“The Supreme Court ealier made an order regarding indiscriminate arrests, detention of Tamil people and their compulsory expulsion from Colombo, when it heard a fundamental rights application.”
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- The Sudar Oli Editorial
(July 05, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The government maintains that it is committed to liberating Vanni from the LTTE control and to bring it under its control. Therefore, it is clear that government proposes to unleash a war in that area.
The President maintains that the war is a humanitarian endeavour to liberate the Tamil people from the clutches of the LTTE. He maintains that the war is waged to restore democracy in that part of the country. He further pledges that in as much as the east is already liberated by the forces, the north too would be liberated soon.
The present report of the Human Rights Watch has revealed the reality. It indicates the nature of life that awaits the people who will be liberated from the LTTE by the forces.
Human Rights Watch has spot lighted with statistics that the government is holding 400 Tamil civilians who were fleeing the north following the war that is waged. They are held at a welfare centre at Kallimnoddai in the Mannar district.
Human Rights Watch has stated that the Sri Lankan government should not treat civilians as criminals just because they are fleeing a conflict area.
Human Rights Watch points out that while the government has an obligation to protect the internally displaced persons, it cannot do so at the expense of their lawful right to liberty and freedom of movement. This is a semblance of the manner in which the liberated people will be treated.
The Supreme Court ealier made an order regarding indiscriminate arrests, detention of Tamil people and their compulsory expulsion from Colombo, when it heard a fundamental rights application.
The civilians, who are held following their fleeing in the north, may have to seek justice from the judiciary.
(An English translation of the Editorial in The Sudar Oli, a Tamil daily, based in Colombo [04-06-2008])
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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- The Sudar Oli Editorial
(July 05, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The government maintains that it is committed to liberating Vanni from the LTTE control and to bring it under its control. Therefore, it is clear that government proposes to unleash a war in that area.
The President maintains that the war is a humanitarian endeavour to liberate the Tamil people from the clutches of the LTTE. He maintains that the war is waged to restore democracy in that part of the country. He further pledges that in as much as the east is already liberated by the forces, the north too would be liberated soon.
The present report of the Human Rights Watch has revealed the reality. It indicates the nature of life that awaits the people who will be liberated from the LTTE by the forces.
Human Rights Watch has spot lighted with statistics that the government is holding 400 Tamil civilians who were fleeing the north following the war that is waged. They are held at a welfare centre at Kallimnoddai in the Mannar district.
Human Rights Watch has stated that the Sri Lankan government should not treat civilians as criminals just because they are fleeing a conflict area.
Human Rights Watch points out that while the government has an obligation to protect the internally displaced persons, it cannot do so at the expense of their lawful right to liberty and freedom of movement. This is a semblance of the manner in which the liberated people will be treated.
The Supreme Court ealier made an order regarding indiscriminate arrests, detention of Tamil people and their compulsory expulsion from Colombo, when it heard a fundamental rights application.
The civilians, who are held following their fleeing in the north, may have to seek justice from the judiciary.
(An English translation of the Editorial in The Sudar Oli, a Tamil daily, based in Colombo [04-06-2008])
- Sri Lanka Guardian
HRW should in all honesty pressure all governments of the world(including UK, US and Europe)to grant visas for political migrants and refugees without keeping them discontent in 'welfare centers' and prisons.
Get your news right, compusury expulsion is a wanni reality, not that of multy-party, multy-lingual and multy-'ethnic' democratic socialist republic of Sri Lanka.
HRW should congrdulate not criticize that the people are at a welfare centre. HRW should recognize that people have been moving out of wanni (for some years now) and not the other way around. The govt. is doing its duty to shelter and feed these people as well as to look after their safety and the security of all its people. Today we cannot get on a plane in many parts of the world with out being searched 'like a criminal'. what is HRW doing about this and what is it doing about wanni fascism and baby army?
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