இலங்கை சுமுகமாக்கலில் இருந்து தள்ளி போகின்றது - சர்வதேச நெருக்கடிகள் அமைப்பு

ICG: Sri Lanka further from reconciliation than ever

(மேற்குலக கொள்கை வகுப்பாளர்கள் மத்தியில், முக்கியமாக வாசிங்க்டன், உன்னிப்பாக கருதப்படும் ஒரு அமைப்பு - சர்வதேச நெருக்கடிகள் அமைப்பு )

போருக்கு பின்னரான காலப்பகுதியில் மகிந்த அரசு தமிழ் மக்களுடன் நல்லெண்ணத்தை ஏற்படும் முயற்சிகளில் இருந்து தூரவே செல்லுகின்றது. ஜனநாயகம் அனைத்து மக்களுக்கும் கிடைக்காத ஒன்றாக ஆட்சி மாறி வருகின்றது. மீண்டும் போருக்கான சாத்தியங்கள் உள்ளன.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s authoritarian and Sinhalese nationalist post-war policies are undermining prospects for reconciling Sri Lanka’s ethnic communities, weakening democracy for all Sri Lankans and increasing the risk of a return to violent conflict, the International Crisis Group warned Monday, announcing its latest report, ‘Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: Harder than Ever’. “Sri Lanka may be ‘post-war’, but it will never be ‘post-conflict’ until all its people are free to build a credible narrative of its past and to play meaningful roles in their own governance, ” says Alan Keenan, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst on Sri Lanka.

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=34198

Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: Harder than Ever

RECOMMENDATIONS

To the Government of Sri Lanka:

1. Immediately revisit policies that are exacerbating minority grievances:

a) end the state of emergency and revise anti-terrorism legislation to comply with international law;

b) make available to family members the names and locations of all individuals detained for suspected involvement in the LTTE;

c) issue accurate death certificates or declarations of absence for those who were killed or went missing in the conflict, without compromising the rights of family members to seek further information or remedies;

d) allow public and open mourning of the deceased, including the establishment of memorials, and assist in the recovery of human remains;

e) permit all displaced persons and returnees full freedom of movement and assembly, expedite the opening of remaining restricted areas in the north and empower local officials and civil society actors to mediate land disputes in a transparent, credible process;

f) reduce restrictions on and improve access for humanitarian and civil society actors, allowing them to increase levels of assistance, including in areas such as psycho-social support and gender-based violence, and determine priorities with input from local communities;

g) return land, houses, vehicles and other property seized by the military and implement a single scheme for compensating victims of all ethnic groups with equal payments and a transparent process; and

h) remove the military from civilian activities, reduce its security role and take immediate action to end all harassment of and attacks on Tamil women by military personnel.

2. Deliver on promises to provider greater autonomy for the north and east:

a) expedite elections for the Northern Provincial Council;

b) decentralise decision-making on economic development, giving local government leaders control over resources and projects; and

c) commit publicly to the goal of reaching a political settlement on devolution in talks with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which should be followed by a process that includes independent representatives of Muslims in the north and east to finalise a settlement acceptable to all communities in those regions.

3. Create the conditions needed to pursue meaningful reconciliation among all ethnic communities:

a) acknowledge that the war with the LTTE was not only a war against a ruthless terrorist organisation but also part of a larger ethnic conflict driven by grievances and prejudices of all communities;

b) recognise that a broad, inclusive national reconciliation process, including a truth commission to examine the injustices suffered by all communities, will be needed to sustain peace;

c) end all attacks on and threats against journalists and civil society actors, and stop using state media resources to perpetuate false narratives of the past and present;

d) reverse the consolidation of power in the presidency and military, including by proposing legislation to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment to the constitution and restore constitutional limits on the president’s term in office and power over the attorney general and judiciary, as well as commissions on human rights, police, elections, corruption, finance and public service; and by removing from military control all oversight of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and decision-making on economic development;

e) break with Sri Lanka’s long history of impunity, including by making public the reports of all presidential commissions of inquiry into human rights abuses, especially those established by President Rajapaksa, and by implementing credible accountability processes for past and present abuses; and

f) request that the LLRC complete its report as soon as possible and release it to the public.

To Sri Lanka’s International Partners, including India, Japan, the U.S., UK, EU and UN:

4. Encourage the conditions needed for longer-term reconciliation and to reduce the risk of a return to violence:

a) endorse and urge swift implementation of the recommendations of the UN Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka (see Appendix B), including the establishment of a complementary international inquiry into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity (see Recommendations 5a and b);

b) evaluate all aid and engagement in light of the risks of a return to conflict and insist on the highest levels of transparency, external monitoring and non-discriminatory community participation in setting priorities;

c) highlight consistently the issues that affect all communities, including growing authoritarianism, militarisation, emergency laws, weak rule of law, impunity, corruption and repression of dissent;

d) review military-military ties and suspend assistance until there is a credible investigation of the alleged violations of international humanitarian and human rights law identified by the UN panel of experts; and

e) convene a high-level meeting of donors and other development partners, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, before the end of 2011 to agree upon and ratify with the government a strong set of principles for the delivery and monitoring of assistance; those principles should incorporate a) to d) above and emphasise the need for the government to commit its own funds to benefit its war-affected populations; in advance of the meeting, the government should be required to propose an assistance strategy and timeline for demilitarisation and return to civilian administration in the north and east.

To the UN and Member States:

5. Support processes to establish accurate accountings of past and present violations of international law:

a) work to establish an international inquiry – pursuant to any lawful authority including the Secretary-General’s or the UN Human Rights Council’s – into the credible allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity by both the LTTE and government forces, unless the government demonstrates convincingly by the end of 2011 that it is willing and able to hold accountable those responsible for alleged crimes;

b) ensure that the international inquiry is complementary to any credible domestic accountability mechanism that may emerge by, for example: focusing sequentially on certain incidents or categories of crimes and shifting to the next set of incidents or crimes only when the inquiry is complete or parallel domestic processes with respect to those incidents or crimes are proven to meet international standards; the international inquiry could start with alleged attacks on hospitals and humanitarian operations by government forces and child recruitment and suicide attacks by the LTTE;

c) use all available mechanisms – including the involvement of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Council, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and UN special rapporteurs or representatives on extrajudicial executions, torture, violence against women, the protection of human rights while countering terrorism, the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), and children and armed conflict – to press the government to end impunity, improve the situation for current and former IDPs and detainees and open up access for humanitarian and development actors;

d) follow through on commitments to review UN conduct during the war, as recommended by the panel of experts; but separately from any review immediately revisit the UN’s failed policy in Sri Lanka of holding back on public criticism to maintain humanitarian access; and

e) review Sri Lanka’s contributions to UN peacekeeping operations and refrain from accepting the participation of its troops until there is a credible investigation of the allegations against the military in the UN panel of experts report.

To Tamil Diaspora Groups:

6. Help create the conditions needed to pursue meaningful reconciliation among all ethnic communities:

a) renounce the LTTE’s brutality against Sinhalese, Muslims and Tamils and repression of dissent within the Tamil community;

b) acknowledge that the LTTE shares responsibility for the suffering and massive loss of Tamil life in the north in the final stages of the conflict; and

c) support and cooperate with the investigation and prosecution of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by the LTTE throughout the conflict.

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka/209-reconciliation-in-sri-lanka-harder-than-ever.aspx

Edited July 18, 201114 yr by akootha

இந்த அறிக்கையில் எல்லாதரப்புக்களுக்கும் அறிவுரை வழங்கப்படுள்ளது. ஆனால் தமிழர் தரப்பு என்ற ரீதியில் இங்கு எடுக்கப்பட்டது புலம்பெயர் சமூகம். அதிலும் அவர்கள் விடுதலைப்புலிகள் பற்றிய விசாரணைகளுக்கு ஒத்துழைக்க வேண்டும்;ஒரு அரசியல் தீர்வுக்கு ஒத்துழைப்பு வழங்கவேண்டும்

என கேட்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த வேண்டுகோள் ஆறாவதாகவும் இறுதியாகவும் விடப்பட்டுள்ளது.

Edited July 18, 201114 yr by akootha

இந்த அறிக்கையில் எல்லாதரப்புக்களுக்கும் அறிவுரை வழங்கப்படுள்ளது. ஆனால் தமிழர் தரப்பு என்ற ரீதியில் இங்கு எடுக்கப்பட்டது புலம்பெயர் சமூகம். அதிலும் அவர்கள் விடுதலைப்புலிகள் பற்றிய விசாரணைகளுக்கு ஒத்துழைக்க வேண்டும்;ஒரு அரசியல் தீர்வுக்கு ஒத்துழைப்பு வழங்கவேண்டும்

என கேட்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த வேண்டுகோள் ஆறாவதாகவும் இறுதியாகவும் விடப்பட்டுள்ளது

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விடுதலைப்புலிகள் பற்றிய சர்வதேச விசாரணைக்கு முகம் கொடுப்பதற்கு புலம் பெயர் வாழ் மக்கள் எப்போதும் தயாராகவே உள்ளதாக கருதுகிறேன். அதே போல் போர்க்குற்ற விசாரணையை சிறிலங்கா அரசுக்கு எதிராக விசாரிப்பதற்கு முழு நெருக்கடியையும் இந்த நெருக்கடிகள் அமைப்புக்கொடுக்கும் பக்குவத்தில் இருக்கின்றதா என்பதே தற்போதய கேள்வி.