A decision is scheduled to be taken in Geneva, today, Thursday.

The Human Rights Council has Expressing its concern at the recent escalation of violence in Sri Lanka, following resumption of hostilities, leading to increasing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, including increased extra-judicial killings and disappearances, impunity and large scale displacement.

All these violations have flared into a gigantic proportion since November 2005, when Mahinda Rajapakse assumed Presidency with his policy of genocide.

On his Election Platform, he rejected the Ceasefire Agreement and all peace build-ups trying to restore sanity among the majority Sinhalese in the country.

Rajapakse has a habit of promising compliance and cooperation first and abandoning it when time for action arrives. When there was an outcry recently at the massacre of the French INGO volunteers, Rajapakse rushed to invite an international commission of inquiry. But when it came to action, he kept them at bay, offering an Observation position to the international monitors.

On the eve of his world tour to Havana and New York, Rajapakse wore on an enlightened pacifist mantle, inviting international commission of inquiry into all extra-judicial killings, disappearances and impunity.

But, soon after his return, he has started insisting on an observer position to whoever wants to come.

The Human Rights Council, in its decision today, is proposing to strengthen its presence in Sri Lanka and to report on these efforts, much to the chagrin of Mahinda Rajapakse and his extremist partners, the JVP and JHU.

The decision, drafted and presented by Finland, on behalf of the European Union, when implemented, is bound to expose the horrendous atrocities perpetrated on the Tamil civilians throughout the country and especially in the North-East.

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