Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Amnesty criticises Lord Rogan on Sri Lankan President 'fawning over a regime with blood on its hands'

Amnesty International has described comments by Lord Dennis Rogan, praising the Sri Lankan government of President Rajapaksa after a visit to the country, as "fawning" over "a regime with blood on its hands".

Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland programme director, said:

“Lord Rogan’s fawning comments which describe Sri Lanka as a country at ‘harmony’ where ‘peace has descended’ are grossly at odds with the findings of Amnesty International and the United Nations.

“President Rajapaksa, Lord Rogan’s host, is the very same President who presided over the final bloody months of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict in 2009, when as many as 40,000 civilians were killed - corralled into alleged ‘no fire zones’ on beaches in the North of the country only to be brutally shelled, with hospitals deliberately targeted.

“Rajapaksa has aggressively resisted any sort of independent inquiry into those events and has moved to consolidate his power, whilst silencing opposition. Lord Rogan’s misplaced praise does a disservice to the Sri Lankans living under that government.
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