Five Sri Lankan diaspora groups led by the Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement held a three-hour protest last Thursday against what they called UN interference in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and the imposition of unacceptable conditions that vitiate the country’s independence and integrity. Some 60 protestors gathered outside the United Nations Association in London [...]

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Lankan groups protest against UN meddling in internal affairs

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Five Sri Lankan diaspora groups led by the Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement held a three-hour protest last Thursday against what they called UN interference in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and the imposition of unacceptable conditions that vitiate the country’s independence and integrity.

Some 60 protestors gathered outside the United Nations Association in London calling on the world body to respect Sri Lanka’s sovereignty and totally rejecting the US sponsored resolution passed at the UN Human Rights Council last September calling for the setting up of a special court with participation of foreign judges, prosecutors and investigators to try persons alleged to have committed crimes and violated international law during the last stages of the armed conflict against the LTTE.

A 28-point document listing the various crimes committed by the LTTE and the opposition of the groups to the proposed trial against those who fought to rescue Sri Lanka from terrorism and save the nation from division, was handed over by Ajith Silva, one of the organisers of the protest, to a UN Association staffer to be forwarded to the relevant UN bodies.

Harsha Dias Subasinghe, another protest organiser told the Sunday Times that they have pointed out to the UN that Sri Lanka is recovering from 26-years of war forced on the country by the LTTE and the present generation of Sri Lankans have the opportunity to move forward in peace and create a more developed country.

“The UN bodies should not deprive Sri Lanka of this historic opportunity,” he said.

The protest letter copied to Prince Zeid al- Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is also addressed to British Prime Minister David Cameron, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Sri Lanka’s President and Prime Minister.

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