மூதூர் அரச சார்பற்ற நிறுவனப் பணியாளர்கள் படுகொலை விசாரணைக்காக சிறிலங்கா வந்த அவுஸ்திரேலிய தடவியல் வல்லுநர்கள் ஏமாற்றத்துடன் நாடு திரும்பிவிட்டனர்.

சர்வதேச சமூகத்தின் அழுத்தங்களையடுத்து மூதூர் படுகொலை தொடர்பாக வெளிநாட்டு வல்லுநர்களை சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கம் வரவழைத்தது.

ஆனால் உரிய சட்டப்பூர்வமான அனுமதியை அவர்களுக்கு அளிப்பதிலும் அது தொடர்பான ஓப்பந்தத்தை நிறைவேற்றுவதிலும் சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கம் இழுத்தடிப்புச் செய்தது.

இதனால் மூதூர் பணியாளர்களின் உடல்கள் மீள் பிரேத பரிசோதனை செய்யப்படாத நிலைமை நீடித்து வந்தது.

இதனையடுத்து விரக்தியடைந்த அவுஸ்திரேலிய வல்லுநர்கள் தங்களது நாட்டுக்குத் திரும்பிவிட்டனர்.

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படுகொலை விசாரணைகளில் ஈடுபாட்டுடன் அரசாங்கம் செயற்படவில்லை: கண்காணிப்புக் குழுத் தலைவர் குற்றச்சாட்டு

சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கமானது படுகொலைகள் தொடர்பிலான விசாரணகைளில் முழுமையான ஈடுபட்டுடன் செயற்படவில்லை என்று இலங்கை போர் நிறுத்த கண்காணிப்புக் குழுத் தலைவர் லார்ஸ் ஜொஹான் ஷோல்வ்பெர்க் குற்றம்சாட்டியுள்ளார்.

ரொய்ட்டர்ஸ் செய்தி நிறுவனத்துக்கு அவர் அளித்த நேர்காணலில் கூறியுள்ளதாவது:

இருதரப்பினராலும் மேற்கொள்ளப்படுகிற வன்முறையின் தன்மை அதிர்ச்சியளிக்கக் கூடியதாக உள்ளது. மிகவும் அதிருப்தியடைந்துள்ளோம். இந்த வன்முறையின் அளவு குறைவதாகத் தெரியவில்லை.

சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கமானது படுகொலைகள் தொடர்பிலான விசாரணைகளில் முழு மனதுடன் செயற்படவில்லை. எமக்கு வருத்தமளிக்கிறது. இது புத்திசாலித்தனமானது அல்ல.

ஏனெனில் சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கம் தொடர்பில் சர்வதேச சமூகத்தினது நம்பிக்கையும் பொறுமையும் இழந்து வருகிறது. மூதூர் படுகொலைகள் போன்றவை தொடர்பில் சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கமானது சர்வதேச சமூகத்தின் கடும் அதிருப்திக்கு முகம் கொடுக்க நேரிடும்.

சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கமும் தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகளும் பரஸ்பரம் குற்றம்சாட்டுக்கின்றனர். எந்தத் தரப்பும் வன்முறையை நிறுத்துவதாக தெரியவில்லை.

யாழ்ப்பாணத்தினது நிலைமை மிக மோசமாக உள்ளது என்றார் ஷோல்வ்பெர்க்.

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INTERVIEW-Sri Lanka, rebels as bad as each other-monitor

COLOMBO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new Nordic peace monitor has been in the job for less than a month, and already he is shocked and disappointed at what he sees.

Since taking over as head of the unarmed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission this month after his predecessor was forced out by a rebel ultimatum, Norwegian Major-General Lars Johan Solvberg has had to deal with a military offensive and a civilian massacre.

"The nature of the violence by all parties in this conflict is shocking. I'm disappointed to see no real sign of will to limit this violence," Solvberg told Reuters on Tuesday in his first interview at the mission's new office in a leafy residential quarter of Colombo.

"I am also disappointed ... that the government side is not doing a wholehearted approach to investigate these brutal incidents, which elsewhere in the world would be a major, major case for the authorities," Solvberg said.

Hundreds of civilians, troops and Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed since late July in the worst violence since a 2002 truce gave way to renewed civil war.

The monitors have blamed both sides for a series of gross violations of the term of the truce, and pinned the execution-style killings of 17 local staff of aid group Action Contre La Faim in August on the security forces.

"I think it's unwise by the government, because the international community is losing its patience and the credibility of the government in the face of international opinion is severely hampered by the fact that they are not pursuing these incidents," Solvberg said.

TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE

"If you see the violations in general, numbers and gravity put together, my birds eye view on this is that there is no significant difference in the gravity of the violations (by either side)," he added. "That's a totally unacceptable situation if one should commit oneself to the CFA (ceasefire agreement)."

The government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) accuse each other of being behind abuses and of starting confrontations.

Each side argues that they still honour the truce, and that their foe is trying to force a full-blown return to a war that has killed more than 65,000 people since 1983.

Thousands of displaced civilians caught in the middle continue to pay a heavy price -- particularly in the besieged army-held Jaffna peninsula in the island's far north, which is cut off from the rest of the island by rebel lines and where emergency food supplies must be shipped in and are insufficient.

"The situation in Jaffna is very alarming. It's a ship that is barely floating," Solvberg said. "Most of the mechanisms of the society are about to collapse."

-Reuters

Frustrated Australian forensics return home

Australian forensic experts who were brought down to investigate the killing of 17 aid workers in Mutur last month have returned home, frustrated by having to idle in Sri Lanka until legal and other modalities were cleared.

The experts were brought down with the mandate to carry out the second post mortem on the victims of the French aid agency but they were initially forced to wait owing to a delay in the Australian and Sri Lankan governments signing the necessary agreements and exhumation of the bodies.On a Magisterial directive the bodies of two of the victims were exhumed for CID investigations while the remaining bodies are scheduled to be exhumed before October 2, for further investigations and the Australian experts are expected back in the country in time for the exhumation.

“The experts decided to go back to Australia because they had sophisticated equipment with them which was idling for a long time. They should be back before the remaining bodies are exhumed or the purpose of inviting them will be lost,” legal sources from the aid agency told The Daily Mirror.

The Australian forensics were invited by the Sri Lankan government following controversy raised over the killing of the Paris based Action Without Hunger aid workers from with both the government and the LTTE blaming each other for the death and the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission pointing fingers at the security forces.

-Daily Mirror

AP Interview: Sri Lankan violence worst in four years, monitor says

By ANTHONY DEUTSCH

AP

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka faces a "dramatic and deteriorating" humanitarian crisis caused by the worst violence since the inception of a 2002 cease-fire agreement, the head of a Nordic monitoring mission said Tuesday.

Heavy battles between Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels since July have killed at least 1,000 and forced more than 220,000 people from their homes in the worst effected north and east.

The recent bloodshed is undermining a 2002 cease-fire deal, worked out after 19 years of civil war that killed 65,000 people, and efforts by Norwegian mediators to initiate fresh peace talks.

Although the most severe clashes have subsided since August, aerial bombings, artillery and mortar shelling, sea battles and individual shootings continue to kill combatants and civilians every day.

"We see a period of the most serious violations of the CFA (cease-fire agreement) since it was created in 2002, with offensive military operations and territory shifting hands," Lars Solvberg, the new head of the Nordic-led Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.

Solvberg, who took over as the head of the mission on Sept. 1, said the organization created as a peace monitor is effectively "here now to see how massively the parties are violating this agreement."

Amid daily clashes, "the most important issue right now is that we have this void - that the humanitarian situation is dramatic and is deteriorating day by day," he said.

The monsoon season is rapidly approaching and the displaced urgently need shelter, he said, referring to tens of thousands of people who fled the strategic eastern harbor area of Trincomalee, where government troops repelled a rebel offensive earlier this month.

In the northern Jaffna Peninsula, where killings and abductions are reported daily, the situation is heading toward "the state of collapse," he said.

Solvberg backed an appeal last week by U.N. human rights chief Louise Arbour for international action against what she called "grave breaches of international human rights and humanitarian law" in Sri Lanka.

He said it "would be a good idea" to have U.N. investigators in Sri Lanka to evaluate "the human rights situation, because it is so huge."

The mission has no prosecutorial powers, but has offices throughout the country documenting as many incidents as possible.

Among the most flagrant atrocities are the execution-style killings of 17 Sri Lankan aid workers for Action Against Hunger last month in the eastern town of Mutur and the slaying of 10 Muslim laborers near the southeastern town Pottuvil on Sept. 17.

With so many crimes being committed, Solvberg believes outside intervention is needed to ensure they don't go unpunished.

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