India refuses Visa to UN team probing Lanka war crimes

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July 21, Colombo: India has refused to grant visas to the United Nations team appointed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay to probe the alleged human rights violations during the last seven years of three-decades long conflict in Sri Lanka

The investigation team appointed by Pillay to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lanka's security forces and the Tamil terrorists comprises 13 members and three experts.
While conducting investigations from Western countries, the team has sought to conduct the investigations in a country close to Sri Lanka since Sri Lanka has refused to cooperate with the investigation.

"India is an important country in this regard, but India has rejected entry. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives are in a similar stance, they are not willing to provide support for a suggestion brought on an individual country. They will want to conduct investigations in a country that is close to Sri Lanka, since they cannot enter Sri Lanka," Dr. Mahanamahewa has said.

The human rights official has noted that even Afghanistan has shown their objection towards the probe. "The SAARC countries have united for the first time in this manner," Dr. Mahanamahewa added.
"The UNHRC Committee will have to conduct the investigation from outside South Asia. They will have to contact witnesses in Sri Lanka through Skype and teleconferencing," he has said.

He said refusal of visas is a very significant gesture from the part of the Indian leadership

Sri Lanka : India refuses visa to UN team probing Sri Lanka

 

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"India is an important country in this regard, but India has rejected entry. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives are in a similar stance, they are not willing to provide support for a suggestion brought on an individual country. They will want to conduct investigations in a country that is close to Sri Lanka, since they cannot enter Sri Lanka," Dr. Mahanamahewa has said.

The human rights official has noted that even Afghanistan has shown their objection towards the probe. "The SAARC countries have united for the first time in this manner," Dr. Mahanamahewa added.


Sri Lanka : India refuses visa to UN team probing Sri Lanka

Liked this.

Gratifying to see S Asians close ranks to help one another.

 

[manlion]

Liked this.

Gratifying to see S Asians close ranks to help one another.

gratifying to see Tamil genocide by India and Lanka is contributing to peace and closing ranks with SAARC countries, particularly India and Pakistan

 

[he-man]

Thank god,we are showing some spine here

 

[manlion]

soon Tamilnadu is going to pass a resolution calling for economic sanction against India

Assembly passes special resolution seeking economic sanctions on Sri Lanka - The Hindu

 

[third eye]

gratifying to see Tamil genocide by India and Lanka is contributing to peace and closing ranks with SAARC countries, particularly India and Pakistan

soon Tamilnadu is going to pass a resolution calling for economic sanction against India

Assembly passes special resolution seeking economic sanctions on Sri Lanka - The Hindu

 

[manlion]

you referring to Nazi Modified's side kick - Ved VaiDick ?

Ved Vaidick -"no harm if Kashmir is made an independent nation "

 

[Mr.S.Singh]

SAARC unity on one hand, UN personals should have been given visa's

 

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Asma Jahangir to assist UN probe in Sri Lanka - The Hindu: Mobile Edition

Former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, former Governor-General and High Court judge of New Zealand Silvia Cartwright and former president of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Bar Association Asma Jahangir will advise and support the team set up to conduct a comprehensive investigation of alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka that was mandated by the Human Rights Council in March.

Ms. Jahangir is a previous holder of several Human Rights Council mandates and member of a recent fact-finding body into Israeli settlements. Her experience as a religious freedom activist is also likely to be considered relevant to Sri Lanka, as the Human Rights Council in March expressed its alarm at the significant surge in attacks against members of religious minority groups in Sri Lanka, including Hindus, Muslims and Christians. About a week ago, the coastal town of Aluthgama, south of Colombo, witnessed violent clashes in which four persons died and nearly 80, mostly Muslims, were injured following a rally of Bodu Bala Sena, a hardline Sinhala Buddhist organization.

 

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Jayalalithaa asks Modi to ensure visas for UN probe team to Lanka - The Times of India

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday expressed surprise over media reports that suggested that India denied visas to the United Nations Investigation Committee looking into human rights violations in Sri Lanka and requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene.

United Nations Human Rights Council met in Geneva in March and mandated an international investigation into the human rights violations in the island nation during the final stages of civil war.

DMK chief M Karuananidhi reacted as well, expressing anguish over the reported denial of visas to the UN probe team. "Tamils worldwide expect the Indian government to permit the team to begin investigations from Chennai," he said demanding that the Centre spell out its stand.

In a letter to Modi, Jayalalithaa said, "If the media reports are true and India has actually refused visas to the UN committee probing the human rights violations in Sri Lanka, this would be a bitter disappointment to the people of Tamil Nadu who are determined to ensure that the Sri Lankan regime is held to account for its heinous acts against Tamils."

Given that India was geographically Sri Lanka's closest neighbor and a number of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees were still residing in the state, India was definitely a place that any team probing human rights violations in Sri Lanka should visit to conduct its inquiries, Jayalalithaa said. "This would go a long way in assuaging the strong sentiments prevailing among all sections of society and the polity in Tamil Nadu."

The chief minister recalled four resolutions passed in the Tamil Nadu assembly in the past condemning the continuing discrimination against the Tamil minorities in Sri Lanka and violation of human rights

 

[pursuit of happiness]

soon Tamilnadu is going to pass a resolution calling for economic sanction against India

Assembly passes special resolution seeking economic sanctions on Sri Lanka - The Hindu

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