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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12306346" data-attributes="member: 92282">Human Rights Watch said Thursday that it was wrong on the part of the  Sri Lankan government to link those questioning the country's human  rights record with the Tamil Tigers."The (Mahindra) Rajapaksa government's strident opposition to this is  hard to understand," a Human Rights Watch spokeswoman said, ahead of the  voting in Geneva on a US-sponsored resolution denouncing "war crimes"  in Sri Lanka during the end stages of the war in 2009. The spokeswoman said the resolution only asks Colombo to take credible  steps to ensure justice and accountability following the end of the  long-drawn war that cost thousands of lives. "These are the expectations from any responsible government that must  examine allegations of violations against its own people," she said. The  spokeswoman said Colombo insists that anyone calling for accountability  "is somehow linked to the LTTE", the vanquished Liberation Tigers of  Tamil Eelam. "How does the government even justify such claims? Human Rights Watch  has numerous reports on abuses by the LTTE, the US that is sponsoring  the resolution had proscribed the LTTE, and the Tamil political parties  in India, calling for support to the resolution, have long criticized  LTTE actions including the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. "Sri Lankans should really start wondering what the Rajapaksa government wants to hide." IANS</blockquote>

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