Posted on February 22nd, 2021
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island
UK hindered war crimes investigation – Naseby tells Bachelet
Leader of Sri Lanka Core Group, the UK, has suppressed official documents that could have helped the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to establish the truth pertaining to war crimes allegations, including the number of deaths on the Vanni east front in 2009, Lord Naseby has said in a letter addressed to Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Lord Naseby has raised the issue in his capacity as the President of the All Party British-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Group. The Conservative politician was responding to the controversial ‘Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka’ that recommended punitive measures against Sri Lanka, ahead of the 46th sessions of the UNHRC due to commence today (22).
CHICAGO: A week after five Americans were injured and a foreign contractor working for the US was killed during a rocket attack on a military base near Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq, Washington has yet to decide how to respond to the escalation of violence.
In the meantime there have been two additional attacks on US-linked targets in country: at least four missiles hit Balad Air Base, north of Baghdad on Feb. 20, leaving one person wounded, and on Monday two rockets landed in the Green Zone near the US embassy in Baghdad. There were no reports of casualties in the latest attack.
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Rotary’s Vocational Service Month was commemorated by Rotary PanColombo on 26th January 2021 at hotel Movenpick, Colombo. The meeting was virtually joined by the Rotary Club of Nuwara-Eliya and the Rotary Club of Madras Mid Town. Vocational Service is the essence of Rotary and serves as the foundation from which Rotarians serve their communities around […]
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Saturday ordered officials with decision-making powers to attend District and Regional Development Committee meetings without fail. Rajapaksa said this during a “Discussion with the Village” programme at the Nelumwewa Community Hall in the Paligama Grama Niladhari Division of the Karuwalagaswewa Divisional Secretariat, Puttalam District. The President said he had realised that […]