{"id":112504,"date":"2013-10-31T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T04:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=112504"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T09:00:59","slug":"sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Commonwealth Summit And The International Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=J.+S.+Tissainayagam&amp;x=15&amp;y=5\">J. S. Tissainayagam<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38677\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/india-gives-sri-lanka-lessons-in-realpolitik\/tissa-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38677\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-38677\" title=\"Tissa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J.S. Tissainayagam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the run up to the Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka there is burgeoning media attention on the human rights abuses and suspected war crimes the host nation has tried to conceal. Many hope the attention will keep Sri Lanka accountable and also facilitate progress on human rights and good governance. While media scrutiny during the Summit is indeed important, if the regime in Colombo is to be made accountable for its crimes it is vital that the vigilance continues.<\/p>\n<p>Jurists have pronounced Sri Lanka has violated principles that the 54-member group of former British colonies hold sacrosanct by undermining human rights and the rule of law. This means the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo will ring a death knell for the organisation\u2019s legitimacy. Further, Sri Lanka, by assuming leadership of the body for the next two years, will legitimise violent and authoritarian principles of governance in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asiancorrespondent.com\/115110\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":38677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lanka\u2019s Commonwealth Summit And The International Media - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Commonwealth Summit And The International Media - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-10-31T04:15:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-11-04T09:00:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"120\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"154\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/\",\"name\":\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Commonwealth Summit And The International Media - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-10-31T04:15:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-11-04T09:00:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankas-commonwealth-summit-and-the-international-media\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\",\"width\":\"120\",\"height\":\"154\",\"caption\":\"J.S. 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