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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour is to visit on October 10th, 2007 on fact finding mission as well as to investigate rights situations in Sri Lanka. Louise Arbour has called on the Sri Lankan Government to allow and facilitate the visits to Wanni which is under the governance of the rebels, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with their own police, courts, banks, law colleges, and etc.
The Sri Lankan Government has refused and turned down to grant the permission to Louise Arbour visit to Wanni citing the security threats and guarantees to her safety according to the Sri Lankan government sources.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour is to visit on October 10th, 2007 on fact finding mission as well as to investigate rights situations in Sri Lanka.
Louise Arbour has called on the Sri Lankan Government to allow and facilitate the visits to Wanni which is under the governance of the rebels, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with their own police, courts, banks, law colleges, and etc.
The Sri Lankan Government has refused and turned down to grant the permission to Louise Arbour visit to Wanni citing the security threats and guarantees to her safety according to the Sri Lankan government sources.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour is to have series of meetings with the minister for the human rights in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, other political party leaders, members of the community and civil society leaders, non governmental humanitarian organizations officials and other relevant people.
End of her visits, she is to have a press meeting in Colombob. Much of most NGOs disappointments, the Sri Lanka once again left off the hook by the international community amid numerous detail evidences presented by the NGOs on the state abuses in Sri Lanka against civilians of the last week sessions at UNHRC.
At least 5,472 people killed, over 1000 people abducted and over thousands disappeared including hundreds of children in the enforced violence within past two years alone. In the, North and East of Sri Lanka, without any let up, numerous state enforced rights abuses are taking place against civilians with no end in sight for them and they are in quandary according to a rights group.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour expected visit to Sri Lanka next week expected by the civilians in the north and east including Vanni to bring hopes to the hopeless and helpless rights situations in the north and east of Sri Lanka another rights group’s personal said in Colombo.
A rights group urges United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to pay greater attention to the facts such as enforced mass abductions, mass disappearances, unlawful execution style summery killings, mass murders, tortures, rapes, destruction of personal, public and cultural properties, forceful displacements and unwillingness and inability of the Sri Lankan states to take control the worsening rights situation as UN Human Rights Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sir John Holmes, the United States-Based the Human Rights Watch (HRW), the London-Based Amnesty International (AI) and the Hong Kong – Based Asian Human Rights Commissions (AHRC), ICJ, IFJ ICRC and IIGEP pointed out in their recent reports on rights situations in Sri Lanka.
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