Section of Sri Lankan citizens in north and east of Sri Lanka are in a quandary due to their human rights are being violated with impunity almost daily by the state and its armed forces in North and East of Sri Lanka who are supposed to be the guarantors of the law of the land according to a rights group who had representation in UNHRC in Geneva.

At least 50 people of all ages including family men with children have surrendered to the Jaffna Human Rights Commission (JHRC) within past one month alone fearing for their safety from the Sri Lankan Army and Paramilitary Men who have threatens them with deaths and abductions. According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) at least 50 Tamil civilians were unlawfully killed in the month of August in the north and east of Sri Lanka.

The United States-Based the Human Rights Watch (HRW) rights group said, in Sri Lanka, there were more than 550 extrajudicial executions in the north and east of Sri Lanka, 1100 abductions and more than 350 disappearances, between January and June this year.

The North and East of Sri Lanka, men women and children are being snatched from their homes, sometimes at night, sometime in broad daylight in front of their family members. Political, military and paramilitary intimidation seems to be the point.

Many of the corpses of Snatched civilians have also turned up in wells, road sides, and rivers. Most times these horrendous crimes against civilians remained unsolved and perpetrators are still at large and investigations are not carried out or largely ignored by the Sri Lankan authority the reasons for the call on the UN for the United Nations human rights monitoring mission in Sri Lanka, according to the HRW, AI, AHRC, ICJ and Sir John Holmes of UNHRC.

Sir John Holmes United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator and Under Secretary General of Humanitarian Affairs, end of his fact finding mission to Sri Lanka early last month said, “Sri Lanka is among the most dangerous places on earth for humanitarian workers, and called on the government to probe civil war abuses and consider an international rights monitoring mission.”

Rohitha Bogollagama said if the United Nations human rights monitoring mission to be based in his country it will affect the local investigation into the rights violations which his country determined to carry out. He said his government has stepped up arrests, prosecutions and convictions of those accused of rights abuses.

The Sri Lankan government has come under increasing international criticism for a series of high profile killings under unexplained circumstances amid a new wave of fighting in the past two years, including the execution-style slaying last year of 17 workers for the aid group Action against Hunger (ACF).

Sri Lanka, any human rights monitoring mission would and must be politically impartial and capable of investigating abuses by anyone. Escalating rights abuses in Sri Lanka for past two years have brought the situation in Sri Lanka to the world's attention. The government should take advantage of this raised international concern to seek the assistance of foreign governments in addressing the problems facing the country and in protecting the lives of its citizens, according to a rights group based in New York.

Escalating violence and dire human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, over 5,475 people were killed including 59 aid workers and 10 journalists, close to 500,000 people internally displaced (IDP) while over thousands people were abducted and hundreds are missing within past twenty one months says a rights group in Sri Lanka.

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