The US Ambassador on War Crimes and head of the Office of Global Criminal Justice at the US State Department, Stephen J Rapp, who is currently touring Sri Lanka, will visit the North-East on 8th January, to meet Northern Provincial Chief Minister CV Wigneswaran and other Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and civil society activists, reports the Daily Mail.
Rapp has, for the past two years, visited the island to assess the justice, accountability and reconciliation situation ahead of the United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in March, where the United States have led on two resolutions addressing such issues.
Rapp has, for the past two years, visited the island to assess the justice, accountability and reconciliation situation ahead of the United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in March, where the United States have led on two resolutions addressing such issues.