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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12174125" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's main Tamil party TNA has decided not to attend next week's  UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meet in Geneva, where a resolution is  expected to be moved against the Colombo government over its rights  record, saying that it does not want to "exacerbate tensions"."The  TNA (Tamil National Alliance) considers it imperative that in the  present situation calm should be maintained and that nothing should be  done which could exacerbate tensions. In these circumstances the TNA has  decided not to be present in Geneva," a statement issued by the party  said.The 19th session of the UNHRC starting next Monday is  expected to take up a US-backed resolution on Sri Lanka over its rights  accountability record.The government here has mobilised street protests against the possible US move.Colombo  has asserted that it has already started implementing the  recommendations of its own accountability probe by the Lessons Learnt  and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) on the country's rights record  during the LTTE conflict.The TNA said the government's predicament vis a vis the international community was due to its own failures."The  Sri Lankan State has a notorious reputation for failure to fulfil  commitments it makes, and for not making public reports of processes  which could hold it accountable," the statement said.The  government brands TNA a proxy of the defeated LTTE and accuses them of  furthering the Tamil Tigers' separatist cause with the backing of the  pro-rebel diaspora.PTI</blockquote>

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