United Nations,, 20 May, (Asiantribune.com): The UN Human Rights Council is to hold a special session on 25 May to address the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, following a request by several of its members.
"It is hoped that the holding of this special session will contribute towards the cause of peace," said the Council’s President, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi.
"The Human Rights Council cannot be silent when innocent civilians are caught up in armed conflicts. The international community must strive to deliver justice to victims of human rights violations wherever they occur and ensure that those found guilty of such crimes are held accountable for their actions," he added.
Next Monday’s meeting will be the 11th special session of the Geneva-based Council, which has also held special sessions related to the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Darfur, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the global food crisis and the global economic and financial crises.
- Asian Tribune -
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UNHRC has to do something to
UNHRC has to do something to justify its existence. When over 200,000 civilians were held in captivity by the LTTE, none of the western countries nor UN helped in any way to get any of them released. They stayed in their ivory towers calling LTTE to release the civilians.
When almost all were released by the Sri Lankan armed forces, these people want to hold a meeting. There may have been some collateral damage. This is to be expected.
This meeting is not only a waste of time, but it is ill-conceived anti-Sri Lankan properganda by the West.
They are only creating an East-West divide. It could end up as a David & Golliath fight.
West has already flexed its muscle by obtaining the 17 signatures necessary, possibly by offering some bribes to a few nations.
slhawk1980 It is good
slhawk1980
It is good that UN Human Rights Council is addressing the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka, so that attention is focused on the urgent needs of the hundreds of thousands of tamil civilians who were abducted by the LTTE from their homes to be their human sheild.
However one can but wonder WHY SIMILAR SESSIONS WERE NOT HELD WHEN THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS WERE DELIBERATELY MASSECERED BY THE TERRORISTS ON THEIR BEDS AND DURING BOMBINGS AT COLOMBO.
OR ... WHEN TENS OF THOUSANDS WERE KILLED IN ATTACKS ON VIETNAM, AFGANISTAN OR RECENTLY IN IRAQ - WHERE HUMAN CATASTROPIES OCCURED SOLELY DUE TO A SINGLE NATION'S GREED FOR IRAQ'S VAST OIL FIELDS.
Ii would be funny, if it is not pathetic that all these SOCALLED HUMAN RIGHT WATCH DOGS WERE NOT BARKING OR EVEN AWAKENED WHEN THE CULPRIT WAS IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD,..
...and not some THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WHO HAS MANAGED TO DESTROY THE MOST RUTHLESS AND INHUMAN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD, INSPITE OF ECONOMIC AND MILITARY SANCTIONS HEAPED UPON IT.
Over to you Madam Hilary Clinton.
P.S.
We have a proverb in our country..
When you are pointing your finger at somebody..
FORGET NOT THAT THE OTHER 4 FINGERS..
ARE POINTING RIGHT BACK AT YOU.
Why don't they take up the
Why don't they take up the situation in Pakistan? What about Afganistan and Iraq. They Palestinian situation. What have they done. They have been bullish only on poor small nations about human rights violations. What about Americans under Bush and Co, have they ever condemn this conduct. The all UN agencies are bluff, created to keep smaller nations under the thumb of the west.
Dear editor, Can U brief as
Dear editor,
Can U brief as to hoe can i paste/post pics to my comments ? Pls send email .
And thank you and the team again for being unbiased and for supporting a country's war against terrorism !!
Are they going to discuss
Are they going to discuss the human rights violations by the LTTE when they were holding Tamil civilians by force as a human shield? They can discuss now because the IDPs are under the government but no agency would have discussed or put pressure on the LTTE while they were ruling the roost over these hapless civilians.
There was a press report on the UN Secretary General's Chef de cabinet, Vijay Nambiar contacting the the arms procurer of the LTTE K. Pathmanathan (who is on the Interpol list of criminals to be apprehended). Can the UN also find out if this report is true and if so the nature of the relationship they have and the consequences such relations have on the UN's role in Sri Lanka.
Who cares!! How many human
Who cares!! How many human rights violators in the group itself?
This is an eye opener for us
This is an eye opener for us all. It is time we Asians have our own Human Rights Organisations.The west has lost all credibility and has no moral right to consider themselves the International Community.
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