{"id":9578,"date":"2013-10-28T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2013-11-14T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T12:04:17","slug":"human-rights-report-dismissed-by-sri-lankan-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/2013\/10\/human-rights-report-dismissed-by-sri-lankan-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights report dismissed by Sri Lankan government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Sri Lankan government has rejected a UN Human Rights report, which cites &#8220;continuing reports of extrajudicial killings, abductions and enforced disappearance&#8221;.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Professor G. L. Peiris says the UN Human Rights report was &#8220;not the product of an open mind&#8221;.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The report was launched by Navi Pillay, UN Commissioner for Human Rights, after a week-long visit to the country. She told reporters that, although she was allowed to go wherever she wanted, Sri Lankans who spoke to her were intimidated by the country&#8217;s security forces. But Peiris conducted a point-by-point rebuttal of her report, saying that it was biased with no empirical evidence to back its accusations.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;What we find disturbing is the tone and substance of her report, the lack of fairness and balance,&#8221; a government statement said.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The report, mandated by the Geneva Resolution in March, says that while Sri Lanka&#8217;s government has made &#8220;significant progress in rebuilding infrastructure&#8221;, considerable work must be made &#8220;in the areas of justice, reconciliation and resumption of livelihoods&#8221; of internally displaced persons.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sri Lankan government has rejected a UN Human Rights report, which cites &#8220;continuing reports of extrajudicial killings, abductions and enforced disappearance&#8221;.\u00a0 Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Professor G. L. Peiris says the UN Human Rights report was &#8220;not the product of an open mind&#8221;.\u00a0 The report was launched by Navi Pillay, UN Commissioner for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161,103,42,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.global-briefing.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}