Why isn’t your government implementing its own LLRC recommendations?

That’s the refrain of those who have made the Geneva UNHRC sessions an article of faith, to coax the Sri Lankan nation to take cognizance of reconciliation issues after the war.

In pursuance of that task, they say that there are so many recommendations in the LLRC report which have been itemized in the National Action Plan, that have not been implemented.

The United States recently introduced its second United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on Sri Lanka, calling attention to the government’s alleged violations of international human rights law.

The resolution supports reconciliation efforts and requires government investigation into allegations of human rights abuses and indiscriminate killings of Tamil civilians that allegedly took place during the final days of the conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan governmen

India is in the process of working out its stand on the UN Resolution against Sri Lanka, government on Friday said with an emphasis that there should be accountability besides an "impartial, independent and transparent" probe into allegations of atrocities on Tamils.

External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid made a statement in the Rajya Sabha in the wake of demands made by DMK and AIADMK that India should support a US-moved resolution at UNHRC condemning killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka and holding of an independent i

The US today expressed disappointment over Sri Lanka’s rejection of recommendations by UPR states calling for the implementation of the LLRC recommendations.

During the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Sri Lanka, a number of States had called for the implementation of the recommendations of Sri Lanka’s own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), the delegation of the United States of America said at the 22nd Session Human Rights Council.

New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Despite Sri Lanka's hopes, India is likely to back the US-sponsored resolution at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva against Colombo - if there is a vote.

But this decision will not be influenced by the anger in Tamil Nadu against the killing of large numbers of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan military in the war against the Tamil Tigers. New Delhi is convinced that while rehabilitation of the war displaced is taking place in the island's northeast in some measure, Sri Lanka does

Tamil Nadu shuts down colleges to prevent student protests against Sri Lanka
The government has asked 438 arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu to be closed immediately till further orders as student organisations across the state gear up to organise massive protests from Monday.

The students are demanding that India vote against Sri Lanka on a resolution expected to be moved at a meeting of the United Nation's Human Rights Council in Geneva this month.

The killing of five students in Trincomalee, the religious tensions raised by the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) and comments made by Minister Mervyn Silva were mention by non-governmental organisations at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) today.

Speaking just before the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report on Sri Lanka was adopted, the father of one of the students killed in Trincomalee in 2006, broke down in tears and demanded justice for his son’s murder.

Dr Kasippillai Manoharan, the father of Ragihar, apologized

“Gothabaya told us that the government was sure the LTTE did not believe in a political solution. He said the GSL has recently come into possession of a videotape of a speech by Prabhakaran apparently recorded about two months after the signing of the CFA in 2002. In the video, Karuna was standing next to Prabhakaran and introduced him. Prabhakaran asserted that the LTTE knew it would never reach its goal of a Tamil Homeland (“Eelam”) through peaceful means. He told Karuna’s cadres, who were about to return to the

The government today assured the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) of progress in the promotion and protection of human rights for the benefit of the Sri Lankan people by 2017.

Mahinda Samarasinghe, Minister of Plantation Industries and Special Envoy to the President told the Council today during the adoption of Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Report (UPR) that a national mechanism will take into consideration the recommendations supported and pledges made consequent to the adoption of the Report before the Council.

Senior Japanese diplomat Yasushi Akashi said that Japan was not ready to go with the human rights stands of other nations, ignoring the objective realities in Sri Lanka.

Speaking to media in Tokyo on March 13, the former peace envoy to Sri Lanka said that, “it is rather unfair for some developed countries, who have much more resources than Sri Lanka, to express impatience with Sri Lanka and its development; but this is not fair and this is not objective.”