Comments on: Eminent Persons Group Quits Monitoring Presidential Commission Inquiry

By: samuel

samuel — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:35:13 +0000

This report is an indictment on the GoSL.
Now all nations know the true colours of the Repressive State run by the Rajapakse Junta – which may be equalled only by Burma’s regime.
In addition there is consensus too that this government is also the Most Corrupt of all so far after 1948.

By: Thiaga

Thiaga — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:24:55 +0000

Why drag the bulk of Sinhalese people into this. They are equally concerned about HR violations in SL. LTTE is a co-violator in the name of liberation of Tamils. We have a common enemy that is MR govt. It has already taken its roots. We have to be united to stand against it.

By: Sam Thambipillai

Sam Thambipillai — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:04:09 +0000

It is said that pride comes before fall. We are about to face the “fall” of Sri Lanka.

When the IIGEP cannot do their work, and when their stay is meanigless with an arrogant criminal government, what should they do? They should not have just walked away leaving injustice to the affected, they should have reported the criminal government to the commonwealth of Nations publicly without any fear whatsoever.

In retrospect, one would observe that at inception when IIGEP started pointing out the faulty justice syatem that prevented justice to Tamils, by being deliberately inactive to complaints of murder and disappearances, the attorney general was panicky and “screeming”.

Later, the government ignored the IIGEP, and carried on regardless, with murder, disppearances and displacements.

There is no legal system for Tamils. There is law of the jungle to facilitate murder, torture and disappearances.

The UN should immediately send its Human Rights Monitoring Mission to Sri Lanka.

By: Gee

Gee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:56:15 +0000

So, the question is what were they doing all this time ?. Almost two years this not so eminent group legitimized what the Colombo regime has been doing thus facilitating the flow of foreign funds and war materials into the Island. In so doing they had been accessories to the kidnappings and murder of thousands of innocent Tamil civilians. They better be ashamed of themselves, while war mongering governments in India, Pakiland , China and the west were happily throwing good money after this bad regimes.

It is very sad indeed, these eminent persons tolerated all these crimes for such a long period of time giving wrong signals to their governments back in their respective capitals. So why now ?.

By: Nexus

Nexus — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:17:57 +0000

HRW reports are to be treated with a grain of salt,
In 1996 it issued more adverse reports against the state of Israel than Sudan, cleary this org has axe to gring against any state that seeks to vigourously counter the threat of terrorism.

The GOSL need to punch back and release the dossier it has on the underground tiger elements that are behind much of these abductions.

By: 2ndClassTamil

2ndClassTamil — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:29:22 +0000

All the dogs are barking at the moon. That cats don’t know what to make of it!

By: Thamil

Thamil — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:56:47 +0000

This is expected, we Tamils all familiar with all these commissions, pacts and talks nothing will materialize.

All these Sinhala leaderships trying to buy time and eliminate Tamils existence in Srilanka either by extra judicial means of killings, forced disappearances or expelling them from their traditional homeland to any other part of the world.

Please justify our genuine request for an independent Tamil homeland.

By: Jack Ranasinghe

Jack Ranasinghe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:48:18 +0000

The issue is not why they quit, but why they took so long to quit?

The Government has been nothing but consistent in its Human Rights record and the IIGEP has served its role as a fig leaf. The extension certificate for preferential status in EU markets is already in the bag and Rajapakse can continue without threat.

By: Ruwan Ranasinghe

Ruwan Ranasinghe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:08:10 +0000

“In the search for truth and justice in this case, it is imperative that the testimony of the security forces personnel and police witnesses heard by the Commission to date is fully and adequately exposed and tested. The general public, surviving victims, family representatives and others must have the opportunity to judge the credibility of some of the witnesses. It is also essential for them to be able to observe the working of the Commission and be encouraged to do so.”

Welcome to Sri Lanka. In the North and East, there is no such thing as an independant judiciary. The Military is the judge and jury. This is why, to my knowledge, the only case that has seen the light of day so far is the Krishanthy Kumaraswamy one. The only remedy for this sort of decay is international intervention. I cannot see internal reform being implemented anytime in the present or near future.

By: Nam

Nam — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:54:21 +0000

Finally someone has the Courage to do what is morally right in this abusive and repressive environment.

Pouring Hot water on this wound, HRW also came up with firing in its all cylinder towards MR’s government in the Island of Injustice (Anita Pradap was precisely right on this matter)

The Mills of Justice is slowly grinding and we the Tamils should be little more patience and we can change the world to open their eyes towards the oppressed people for their self determination.

The only way forward is “REFERENDUM in the NORTHEAST for NE people as to stay with South or part their own way.

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/srilanka0308/