report in The Island, June 19, 2023The Reconciliation Commission (TRC) draft is to be shared with the diplomatic community and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) by next month. Thereafter, it will be submitted to Parliament for consideration. Minister of Justice Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has said that once the TRC draft receives parliamentary approval, it will be implemented by December 2023. This development comes in anticipation of the 53rd regular sessions of the United Nations Human…
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by Shihar Aneez in Economy Next online, June 2, 2023A new draft on Sri Lanka’s Truth Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has failed to meet minimum expectations in addressing the concerns of ethnic minority Tamils who have lost their loved ones in what they allege as forced disappeared, in the final stage of the war, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) legislator M A Sumanthiran said. Thousands of people, mostly Tamils in Sri Lanka’s north and east, went…
by Sahan Tennekoon in The Morning, May 31, 2023The Cabinet of Ministers, on Monday (29), granted its approval to the joint proposal submitted by Minister of Justice, Prisons Affairs, and Constitutional Reforms President’s Counsel (PC) Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe and Minister of Foreign Affairs M.U.M. Ali Sabry PC for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation mechanism in Sri Lanka, taking into account the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa. Speaking…
On February 13, Mario Otero, US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Affairs, arrived in Kathmandu for a round of talks. And on the same day the Nepali police forced Chushi Gangdruk to abruptly end its elections to the dismay of local Tibetan refugees. By design or accident, the police action provided an opportunity to the American official to know and hear first hand the problems of the Tibetan refugees, who continue to stream into the Himalayan…