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Suspend Sri Lanka from the Commonwealt(தேவை உங்கள் கையெழுத்து)

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Ask the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group to Suspend Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka's war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against Tamils, which peaked in 2009 and continues today, requires that Sri Lanka be suspended from the Councils of the Commonwealth. The next key Commonwealth event, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2013 (CHOGM), is due to be held in Sri Lanka this November. Holding CHOGM in Sri Lanka, amidst blanket impunity for Sri Lanka's mass atrocities against Tamils in 2009 and escalating human rights violations occurring today, would be an egregious embarrassment to the Commonwealth.
 
The Commonwealth Law Conference held recently in South Africa with 27 Chief Justices, unanimously passed a resolution asking the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) "to place Sri Lanka on the agenda of the next meeting on April 26, and suspend it from the Councils of the Commonwealth for serious and persistent violations of the Commonwealth's fundamental values." The resolution also called upon Commonwealth countries to "reconsider" holding CHOGM in Lanka, and blamed the SL government for its role in impeaching Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake "in defiance of the judgments of the highest courts in Sri Lanka." Justice Bandaranayake was unlawfully impeached in January by a parliamentary committee, after Sri Lanka's Supreme Court held her impeachment proceedings to be unconstitutional.
 
Suspending Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth will send a clear message to the Sri Lankan government as well as other oppressive regimes around the world, that the Commonwealth is willing and able to take decisive action in the face of the world's worst crimes. If CMAG does not decide to suspend Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth, it should at least move the venue of the upcoming CHOGM. Though a change of venue will not in itself bring accountability or justice to the island, to hold CHOGM in Sri Lanka would effectively endorse a state that willfully falls far short of the Commonwealth's vision.
 
As Human Rights Watch stated: "The Sri Lankan government's blatant disregard for the Commonwealth's principles of human rights and democratic reform makes it a poor host for this important event. Unless the government urgently addresses abuses and ends impunity, the international recognition it will gain by hosting the Commonwealth summit while repressing its key values will be an embarrassment to the Commonwealth and its member countries."
 
We are also deeply concerned that in addition to hosting CHOGM 2013, Sri Lanka will also hold the chairmanship of the Commonwealth from 2013 to 2015. Granting Sri Lanka leadership of the Commonwealth, at a time when the state has allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and ongoing human rights violations levelled against it by a United Nations Panel of Experts and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, would reflect poorly on the Commonwealth's stated commitment to human rights.
 
Thus, we urge you to immediately suspend Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth. In the alternative, we request that you to shift the venue of CHOGM from Sri Lanka to a country that upholds the values of the Commonwealth.
 
 
 
 
 
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