The leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R Sampanthan, said those sceptical of a judicial process in Sri Lanka could not be blamed due to previous negative experiences.
Referring to the consensus resolution due to be adopted by the UN Human Rights Council today which calls for a Sri Lankan court with the participation of "Commonwealth and other foreign judges, defence lawyers, and authorized prosecutors and investigators", Mr Sampanthan said in an interview to The Hindu that such inclusion would give it a “much greater degree of credibility”.
“You can’t blame the people who are sceptical because the previous experiences were quite bad," he added.
“This is perhaps the best possible resolution that could have been achieved at the UNHRC on the basis of a consensus," he said.
Asked by the paper if he was confident that the Sri Lankan government would implement the resolution in full, Mr Sampanthan said that as the it was “a resolution based on consensus" that “honest implementation will become inevitable".
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His comments come as the Sri Lankan prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe told an audience in Colombo on Tuesday that foreign judges and lawyers involved in the process "will have to work in accordance with the Sri Lanka's law and hierarchies". See more here.
Referring to the consensus resolution due to be adopted by the UN Human Rights Council today which calls for a Sri Lankan court with the participation of "Commonwealth and other foreign judges, defence lawyers, and authorized prosecutors and investigators", Mr Sampanthan said in an interview to The Hindu that such inclusion would give it a “much greater degree of credibility”.
“You can’t blame the people who are sceptical because the previous experiences were quite bad," he added.
“This is perhaps the best possible resolution that could have been achieved at the UNHRC on the basis of a consensus," he said.
Asked by the paper if he was confident that the Sri Lankan government would implement the resolution in full, Mr Sampanthan said that as the it was “a resolution based on consensus" that “honest implementation will become inevitable".
See more here.
His comments come as the Sri Lankan prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe told an audience in Colombo on Tuesday that foreign judges and lawyers involved in the process "will have to work in accordance with the Sri Lanka's law and hierarchies". See more here.