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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12644810" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRC1tGhHh9xKZW7UfOGcpdsp6F1X47VadloUwXQX7El-UIqY7E6" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka will officially protest against UNHRC chief Navi Pillay,  accusing her of violating her mandate over adoption of a resolution that  censured Colombo on its rights record during the war against Tamil  rebels.The nation's protest against Pillay is to be based on the  role she and her staff played in adopting the resolution against Sri  Lanka in late March, according to a report in the Daily Mirror here today.The  resolution had criticised Sri Lanka over its rights accountability  front during the three-decade-long civil war and urged the country to  work towards expeditious implementation of the recommendations of its  own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC).Another  part of the resolution requires the UN High Commissioner to submit a  report on the measures taken by the government to address human rights  issues, to its session scheduled for March next year.In a  related development, External Affairs Ministry sources had said  Ambassador Tamara Kunanayagam, a Tamil, who spearheaded the unsuccessful  Sri Lankan campaign to try and defeat the resolution has protested  against an alleged move to transfer her to a posting elsewhere.According  to the paper, Kunanayagam in her letter to External Affairs G L Peiris  had said if she were to be removed from Geneva, those who point to  discrimination of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka would feel vindicated.PTI</blockquote>

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