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What is LLRC?
The Lesson's Learnt and Reconciliation commission (LLRC) was created under the jurisdiction of the H.E. the President Mahinda Rajapakasa, on May 2010, under the statutory powers vested with him. There are several reasons and motives which could be attributed for the creation of LLRC. Along with the announcement of the UN Panel of experts by United Nations Secretary General (UNSG), Ban Ki- Moon, and pressure imposed by the International Community and other Human Rights Agencies upon the GoSL, the creation of LLRC was initiated as a ruse and means to temporarily mitigate the unprecedented pressure coming on her way. The LLRC mandate was empowered to inquire matters that have taken place during the period between 21/02/2002 and 19/05/2009. This period covers full operation of the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) and the period of "humanitarian operations" conducted by the government forces. |
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| Darusman,LLRC and Petrie:Three Reports on the End of War in Sri Lanka |
| 2012-12-12 |
A conundrum is a confusing problem or a question that is very difficult to solve. Sri Lanka, in the view of some analysts, faces a conundrum in relation to three reports concerning the situation of the end of the civil war in May 2009.
The first such document is entitled the Report of the Secretary General Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka. This was chaired by Marzuki Darusman, an Indonesian, and is commonly referred to as the Darusman Report. The Darusman Report was presented to th
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| Top UN team here to look at LLRC report’s implementation |
| 2012-12-08 |
Amidst political turmoil in Colombo in the wake of the government’s move to impeach Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake, a high level UN delegation is here to examine the implementation of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recommendations as well as other post-war developments.
The Japanese-led delegation included Permanent Representatives from Nigeria, Romania Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York. The delegation was accompanied by senior Italian, Brazilian an
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| Govt. implementing LLRC recommendations says Hakeem |
| 2012-12-09 |
The government has the responsibility of implementing Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recommendations, Minister of Justice and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader Rauf Hakeem said.
He pointed out that the Presidential Task Force is taking steps to implement LLRC recommendations. He made these comments at a discussion he had with United Nations (UN) representatives and ambassadors of a few countries at the Ministry of Justice, this week.
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| Reconciliation requires a culture of respect for the Other |
| 2012-12-07 |
"Relationship-building following violent conflict, addressing issues of lack of trust, prejudice, and intolerance whilst accepting commonalities and differences, is the essence of reconciliation.
The culture of suspicion, fear, mistrust and violence needs to be removed and opportunities and space opened up in which people can hear each other and be heard. A culture of respect for human rights and human diversity needs to be developed creating an environment where each citizen becomes an active participant in
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| Do not act against the recommendations of the LLRC Report, requests Mano Ganeshan |
| 2012-11-22 |
Leader of the Democratic People's Front, Mano Ganeshan called on the government not to go against the LLRC Report.
He said this during a media briefing in Colombo Wednesday, with the participation of several other political representatives.
"The people living in the North do not need a Tamil army, be it male or female. What the Tamil people want is a Tamil Police. Strengthen the police and create a Sri Lankan force where there will be room for the Muslim and Tamil people.'&
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| CHR Final report on LLRC: The Wait for Justice |
| 2011-11-15 |
Executive Summary
Center for Human Rights (CHR) believes that civil society participation is crucial in converting testimonies into lessons learnt, and to push the government into adopting modern narrative techniques combined with expert knowledge guided by correct terms of references to achieve this. We believe that what is needed is a correct working definition for reconciliation suitable for Sri Lanka conditions. Further, there is a need to convert lessons learnt into policies without sendin
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| CHR reports on LLRC |
| 2011-05-13 |
The Center for Human Rights- Sri Lanka was established in 2010 in a bid to address the growing human rights concerns in the country and to educate the people about issues which have been neglected by the main stream media or civil society groups for various reasons.
In the past two years we have studied, spoken about and published greatly on Freedom of Information, Academic Freedom of Universities and the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.
We were the only independent civil society who observed the LLRC’s ou
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| Norway peace evaluation comes ahead of LLRC report |
| 2011-11-10 |
The Norwegian report comes ahead of the scheduled release of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) findings scheduled to be handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa next week.
Moragoda, now the Opposition Leader of the Colombo Municipal Council, will represent Sri Lanka as one of the those officials, who had been deeply involved in the last of the Oslo-led peace efforts, which collapsed in April 2003, when the LTTE quit the negotiating table during Ranil Wickremesinghe’s tenure as t
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| HR groups in indecent hurry to vilify Lanka - Ambassador Aryasinha |
| 2011-10-16 |
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It would appear that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group who sponsored the screening of the film ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing fields’, are intent on pre-judging and discrediting the LLRC report even before it is released, said Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha.
“This indecent hurry to host such events and to call for international inquiries, is probably due to their fear that once the LLRC report comes out, they will be sho
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| Experts checking Channel 4 film: LLRC |
| 2011-07-17 |
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The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) said yesterday it was still examining the Channel 4 film on allegations of war crimes committed by the LTTE and the security forces in Sri Lanka and telecast early last month.
LLRC spokesman Lakshman Wickremasinghe said the Channel 4 film, which was released on June 14 showing alleged war crimes by the military and the LTTE was viewed and analysed by the Commission but had to be examined by experts.
He said it was still uncertain as to whether details of the Channel 4
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