The Tamil National People’s Front today criticised the UN plan for a purely domestic incquiry, as revealed by Channel 4 News last night.
“To suggest an internal inquiry, despite the overwhelming evidence suggesting that the Sri Lankan state structure is so biased in its Sinhala Budhhist nationalist leanings, is to make a mockery of natural justice,” TNPF President Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam told the Tamil Guardian, adding that the revelation came at a time when Tamils have been becoming “increasingly cynical about the UNHRC agenda”.
“No one with the true intention of accountability at heart will accept anything short of a referral of Sri Lanka to the ICC or alternatively the setting up of a UN sponsored ad hoc tribunal on Sri Lanka. Accountability on the basis of criminal justice is non-negotiable from a Tamil victim's point of view,” Mr Ponnambalam further said.
UN does not see Tamils as partners in accountability process – Tamil Civil Society Forum (29 July 2015)
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