Sri Lanka is misleading the UN General Assembly


ii.Implementation:
”……… What we have realised is that it is extremely difficult to change the mindsets of some of the adults, who still have different views and ideas. Therefore, we switched our target group from adults to young students. We think it is an investment and most of our *activities under the five Rs target the youth, students and children. We want to invest in the next generation in Jaffna. ……..
”Military density in the North of Sri Lanka in ”peace time” is much higher than the Iraq siege, Northern Ireland in peak conflict time, Kashmir or French occupation of Algeria. ..….’’ – Notes on the Military Presence in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, Vol – XLVII No. 28, 7-14 July 2012, Economic and Political Weekly (reproduced on https://www.colombotelegrap
”……….. By redefining the conditions of the ethno-political conflict in a no-war context, the military defeat of the LTTE has opened a new historical space to find a durable solution to the ethno-political conflict. Simultaneously, it has created many constraints due to ‘triumphalism’ and the majoritarian mindset of the regime and its ethno-political clientele. ……….………..” – – Is Peace a Hostage of the Military Victory? Dilemmas of Reconciliation, Ethnic Cohesion and Peace-Building? Gamini Keerawala(Emeritus Professor of History, University of Peradeniya), Nov 2013, http://ices.lk/wp-conten
d. The UN must carefully watch Sri Lanka:
”….. Despite the end of three decades of war in Sri Lanka in May 2009, ethnic and religious violence has continued to take place in the country…..”: The Chronic and the Acute: Post-War Religious Violence in Sri Lanka, Gehan Gunatilleke, 2015, http://ices.lk/wp-conten
e. ”This new style of diplomacy emphasized form over function. Sri Lanka was able to postpone donor sanction by stringing critics along from one presidential order to the next, creating Commissions of Inquiry and temporary agencies, none of which delivered legal accountability for grave violations or real reform of systems. In the meantime, Sri Lanka’s human rights record remained among the worst in the world” – Sri Lanka: 20yrs of make–believe, Amnesty International, June 2009, https://www.amnesty.org/
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