Comments on: Human Rights Day, Transitional Justice and the Reform Agenda in Sri Lanka: What Next? https://groundviews.org/2016/12/10/human-rights-day-transitional-justice-and-the-reform-agenda-in-sri-lanka-what-next/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=human-rights-day-transitional-justice-and-the-reform-agenda-in-sri-lanka-what-next Journalism for Citizens Tue, 13 Dec 2016 06:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: puniselva https://groundviews.org/2016/12/10/human-rights-day-transitional-justice-and-the-reform-agenda-in-sri-lanka-what-next/#comment-61113 Tue, 13 Dec 2016 06:53:00 +0000 http://groundviews.org/?p=20903#comment-61113 ”…………. ……………………..realize a new Sri Lanka” ?
Governments of the last 60yrs have been working to implement the 1956 election manufesto by different words and actions and captured aptly:
‘’This new style of diplomacy emphasized form over function. SriLanka was able to postpone donor sanction by stringing critics along from one presidential order to the next, creating Commissions of Inquiry and temporary agencies, none of which delivered legal accountability for grave violations or real reform of systems. In the meantime, Sri Lanka’s human rights record remained among the worst in the world’’
TWENTY YEARS OF MAKE-BELIEVE: SRI LANKA’S COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY, Amnesty International, June 2009

The last two years have been preparing a monumental addition, ”we have been busy with constitutional reforms” for March 2017 at UNHRC.

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