The draft UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka, tabled at the Council last Monday, was "deeply dismaying", said the Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) in a statement released yesterday.
Criticising the resolution's failure to ensure a meaningful international inquiry, immediate relief from the on-going oppression faced by the Tamil people, and a meaningful political solution to the ethnic conflict, the TNPF called on fellow Tamils in the diaspora and on Tamils in Tamil Nadu, to work towards pushing for a stronger resolution.
Stressing that the resolution should call for an independent, international investigation into the crime of genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka, the TNPF said,
"We urge that the resolution led by US with the support of other western countries at the UNHRC, foregrounds the calls of the Tamil people, and bring a permanent end to human rights abuses, violations, and genocide inflicted on the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan state."
See here for full statement in Tamil.
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