The Tamil National Alliance MP for Batticaloa, P Ariyanethiran, welcomed the resolution passed by the Northern Provincial Council on Tuesday, which called on the UN to investigate charges of genocide and prosecute those responsible at the International Criminal Court.
“Our position is the same as the NPC. We welcome the resolution and wish to add to the call for a UN probe into genocide and prosecutions of those responsible,” the MP, who is based in the Eastern Province, told the Tamil Guardian over the phone.
Mr Ariyenethiran echoed the NPC’s demand for an international investigation, regardless of whether the government conducts its own inquiry, saying that a domestic inquiry is designed to “cover up” the mass atrocities committed by the government.
“The international inquiry needs to be seen through to the end. No one can ask us to drop our demand for that,” he said.
“The inquiry by the government can run concurrently to the international probe, but we do not have faith in a domestic mechanism and will not accept it.”