Reprieve for Sri Lanka as UN rights council defers report on violations till Sept 15

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 28 Februari 2015 | 21.50

ZURICH: Sri Lankan President Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisawa got the good news that his country has been given a six-month reprieve by the UN Human Rights Council during his visit to India this month. The UN Human Rights long-awaited report on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka during the LTTE conflict during the former Rajapaksa government would be published in September instead of March 2015 to give the new government time.

This will be relief also for India, which had been voting against the previous Sri Lanka government, and supporting the US in its resolutions in the Human Rights Council, but now wants better relations with Sri Lanka under a new regime.

The reprieve followed request by the Maithripala government to the US to repair relations after his victory in January elections. Sri Lanka's other allies, China and Pakistan, are also members of the rights council.

The US had sponsored resolutions against Sri Lanka in the Human Rights Council in 2012, 2013, 2014, during the Sri Lanka war under the Rajapaksa government. India had then worked hard behind scenes to temper these. Under pressure from the DMK, the UPA government voted against Sri Lanka and for the US resolution in 2012 and 2013, even though the DMK had just withdrawn support.

In March 2014 the Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted a resolution entitled 'Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka', and requested the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to undertake a comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes by both parties in Sri Lanka during the period covered by Sri Lanka's "Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission which examined the last years of the armed conflict.

The resolution requested the Office to present a comprehensive report at its 28th session starting March 2, 2015.

According to the Human Rights Office the Human Rights, high commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein pushed for the deferral, supported by the three experts to the report, Marrti Athtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Prize winner, Asma Jehangir, former president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association, and Silvia Cartwright, former governor-general of New Zealand in order to allow space for the new government to show its willingness to cooperate on human rights issues.

Zeid explained his decision as being based on "given the changing context in Sri Lanka and the possibility that important information may emerge which will strengthen the report. In addition, I have received clear commitments from the new government of Sri Lanka indicating it is prepared to cooperate with my Office on a whole range of important human rights issues - which the previous government had previously refused to do - and I need to engage with them to ensure those commitments translate into reality."

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