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Sri Lanka
US to support UN rights resolution on Sri Lanka
2012-02-14
This is pointless and unnecessary, creating the idea that the U.S. is nothing but an international busybody.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The United States will support a UN human rights council resolution asking Sri Lanka to implement recommendations of a UN report on the island nation's civil war, an American diplomat said Monday. The resolution would let Sri Lanka explain how it intends to advance ethnic reconciliation and accountability, said Maria Otero, under secretary of state for civilian security, democracy, and human rights, on a visit to the country.

A report written for the United Nations in 2010 found allegations of human rights violations were credible on both sides as the country's long civil war was ending in 2009. The UN and Washington have pushed for a full investigation of the alleged abuses, while Sri Lanka has defended its own investigation.

The government-appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission cleared Sri Lanka's military of allegations it deliberately targeted civilians and deprived them of food and medicine as a tactic of war. It said some violations by individual soldiers need further investigation. It said however the Tamil Tiger rebels routinely violated international humanitarian law.

Otero commended the commission report but said "it has shortcomings on accountability."

"I urged the Sri Lankan government to share the details of their plans and begin fulfilling the recommendations called in the report and to credibly address outstanding issues of accountability," she said.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured American diplomats the commission report would be implemented "in a comprehensive manner," Otero said.

If Sri Lanka's own efforts have shortcomings, pressure will grow for an international investigation, said Robert O. Blake, the US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  ION, as per BHARAT RAKSHAK POSTERS/BLOGGERS, it appears that India was ready to mil intervene in the Maldives Coup agz Prez Nasheed, but didn't because of Nasheed's alleged [puppet] ties or links to CHINA, hence India decided to play safe + waited for him to be ousted from power.

* OTOH DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US FEAR STOPPED INDIA MILITARY ACTION IN MALDIVES.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > INDIA KEEPS MALDIVES BASE UNDER WRAP, i.e. an active but preferably quiet presence.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-02-14 23:20  

#1  Ahh, they'll just do what everybody else does. Ignore them.
Posted by: tu3031   2012-02-14 19:35  

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