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Featured Article: Statistics on Civilians Affected by War in Northeast 1974-2004 Full Report

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Friday, 06 January 2006
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10. Recommendation

In January 2005, when this report is published, the attack by military on civilians in Northeast has again begun to increase to alarming levels. This only shows that the lull in the worst form of attacks immediately after the ceasefire was signed is a superficial change. Many international observers tended to take this lull as a change in the conduct of the Sri Lankan military. This has been proved to be wrong by the recent events. We will be issuing another report on the more recent human rights violations by the Sri Lankan military against the people of Northeast.

Our first recommendation to both parties to the conflict and to the international community is to overcome obstacles to find a resolution to the Tamil aspiration for self determination. Clearly this can occur only with the withdrawal of the Sinhala only occupying military from the Northeast. This is more so when seen against the backdrop of the enormous human rights violations committed by this military.

Our second recommendation is to the international human rights organizations (IHRO). It is indeed difficult to establish to what extent serious human rights violations like that have occurred in the Northeast, are kept away from the focus of the human rights reports by IHRO. It is certain that the human rights violations in Northeast was not focused on sufficiently in the human rights reports of the IHRO. If the IHRO had reported the violations that had occurred in Northeast more thoroughly, it is certain that the level of violations would have been reduced.

IHRO should, therefore, examine their approaches to reporting human rights issues by examining their own reports on the human rights violations in Northeast over the three decades covered in this report. This, as will be agreed by all, is absolutely essential if human rights is to be protected universally.


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