(March 05, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Government today accused the Human Rights Watch of helping to promote terrorism instead of helping to eradicate terrorism.At a news briefing today, cabinet spokesman Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa told journalists that the government strongly denies any kind of statement made by the HRW.
He said that some of the people in these human rights organizations do support terrorism in a major way and play a big role in promoting terrorism.
Minister Yapa admitted that certain problems may rise in distribution of goods and providing facilities for the IDPs’and that does not mean the government is acting in an irresponsible manner.
The statement came less than two weeks ago after Anna Neistat, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's emergencies division told the US Senate during a hearing on Sri Lanka two weeks ago that she carried out a research on the displaced persons from Wanni and that civilians who manage to escape the Tamil Tigers and the shelling soon find themselves locked up in military camps by the government, surrounded by barbed wire and cut off from the outside world. -Sri Lanka Guardian
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