The UNHRC Resolution Welcomed by Pro-LTTE NGOs
After a flurry of diplomatic activity in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka has finally been tabled.
On September 24, the U.S.-led UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution on Sri Lanka was tabled. This would be the fourth HRC resolution passed on the island nation since 2012.
The Sri Lankan government has praised the resolution and it appears that the original idea of passing it by consensus will go ahead as planned.
The resolution calls for wide-ranging reforms and a domestic accountability mechanism with international involvement. Some commentators have stated that what the resolution demands constitutes a hybrid court or hybrid mechanism. Regardless of one’s interpretation, it remains unclear how much international involvement will actually take place and falls short of some people’s demands especially from pro-LTTE terrorist Tamils for a purely international mechanism – a wish that remains politically infeasible at this time.
Sri Lanka would need to provide an oral update during the HRC’s thirty-second session and a “comprehensive report” during the HRC’s thirty-fourth session (in March 2017).
Though at times the language in the resolution is vague, the document contains a multitude of useful recommendations related to governance, human rights, accountability and reconciliation. It’s somewhat surprising, however, that the resolution does not address the country’s sustained militarization in a more clear and comprehensive way.
Some foreign funded pro-LTTE NGOs like Rights Now Collective for Democracy, National Peace Council, Centre of Alternative Policy etc. Like to see that foreign judges and lawyers prosecuting our war war heroes within Seri Lanka itself and meddling with our judicial mechanism.
In spite of Colombo’s backing of the resolution, it received significant criticism within Sri Lanka. Especially the majority Sinhalese, have already voiced complaints that what it calls for constitutes excessive international intervention and violates the country’s sovereignty. Meanwhile pro-LTTE Tamils are arguing that the resolution need to be fully international involvement without local hands. Tamil National Alliance (TNA), representatives of LTTE Tamil terrorists was so quick to endorse the resolution to prosecute the our war heroes. Additionally, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), mouth piece of Tamil separatism and terrorism has also welcomed the resolution. They both TNA and GTF are too have to prosecute for their involvement with LTTE Tamil terrorists in various war crimes committed in Sri Lanka and abroad.
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