SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT SIRISENA ASKS THE UN TO APPROVE HIS “PLAYBOOK FOR IMPUNITY” – THE TGTE ASKS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CREATE AN INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT MECHANISM TO ASSIST IN INVESTIGATIONS IN SRI LANKA The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam...
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SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT SIRISENA ASKS THE UN TO APPROVE HIS “PLAYBOOK FOR IMPUNITY” – THE TGTE ASKS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CREATE AN INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT MECHANISM TO ASSIST IN INVESTIGATIONS IN SRI LANKA The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam Press Release, 25 September 2018 “The authorities have not yet demonstrated the capacity or willingness to address impunity for gross violations and abuses of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law.” The High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/37/23, para.29) Today, President Maithripala Sirisena, faced with his complete failure to honor any of the most important obligations under Resolution 30/1, has invited the UN to join him in turning a “blind‐eye” to the crimes committed against the Tamil people. In his address to the 73rd General Assembly, Sirisena asked the international community to look at Sri Lanka “from a fresh perspective.
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