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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 766967" data-attributes="member: 212">The Human Rights Watch report on Sri Lanka is misleading, rife withcontradictions and could be used by organizations like the LTTE todisrupt the democratically elected governments like Sri Lanka,Government's Peace Secretariat Head, Rajiva Wijesinha, said in aletter to the U.S. based human rights group.Wijesinha charged Human Rights Watch of being selective in its releasein concentrating criticism on the human rights record of Sri LankanPresident Mahinda Rajapaksa. "Your report is a repetition of theunequivocal criticism of the current Sri Lanka government, that isgrist to the mill of not only the LTTE but also others in Sri Lankawho deplore the results of democratic elections and hope instead thatagencies like yours will help to disrupt the government," Wijesinhasaid in a letter to Brad Adams, Director of the Asia Division of HumanRights Watch.The assertion that there has been a dramatic increase in abuses by thegovernment during the past 18 months is designed to imply that theRajapaksa government has misbehaved from the time it was elected, butthat assertion is contradicted in other paragraphs in the releaseitself as well as in the full report, the Secretary General declared.Referring to the report's assertion that government authorities haveforced some to return to areas that remain insecure, the SLGPSecretary General said: "The selectivity of the report is mostdepressing and ignores the current situation."In fact in the report itself, allegations of forced return of peopleare attributed to a single interview with a single humanitarianworker. The report omits the current situation, where UNCHR staffmonitoring the situation reported that the majority of the people areeager to return home, the returns are voluntary and in line withinternational standards, Wijesinha said.Source: Daily Mirror</blockquote>

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