[TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 21:56 GMT]
Abrogation of the CFA by the Government of Sri Lanka has removed the only reporting body of human rights and humanitarian law violations that take place in Sri Lanka, said K. Sivapalan, a senior attorney-at-law from Trincomalee, addressing four hundred participants, mainly members of the Tamil diaspora, who participated in a march carrying torches towards the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo, expressing solidarity with the Tamils in the homeland Wednesday evening.
Although the SLMM had become infective in its original role as monitors due to fragile peace, it served as a reporting body in the absence of an alternate International institution to monitor the human rights situation in the island where the national Human Rights Commission was not functioning optimally, Mr. Sivapalan, who had served as a member of the Local Monitoring Committee (LMC) of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in Trincomalee, in the begining.
Giving an example of a Internationally exposed human rights violation, he said, those who were responsible for the massacre of 17 humanitarian workers of the International NGO Action Contre La Faim (ACF) in Moothoor in Trincomalee were brought out to the notice of the world by the SLMM. "If not for their action, this grave incident could have also been swept under the carpet," he said.
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Abrogation of the CFA by the Government of Sri Lanka has removed the only reporting body of human rights and humanitarian law violations that take place in Sri Lanka, said K. Sivapalan, a senior attorney-at-law from Trincomalee, addressing four hundred participants, mainly members of the Tamil diaspora, who participated in a march carrying torches towards the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo, expressing solidarity with the Tamils in the homeland Wednesday evening.
Although the SLMM had become infective in its original role as monitors due to fragile peace, it served as a reporting body in the absence of an alternate International institution to monitor the human rights situation in the island where the national Human Rights Commission was not functioning optimally, Mr. Sivapalan, who had served as a member of the Local Monitoring Committee (LMC) of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in Trincomalee, in the begining.
Giving an example of a Internationally exposed human rights violation, he said, those who were responsible for the massacre of 17 humanitarian workers of the International NGO Action Contre La Faim (ACF) in Moothoor in Trincomalee were brought out to the notice of the world by the SLMM. "If not for their action, this grave incident could have also been swept under the carpet," he said.
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