{"id":120673,"date":"2014-02-28T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=120673"},"modified":"2014-03-08T04:40:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T23:10:24","slug":"lanka-made-no-significant-progress-on-reconciliation-or-accountability-in-2013-biswal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/lanka-made-no-significant-progress-on-reconciliation-or-accountability-in-2013-biswal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanka Made No Significant Progress On Reconciliation Or Accountability In 2013: Biswal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka did not make significant progress on reconciliation or justice and accountability for alleged war crimes in 2013, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Nisha+Biswal&amp;x=13&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nisha Biswal<\/span><\/a> tweeted a short while ago, even as Washington released its world human rights report for the year 2013 at the US State Department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-116223 alignright\" alt=\"Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Nisha-Desai-Biswal-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State John Kerry, who officially released the 2013 Human Rights Reports with country specific assessments, also tweeted that the &#8220;US supports UNHRC Sri Lanka resolution at the March session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governments that protect human rights and are accountable to their citizens are more secure, bolster international peace and security, and enjoy shared prosperity with stable democratic countries around the world. Countries that fail to uphold human rights can face economic deprivation and international isolation,&#8221; Kerry said in the preface to the launch of the latest report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SriLanka&amp;src=hash\">#SriLanka<\/a> did not make significant progress on reconciliation or on justice &amp; accountability for alleged war crimes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23HumanRights&amp;src=hash\">#HumanRights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nisha Biswal (@NishaBiswal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NishaBiswal\/statuses\/439080816510255104\">February 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":116223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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