Speaking at the on-going United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva, the Sri Lankan delegation highlighted the importance of mandatory regulations that ensured that fund transfers of International Non-governmental Organisations (NGO’s) and Non-profit Organisations (NPO), should be monitored to prevent the financing of terrorism, money laundering or other related trans-national crimes.
The Sri Lankan delegate went on to accuse overseas civil society organisations and charities of funding the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the war.
The delegation also went on to outline that law enforcement authorities retained the right to disperse all peaceful demonstrations that lead to a disturbance in ‘public tranquillity’.