The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday stressed the need for a “credible and independent investigation” into the allegations of human rights violations and killings during the last phase of the war in Sri Lanka against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
In a statement, the Polit Bureau said that even though the ethnic conflict ended there three years ago with the defeat of the LTTE, the question of bringing to book those accused of ‘war crimes' had not been addressed.
It pointed out that even though Colombo had constituted a Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) to go into the matter, its recommendations made five months ago had still not been implemented. The Indian government should take the stand at the U.N. Human Rights Council that the Sri Lankan government should implement the LLRC recommendations without further delay. These include a credible investigation into the allegations of extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances and a political settlement involving the devolution of powers to the provinces.
“Given the growing evidence of killings of civilians and serious human rights violations, it is necessary to have a credible and independent investigation into these charges. All those responsible should be held accountable and brought to book,” the statement said.
Keywords: Sri Lanka war crimes, human rights violation, civilian killiing, UNHRC report, Eelam War, LTTE, Prabakaran killing, ethnic conflict, Sri Lankan Tamils
My best wishes to communist party of India.You have seen the truth.God
will bless your party.Yes they should be hanged.What a bloody war was
it.The government killed thousands of innocent civilians purposely
showing that they are fighting against LTTE.LTTE group was fighting
for their rights.They were fighting for their lands.They had a good discipline.Unfortunately the governments fooled them all the time.They choose the wrong step to get the revenge by normal civilians which was
made bad for their reputation.Other wise they would have got more
support from the whole world.Today this government is almost acting as
them.I could describe as a terrorist government.It is the truth.This
president is one of the dangerous characters who will order to kill
his own civilian who ever talks against him.He use the Army to do this easily.Check our news in www.lankaenews.com.It has been blocked here
because people will get the real facts.
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished, forensically examines four specific cases and investigates who was responsible.
The cases are:
the deliberate heavy shelling of civilians and a hospital in the ‘No Fire Zone’;
the strategic denial of food and medicine to hundreds and thousands of trapped civilians
defying the legal obligation to allow humanitarian aid into a war zone;
the killing of civilians during the ‘rescue mission’ and the systematic execution of naked and bound LTTE prisoners
featuring new chilling video footage of a 12-year-old boy who had been brutally executed.
After all of the above, the IC is wasting its time talking to the alleged war criminals. It is shame for the Sinhalese to have this regime in power as well!
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