After bemoaning the lack of time and space earlier this year in Geneva, the government of Sri Lanka has been working overtime it seems.
During Mahinda Rajapaksa's monthly sermon with the island's newspaper editors, the president proclaimed that over 50% of the recommendations made by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) had been implemented.
This has nothing to do with the resolution adopted by the UNHRC earlier this year he insisted.
Preempting the inevitable queries regarding what exactly the Sri Lankan government means by 'implementation' given the on-going militarisation, land grab, detention without charge, abductions, torture, and the list goes on.., the president said to the editors gathered before him: "Unfortunately what we have done is not conveyed to the world."
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