Sri Lanka Muslims rally to protest Western intervention in country’s
affairs
Sunday March 18, 2012 11:00:59 PM,
IINA
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Colombo (Sri Lanka): The Muslim community of Sri Lanka has come strongly
to voice their opposition to a resolution submitted by the United
States to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Muslims in the country Friday held prayers in mosques throughout
the country to invoke blessings to strengthen the country to
defeat western powers and held demonstrations after weekly Jumma
prayers to protest the West’s support to pro-LTTE movements.
The Muslims, although a minority of about 8 percent of Sri Lanka’s
population have been vociferous against the US-sponsored
resolution against Sri Lanka.
Thousands of Muslims Thursday participated in a demonstration
organized by the National Organization for Protecting the Country
to hand over a memorandum to several western embassies including
those of United States, Britain and Germany.
The memorandum condemned US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka
and called for the UNHRC to abandon the resolution asking for the
Western countries to “desist from interfering in Sri Lanka’s
internal affairs”.
The Sri Lanka Muslim Brotherhood and several other Muslim groups
asked the Arab and African nations to support Sri Lanka to defeat
the resolution and called the western powers to leave Sri Lanka
alone.
The resolution to be debated next week calls for the Sri Lankan
government to expeditiously implement the recommendations made by
the domestic body, Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC),
in its report released in November last year and investigate the
war crime allegations which according to the US are not adequately
addressed in the LLRC report.
Sri Lanka has vehemently objected to a resolution submitted by the
US to the UN Human Rights Council calling the resolution as an
impediment to the reconciliation in the country.
Political analysts are of agreement with the government that the
resolution is damaging to the reconciliation process. They say the
resolution is polarizing the country as evident by the recent
protests where the Muslim community has joined with the majority
Sinhalese calling the member states to help Sri Lanka to defeat
the resolution while the major Tamil Party is requesting the UNHRC
to pass the resolution.
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