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Sri Lankan Tamil party seeks UN probe into deaths
Sunday March 31, 2013 06:37:40 PM,
IANS
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Colombo: A Sri
Lankan Tamil political party said Sunday that it will continue to
push for a UN mechanism to investigate alleged human rights abuses
in the island nation.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) statement comes within days
after one of their political gatherings came under a mob attack in
the northern town of Killinochchi which was at one time the hub of
the Tamil Tigers.
"Accountability is mostly important for Tamils. During and soon
after the war hundreds of Tamils went missing. After the war many
had surrendered to the army but their whereabouts is not known
now. The parents of these people want answers," TNA MP Suresh
Premachandran said.
He recalled that there erre conflicting reports on the number of
civilians killed during Sri Lanka's 30-year civil war, with some
in the government placing it at 5,000-7,000 and others placing it
around 40,000-70,000.
Wanni Security Forces Commander Major General Boniface Perera said
recently that several people were protesting against the
government and the army over the missing people and demanding
information about them.
He, however, said such protests were pointless, as the army did
not know the whereabouts of those people said to have been
missing.
Meanwhile, at least 13 people were injured when a mob attacked a
political gathering of the TNA in northern Sri Lanka last week.
The attack happened during a meeting held at the house of a TNA
MP, S. Sritharan.
"At least four party MPs were attending the discussion... A group
of people came carrying the national flag in one hand and stones
and clubs in the other and attacked us," Suresh Premachandran
said.
He said while 13 people were injured, the MPs escaped unhurt. One
attacker was handed over to police.
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