Sri Lanka: UN Panel Report –Rajapaksa Cornered but Defiant - Making a Mockery of the UN - Part II

23-April-2011

 Sri Lanka: UN Panel Report –Rajapaksa Cornered but Defiant - Making a Mockery of the UN - Part II

Guest Column:  Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah ( May be read with paper No. 4434 in this site)Since day one the Rajapaksa regime has successfully manipulated the whole UN establishment including its Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, his chief of staff Nambiar and the UN Human Rights Council, and has in the process not only made a mockery of the UN system but made Ban him self look weak and not in control.

The regime has used every tactic in the book before, during and after its brutal war with the LTTE to cleverly out-maneuver the UN and twist Ban round its fingers. All this at a high cost amounting to colossal loss of lives; untold human suffering; obstruction of justice including distortion of the truth. The UN Panel of Expert’s Report has turned out to be an expose of the Rajapaksa regime’s conduct of the war and the aftermath. Although cornered, the Rajapaksa                  Full Story>>>