Sri Lanka: Crisis Of Credibility – Analysis

Written by: SATP April 11, 2011

x

By Srideep Biswas
On the model of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, at the end of three decades of civil war, appointed a Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) on May 15, 2010, to examine the events covering the period between February 21, 2002, and May 19, 2009, and their attendant concerns and issues, and to recommend measures to ensure that there would be no recurrence of such strife.
The mandate of the eight member Commission, headed by former Attorney General C. R. De Silva as Chairman, was to inquire and report on the following matters over the period defined:

• The facts and circumstances which led to the failure of the cease-fire agreement operationalized on February 21, 2002, and the sequence of events that followed thereafter, up May 19, 2009;

• Whether any person, group or institution directly or indirectly bore responsibility in this regard;

• The lessons that could be learnt from those events and their attendant concerns, in order to ensure that there would be no recurrence.

• The methodology whereby restitution to any person affected by those events or their dependants or their heirs, can be affected;

• The institutional administrative and legislative measured which was needed in order to prevent any recurrence of such concerns in the future, and to promote further national unity and reconciliation among all communities, and to make any such other recommendations with reference to any of the matters that have been inquired into under the terms of the Warrant.

                Read More>>>

   Sri Lanka