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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12170873" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGMoDxbftDpY0rBXRlwWv5PBsVCFSFSFfvX-xMPPQB6PeOceXn" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Two days ahead of the 19th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights  Council (UNHRC) here in Geneva, Human Rights Commissioner Navanethem Pillay raised the issue that the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation  Commission (LLRC) had not dealt with the accountability issues raised in  the UN panel report dubbed by the government as the Darusman report.A top government delegation led by External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris met with Ms. Pillay in Geneva yesterday. Irrigation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva who participated in the  meeting told journalists that the government delegation promptly  responded to her remarks in this respect.  “We corrected her immediately. We have dealt with accountability  issues,” he said.  He added that it is the people of Sri Lanka and not  external forces that should approve any reconciliation process. “We made that point during the discussion. Whatever it is, the people of  Sri Lanka should approve it. We categorically told her that the people  of Sri Lanka watched how Osama Bin Laden was killed. Yet, nobody raised  any human rights issue with regard to Bin Laden’s murder,” he said.  At that point, Ms. Pillay had said that she issued a statement on that  issue.  She had also told the Sri Lankan delegation that she had no say  in the resolution to be moved by the United States against Sri Lanka  during the sessions.   Meanwhile, Prof. Peiris said that he challenged the credibility of the  Darusman report. He told journalists that the report is based on  evidence gathered from anonymous sources. The panel has given immunity  for these sources to remain anonymous for 20 years.  “I asked Ms. Pillay who is also a former judge how anyone can trust the  findings of such a panel. She said that the panel was not allowed to do  investigations. Then I asked again how the report prepared without  investigations could be accepted,” he said.  DM</blockquote>

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