Paranagama probe mechanism a possible solution — Desmond De Silva

The Paranagama Report destroyed the ‘myth’ of the 40,000 civilians killed in the final months and went onto further destroy the allegation of genocide against the government of Sri Lanka. The Report even referred to a Judgment of a Dutch Domestic Court which absolved the Sri Lankan government from being characterized as a “racist regime” and went on to deal with the principles that immerged in the International Court of Justice in the case of Croatia vs Serbiaas recently as 2015. The application of the principles that emerged from that case could in no way satisfy the pro-LTTE accusations of genocide.

by Manjula Fernando

Courtesy: The Sunday Observer, Colombo

( February 14, 2016, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sir Desmond de Silva, Queen’s Counsel of the United Kingdom, is an eminent British jurist who later had a career in international legal activism, serving on various international bodies dealing with critical judicial and legal issues pertaining to international crisis situations and country hot spots. He has been previously picked by the UN to produce a report on international law violations and was Chief Prosecutor of a UN-sponsored international criminal tribunal. His e-mail based interview with the Sunday Observer last week was his first after the Paranagama Report was published. In it, he responds to the allegations against him and the implications of the Paranagama Commission Report in the light of subsequent developments, especially in the aftermath of the UN Human Rights Council resolution in Sri Lanka.

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