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The UK's All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPGT) urged member states of the UN Human Rights Council to ensure justice for the mass atrocities committed against the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
Attending the Council's 28th session, currently taking place in Geneva, the chair of the APPGT, Lee Scott, met with member states along side Tamil diaspora groups, including the British Tamils Forum, the Canadian Tamil Congress and the US Tamil Political Action Council.
Mr Scott expressed the Tamil people's deep disappointment that the findings of the international inquiry had been deferred till September, and urged that justice must be delivered to the victims, who had waited long enough.
Mr Scott, who is the Conservative party MP for Ilford North, also met the Northern Provincial Councillor, M K Shivajilingham, who had recently been key to passing a resolution at the NPC, calling for an international inquiry into the genocide of the Tamil people.
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