{"id":115413,"date":"2013-11-21T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=115413"},"modified":"2013-11-25T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:00:44","slug":"sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: The Time For An International Investigation Is Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\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_35781\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tissa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35781\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-35781\" alt=\"J.S. Tissainayagam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tissa-120x150.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J.S. Tissainayagam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>British Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=David+Cameron&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">David Cameron<\/span><\/a>\u2019s presence at last week\u2019s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)\u00a0facilitated coverage that might not have been possible otherwise for media organisations. But if the human rights and war crimes issues highlighted by the international media are to be redressed and Commonwealth values and international law upheld, the band-aid solution proposed by the Sri Lanka government and aided by the Commonwealth Secretariat has to be dismissed. Instead, what is required is implementing an international investigation into war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron\u2019s answer to his critics demanding his boycott of CHOGM was that he wanted to shine a light on human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. By taking the British media with him to Jaffna and adopting the position that Sri Lanka needed to have an independent domestic inquiry into war crimes in order to avoid international censure, he assumed a controversial roleat the centre of the drama, which was a godsend to the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/asiancorrespondent.com\/116154\/sri-lanka-chogm-investigation\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":35781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lanka: The Time For An International Investigation Is Now - 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-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sri Lanka: The Time For An International Investigation Is Now - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-11-20T21:00:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-11-25T05:00:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/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-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/\",\"name\":\"Sri Lanka: The Time For An International Investigation Is Now - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tissa.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-11-20T21:00:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-11-25T05:00:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-the-time-for-an-international-investigation-is-now\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tissa.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tissa.jpg\",\"width\":\"120\",\"height\":\"154\",\"caption\":\"J.S. 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