UNHRC report on SL should contain names

In omitting names, the report spared from blame former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose authorities has been extensively blamed for finishing up mass atrocities towards primarily Tamil civilians because it crushed the revolt in 2009.

“The mission found the overall financial system stable and current monetary stance appropriate - but recommended vigilance given rising core inflation, the resurgence of private credit, and signs of receding slack in the economy”, the IMF said. Encourages the Government of Sri Lanka to introduce effective security sector reforms as part of its transitional justice process that include ensuring that no scope exists for retention in or recruitment into the security forces of anyone credibly implicated in serious crimes involving human rights violations or abuses or violations of global humanitarian law including members of the security and intelligence units; and increasing training and incentives focused on the promotion and protection of human rights of all Sri Lankans. Yet thousands are still living in refugee camps six years after the war ended in May 2009, and bombed-out houses and bullet hole-riddled buildings still scar the streets. “People in Jaffna are not aware of what is going on in Geneva, but what they are hoping for is justice”, said local Tamil politician Suresh Premachandran. Less than a month after she visited Sri Lanka ahead of a crucial report on alleged war crimes during the country’s decades-long civil war with the LTTE, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal told PTI: “We have seen (in the new government), what we would say a very strong intent”. At the height of Rajapakse’s rule, the European Union and the USA withdrew trade concessions and world leaders including Manmohan Singh, then Indian prime minister, boycotted a Commonwealth summit he hosted in 2013. The Tamil Tigers suffered a bitter defeat in a no-holds barred military campaign that also killed thousands of troops. An increase in consumer spending created by sharp rise in public wages and salaries contributed to a major increase in imports of consumption and other goods which had more than offset savings from lower oil prices, the fund added. Worldwide Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO, called it a “welcome departure from the aggressive nationalist and authoritarian policies of the former government”. Speaking on the release of the report by the office of the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government was attempting to keep the Sri Lankan issue out of the agenda of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The UNHRC only said to investigate and we have protected the Forces. “By sounding conciliatory, President Sirisena is getting away lightly”