Mano Ganesan meets UNSG’s representative Walter Kalin
Full Text of Media Release
Civil Monitoring Commission Convener and DPF Leader Mano Ganesan MP met UN Secretary General’s representative on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons Walter Kalin on Saturday 26th morning in Colombo. A communiqué issued by Ganesan’s office said that Mano Ganesan communicated the positions of CMC and emocratic opposition to Walter Kalin. Communiqué further says,
Resettlement process of the Internally Displace Person’s is on a slow motion due the inabilities of the government. The reasons put forward by the government in respect of not letting the people go home lack plenty of credibility. Members of media, human rights defender and diplomatic communities are not permitted to conduct independent visits to the IDP sites. Few are taken on guided tours by the government. Even the elected parliamentarians of the Parliament of Sri Lanka are prevented from visiting the internally displaced locations in Vavuniya region. All indications are there for the situation getting worse due to the incoming monsoon conditions. CMC considers that both the administration of the camps and re settlement of the displaced people need to be undertaken by the UN with the government’s participation.
From the office of Mano GANESAN
Leader of Democratic Peoples Front
Convener of Civil Monitoring Commission
President of Democratic Worker’s Congress
President of Parliamentarians for Human Rights
Member of Parliament for Colombo District
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Recently six IDPs were shot by the army when they protested about their treatment, and now the government has labelled them as those "with links with the LTTE" ! Any tamil hurt or killed are thus labelled. 10,000 IDPs are missing in the camps.The excuse of "mines" is trotted out to keep them in the camps - though all IDPs have been living for years in vicinity of "mine infested areas",before may 2009.
The truth is that the government does not wish them to go back to their homes lands & livelihoods, in order that these could be occupied by others. This is also why the 'high security zones' which are no longer necessary,have not been dismantled, while new ones are being established. All this amounts to "collective vengence" on these hapless citizenes by the totalitarian state.