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Sri Lankans protest against Geneva resolution
Tuesday March 20, 2012 07:38:35 PM,
IANS
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Colombo: Some 2,000
Sri Lankans marched to the British High Commission here Tuesday to
condemn Western countries for a resolution that accuses Colombo of
committing "war crimes".
The noisy protesters urged Britain not to support the US-sponsored
resolution seeking to probe into human rights violations when the
military crushed the Tamil Tigers in 2009, Xinhua reported.
The UN Human Rights Council is to vote on the resolution also
co-sponsored by France, Norway, Nigeria and Cameroon.
Over the last two weeks, street protests have continued in
Colombo, pitting government supporters and Buddhist monks mostly
against Western diplomatic missions including those of Germany,
France and the US.
The Sri Lankan government has assigned a large team to Geneva to
lobby against the resolution and has is banking on friendly
countries to defeat it.
On Monday, India announced it intended to back the resolution.
The resolution asks Sri Lanka to set a time frame for implementing
the recommendations of its war commission and to conduct an
independent probe into alleged war crimes.
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