{"id":122552,"date":"2014-04-01T04:50:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=122552"},"modified":"2014-04-08T02:31:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T21:01:38","slug":"looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Ahead: Honorary Doctor Rajapaksa&#8217;s War Crime Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=S.+Ratnajeevan+H.+Hoole&amp;x=11&amp;y=7\">S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62714\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62714\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-62714\" alt=\"Prof S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A resolution has been passed at long last at the UN Human Rights Council on March 27, 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/un-mandates-war-crimes-probe-in-sri-lanka-stronger\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">calling for<\/span><\/a> war-crimes investigations in Sri Lanka. As David Cameron the Prime Minister of the UK has noted, this is a victory for the people of Sri Lanka who need to know the truth. This would not have been possible without the active support of Canada, the US and the UK, and the UN Human Rights Commissioner Navaneetham Pillai as well as of Amnesty International, the International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch and many organizations which never let\u00a0the world forget the large scale murder in Sri Lanka in January to May 2009.<\/p>\n<p>First, before I speak, just a reminder on signing the important petitions from AI before you go. These are on human rights activists at risk, the disappeared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Prageeth+Ekneliyagoda&amp;x=7&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prageeth Eknaligoda<\/span><\/a>, the five bright Tamil students from Trincomalee murdered by Sri Lankan forces between high school and college, and a more general one on Prevention of Terrorism Act detainees long after the war. As someone supported and helped by AI, I tell you that these petitions help. So please do sign before you go.<\/p>\n<p>As a speaker I can claim a kind of neutrality. In 2006 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=LTTE&amp;x=7&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tamil Tigers<\/span><\/a> came after me and I had to flee my homeland. In 2011 again, I had to flee when the government issued an open warrant for my arrest because I wrote of the election rigging that I was witness to. I aver a firm opposition to anyone violating human rights, be it the government or the Tamil Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>*The speech made on last night (March 31, 2014) \u00a0accompanying the screening of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/no-fire-zone-goes-to-michigan\/\">No Fire Zone<\/a><\/span> at the Student-Chapter of Amnesty International at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48864, USA . To read the full speech &#8220;Looking Ahead: After the UNHRC Resolution Mandating the Office of the High Commissioner to Undertake a War Crimes Investigation in Sri Lanka&#8221; click\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/AI-MSU-Talk-Latest-1610-HRS.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62714,"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-122552","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>Looking Ahead: Honorary Doctor Rajapaksa&#039;s War Crime Investigation  - 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\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking Ahead: Honorary Doctor Rajapaksa&#039;s War Crime Investigation  - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-03-31T23:20:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-04-07T21:01:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"169\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/\",\"name\":\"Looking Ahead: Honorary Doctor Rajapaksa's War Crime Investigation - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-31T23:20:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-04-07T21:01:38+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/looking-ahead-honorary-doctor-rajapaksas-war-crime-investigation\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hoole-2.jpg\",\"width\":\"169\",\"height\":\"200\",\"caption\":\"Prof S. 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