Rule of Law or Law of the Ruler?: India’s Stand on Sri Lanka

J Jeganaathan
Research Officer, Regional Security Programme, IPCS
email: chamujegan@gmail.com

In a move to sensitize the Indian Government about the Sri Lankan Tamil issue, and to satiate the expectations of an electorate which gave an absolute mandate to her party, AIADMK Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa unanimously adopted a special resolution seeking punitive actions against the Sri Lankan government for its alleged war crimes during its war with the LTTE. The resolution demands economic sanctions against the government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and indicts all those who perpetuated such crimes, including President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as ‘war criminals’, as per the findings of the UN panel report on accountability in Sri Lanka.   more...