Int'l community should ensure credible & impartial inquiry

Charging India with being a "mere camp follower" on UNHRC resolution adopted at Geneva on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, CPI today said the global community has to ensure a credible inquiry into it.
Moreover, Sri Lanka should also ensure that a judicial mechanism is set up to inquire into alleged human rights violations. Such a mechanism should have proportionate representation, particularly judges and lawyers from the Tamil community, CPI National Secretary D Raja told reporters here.
Apart from the impartial probe, Sri Lanka should find a political solution to the problems of Tamils there.
The island government should ensue equal status, withdrawal of military from areas of Tamil population, return of ancestral land allegedly occupied by Sri Lankan military personnel and release of hundreds of Tamils lodged in prisons, Raja said.

On the resolution adopted at Geneva yesterday, he said the judicial process, as suggested by the resolution, should also have participation of Commonwealth and other foreign judges and involvement of judges with integrity and impartiality.
He charged the NDA government with being a mere "camp follower" like one among other countries which supported the resolution and not having initiated any steps to find a solution to the long pending problem.

Asked if CPI welcomed the resolution, Raja said: "It is not a question of welcoming it. People want a credible and impartial inquiry into human right violations and war crimes."

Raja charged the Modi government with refusing to recognise the unanimous resolution passed by Tamil Nadu Assembly with regard to Sri Lanka's problem.
The UN Human Rights Council had yesterday unanimously recommended a credible probe involving foreign judges and prosecutors into the alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka's battle against the LTTE, a resolution which was surprisingly co-sponsored by Colombo despite its strong reservations.
The 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council at the 30th session here had approved by consensus a crucial resolution led by US and UK, and backed by Sri Lanka itself, a move hailed by international advocacy groups.