The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) stressed to the visiting UN Special Rapporteur for Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence, Pablo de Greiff that they had no faith in the Sri Lankan government's internal investigation into war crimes and human rights violations.

A delegation of the TNA led by R Sampanthan and including MPs Suresh Premachandran, Selvam Adaikalanathan and M A Sumanthiran, met with Mr Greiff in Colombo on Thursday.

“We do not have faith in the internal investigation due to be launched by the [Sri Lankan] government into war crimes and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka," the TNA delegation told Mr Grieff, reported the Jaffna based newspaper, Uthayan.

“We are expecting the UN investigation report this coming September,” the TNA said, adding that "war criminals should be punished based on the UN report."

“The new government, which came to power led by the president Maithripala Sirisena, has promised to resolve all the problems of the Tamil people. However, the new government is showing a delay in making these promises into actions."

"Therefore, this government should take action to deliver an immediate solution to the long standing ethnic conflict and urgent problems of the [Tamil] people including resettlement in North and East, demilitarisation, the release of Tamil political prisoners and the issue of disappearances."

"For this, the UN pressure must continue," the TNA delegation stressed to the Special Rapporteur.
 
“UN resolutions on Sri Lanka play crucial role to make Tamil issues be heard in the international arena.”
 
“Therefore, in addition to the UN delivering justice for the sufferings faced by Tamils in Sri Lanka, it should deliver a permanent political solution."