'India should raise UN report on Lanka rights violations'

Last Updated: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 17:36

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Tags: UN report on LTTE war, Sri Lanka, India

New Delhi: The CPI on Saturday demanded that India should raise the issue of the United Nations report on the last phase of the civil war in Sri Lanka that alleged human rights violations by the Army, during the meeting of UN Human Rights Commission at Geneva.

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, CPI national secretary D Raja said India and the government have the moral responsibility to raise the issue in international arena to bring the perpetrators of this "heinous crime to justice through the appropriate international bodies and mechanisms."

"I urge upon the Government of India to raise this issue in the current meeting of UN Human Rights Commission at Geneva," he said in the letter.

Raja said the international community was shocked to witness such "war crimes and gross violations of human rights" committed during the civil war in Sri Lanka.

He said the UN Advisory Panel in its report has highlighted that it is imperative that steps be taken to ensure accountability not be held hostage to unnecessarily slow or otherwise ineffective national efforts.

PTI

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First Published: Saturday, February 25, 2012, 17:35

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Shiva - Canada
If Indian Central Congress regime has collaborated with the Sri Lankan regime, how can they raise thise issue? That`s why Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi have not responded to the UN and US effcorts to date. Shame on the indian Congress regime and this will go down in history that the current Congress leaders were against the Tamils.