Sri Lanka's delegation to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva due to begin Monday, assured the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, that "we [Sri Lanka] have dealt with accountability isses".
Speaking to reporters afterwards, Sri Lanka's irrigation minister, Nimal Siripala de Silva, said when Pillay has raises the issue of war crimes and the UN expert panel report, they responsed promptly.
“We corrected her immediately. We have dealt with accountability issues.”
“We made that point during the discussion. Whatever it is, the people of Sri Lanka should approve it. We categorically told her that the people of Sri Lanka watched how Osama Bin Laden was killed. Yet, nobody raised any human rights issue with regard to Bin Laden’s murder,”
Sri Lanka's foreign minister, GL Peiris added,
“I asked Ms. Pillay who is also a former judge how anyone can trust the findings of such a panel. She said that the panel was not allowed to do investigations. Then I asked again how the report prepared without investigations could be accepted.”
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