David Cameron hailed a “victory for the people of Sri Lanka” on Thursday when the United Nations launched an inquiry into atrocities carried out during the country’s civil war.
The UN Human Rights Council passed a British-sponsored resolution providing for an international investigation by 23 votes to 12.
Navi Pillay, the UN high comissioner for human rights, will now be able to start an inquiry into the deaths of tens of thousands of people during the final months of the civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009, when refugees from the Tamil minority were trapped and bombarded alongside rebels on a narrow stretch of beach on the north-eastern coast.
The decision came four months after the Prime Minister controversially agreed to attend a Commonwealth Summit in the country in November. At the time, he promised to urge an international inquiry into atrocities and disappearances if President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s own government failed to act.
Sri Lanka had vociferously opposed the measure, with the backing of China and Russia. The country said the resolution would violate its sovereignty and undermine its own efforts to heal the wounds caused by war. Full story...
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The UN Human Rights Council passed a British-sponsored resolution providing for an international investigation by 23 votes to 12.
Navi Pillay, the UN high comissioner for human rights, will now be able to start an inquiry into the deaths of tens of thousands of people during the final months of the civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009, when refugees from the Tamil minority were trapped and bombarded alongside rebels on a narrow stretch of beach on the north-eastern coast.
The decision came four months after the Prime Minister controversially agreed to attend a Commonwealth Summit in the country in November. At the time, he promised to urge an international inquiry into atrocities and disappearances if President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s own government failed to act.
Sri Lanka had vociferously opposed the measure, with the backing of China and Russia. The country said the resolution would violate its sovereignty and undermine its own efforts to heal the wounds caused by war. Full story...
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