Although the human rights violations have been condemned both internally and internationally, intensity of abductions, murders, arrests etc have not receded at all. Meanwhile, former President Chandrika Bandarinike has assured to take up the question of human rights violations at the international level.

She has categorically stated that the democratically elected government cannot act as a terrorist. She made this remark and gave the undertaking, when Parliamentarians Mano Ganeshan and Suresh Premachandren met her at the official residence.

During this meeting, she recalled that there had been human rights violation on a large scale prior to her coming to power and that she not only put an end to those atrocities after she came to power and that she appointed Commissions of inquiry to go into those acts of human rights violations and brought the culprits to book.

Killings of people with impunity in north-east have created an impression among the international community that Sri Lanka is a dangerous place.

If Sri Lanka has to earn a good name as a country sans human rights violations, all such acts of violence should be halted. This lies in the hands of the government.

An English translation of the Editorial in Virakesari, a Tamil daily, based in Colombo

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