No Letup On UN Probe

By Easwaran Rutnam-Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Jayantha Dhanapala, Senior Advisor on Foreign Affairs to President
Maithripala Sirisena and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

The swearing in of a new Government has not released the pressure on Sri Lanka for a UN led investigation over the war, with human rights groups insisting that it is the only way forward.

The Government had last week dispatched Jayantha Dhanapala, Senior Advisor on Foreign Affairs to President Maithripala Sirisena, to meet the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein in Geneva, and briefed him on the policies of the newly elected Government.

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