற்றங்களில் ஈடுபட்ட பாதுகாப்பு அதிகாரிகள் தண்டிக்கப்படாமல் இருக்கின்றமை குறித்து ஆராயப்படவேண்டும் என்றும் அவர் பரித்துரைகளைச் செய்துள்ளார்.

Establish A TRC Simultaneously Along With The UN Investigation

By National Peace Council -June 13, 2014 

Create Counterpart Mechanism To Strengthen Prospect Of Reconciliation

The international community  has resolved to inquire into the violations of the Rule of Law  with regard to the last phase of Sri Lanka’s civil war and thereafter.   The UN Human Rights Council has passed three resolutions over the opposition of the Sri Lankan government focusing on the issue of accountability for human rights, which is an obligation that is binding on all States. This has been decried by the Sri Lankan government as motivated by ill will and prejudice and as inimical to national sovereignty.  Sri Lanka however is not the only country subject to investigation for their record of human rights.  Other countries that are currently under scrutiny are Turkey, Myanmar, Nigeria, Bahrain and South Sudan.

The third and most recent resolution that was passed in March 2014 called on the UN Human Rights Commissioner to establish an international investigatory mechanism.  She has now requested the Sri Lankan government for its cooperation in taking this investigation forward.  It is unlikely that Sri Lanka can successfully invoke ‘national sovereignty’ as a valid reason to reject the UN Resolution.  All States who are members of the UN are required to follow the Rule of Law and uphold human rights.   It is obligatory on the UN and its agencies to investigate allegations of violations of  human  rights and war crimes for otherwise the UN Charter will be a mere piece of paper to be left to individual States to follow or not.

The President has referred the matter to Parliament where a broad-based discussion on the issue can take place.  The government’s concern is that an international investigation will be motivated by prejudice and ill will towards the country and its government. The only way to prevent a one-sided investigation is not to permit an ex parte inquiry where the Government deprives itself of the right to present its own defense and the right to cross-examine witnesses and scrutinize documents which are to be used as evidence.  In any case the allegations in the last resort are against individuals who will be held accountable.  The decision to defend themselves or not can be left to the individual judgment of those against whom there are allegations.

Many in Sri Lanka hold the position that it is better not to go into matters of the past and accountability in the interests of Reconciliation.   The National Peace Council notes that the present stage is an investigation into the truth or falsehood of the allegations and not an exercise in accountability which would only come at a later stage.   In dealing with any offences are disclosed during the investigation, we believe that the best course of action is not to impose punishments but to grant pardon or amnesty to those who confess. Such action will have to follow upon a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as was held in South Africa.  We urge that a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission be established simultaneously along with the UN Investigation so that their findings reinforce the prospect of reconciliation.