SLArmy 58 Division indicate that over 30,000 civilians held hostage by LTTE terrorists at Puthumathalan and Amplalavanpokkani areas have been liberated. The mass rescue operation reached a significant phase when troops captured the 3 km long earth bund built by the LTTE, on the western border of...
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humanitarian and international human rights law, and to bring all perpetrators of these violations to justice, but this had not been reflected. In addition the draft resolution did not ensure the follow up of reporting to the Council through the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Therefore the ...
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Awesome relpy by Dr. Dayan Jaytilleka in response to UNHRC High Commissioner. He stressed that Sri Lanka, as a sovereign country will decide on the degree of access that it grants anyone from outside: Madam High Commissioner, Madam High Commissioner welcomed last weeks Human Rights Council Speci...
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Session? It doesnt require decoding Mr President, Excellencies. It is very clear from the proceedings that started yesterday. From high officials who should be above the fray, making statements which presume guilt on the part of Sri Lanka, and which could lend itself to misperceptions of bias of...
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THIS 30 YEAR CONFLICT. 2:45 Mr. President, over 250000 of our citizens who were held hostage by the LTTE in the north were rescued by our forces and are being looked after and cared for as we speak. There was a reference little while ago about lack of food; there was a reference little while ago...
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therefore regrettable that the principle of majority intergovernmental decisions making process does not appear to be fully appreciated by the EU. Are we then to pay lip service to these procedures that would be rendered useless and academic? To give into this unsavory practice would be only open...
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Paris, and possible complicity of all sorts of personalities in that disappearance. Let Great Britain and Ireland have an international inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Londonderry, where there was no fog of war unlike in the closing stages of the Sri Lankan conflict, but dead...
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allegations of human rights violations conducted by all sides, as they put it, to the Sri Lankan conflict. So heres the deal. Sri Lanka will be prepared, I think, to regard this a little more charitably if we start from the human rights situations that precede the Sri Lankan conflict. Let France...
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expanded version, which brought us from L.1 through Rev.1 to Rev.2. I draw your attention, Excellencies, in particular, to Op. 10 which enshrines and embeds the entirety of the joint statement between the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, and the government of Sri Lanka. It r...
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