ஸ்ரீலங்கா வருவதற்கு ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் விசாரணைக் குழுவுக்கு விஸா வழங்கப்போவதில்லை என்று மகிந்த ராஜபக்ச அறிவிப்பு. இன்று செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை காலை அலரி மாளிகையில் வெளிநாட்டு ஊடகவியலாளர் குழு ஒன்றைச் சந்தித்த போதே ராஜபக்சவினால் இந்த செய்தி தெரியப்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது

ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபையின் மனித உரிமைகள் குழுவுக்கும் அதன் விசாரணைகளுக்கும் ஒத்துழைக்க ஸ்ரீலங்கா முற்றாக மறுத்து விட்டது.

ஆனால் விசா தராவிட்டாலும் கூட விசாரணை தொடர்ந்து நடைபெறும். ஸ்ரீலங்கா போகாமலேயே விசாரணையை நடத்த முடியும் என்று ஆணையத் தலைவர் நவிபிள்ளை ஏற்கனவே கூறியுள்ளார் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

 

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Sri Lanka to refuse entry to UN investigators

Sri Lanka’s government has said that UN experts investigating war crimes will not be allowed into the country. The UN wants to probe crimes allegedly committed during the Tamil separatist conflict.

Sri Lanka’s President Mahindra Rajapakse said that his government will not grant visas to United Nations investigators probing allegations related to the 26-year-long war with Tamil separatists.

“We will not allow them into the country,” Rajapakse confirmed, adding that any allegations related to the war would be investigated through a local panel. The panel will have Sri Lankan officials, two experts from India and Pakistan as well as three international experts appointed last month.

This local commission will look into possible war crimes and rights abuses by Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels. According to Rajapakse, the panel received around 20,000 complaints and was about to begin examining the missing persons list. He said that some of these missing people had sought refuge in other countries and that details about them were hard to get.

President Rajapakse is under international pressure to cooperate with the UN probe, but has refused to accept the authority of the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC).

“We are saying that we do not accept it (the probe). We are against it,” Rajapakse told international journalists in Colombo, adding that his government did not have a problem cooperating with UN agencies other than the human rights commission.
However, the UN rights Chief Navi Pillay said earlier this month that her investigators may not need to travel to Sri Lanka at all and that there was a “wealth of information” about the killings outside the country.

Source: Reuters, Afp