{"id":143779,"date":"2015-04-30T03:57:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=143779"},"modified":"2015-04-30T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T05:28:17","slug":"sri-lanka-in-uk-election-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-in-uk-election-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka In UK Election Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative party has included accountability for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=war+crimes&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">war crimes<\/span><\/a> and crimes against humanity issues related to Sri Lank in its election Manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>On pages 76-77 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/conservativeparty\/docs\/ge_manifesto_low_res_bdecb3a47a0faf?e=16696947\/12362115\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conservative Party&#8217;s election manifesto<\/span><\/a> it states:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will \u2026. promote reconciliation and human rights in Sri Lanka, including through supporting the UN investigation into war crimes, which the Prime Minister was instrumental in securing following his historic visit to Jaffna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Conservative-Partys-election-manifesto-Sri-Lanka-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-143781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Conservative-Partys-election-manifesto-Sri-Lanka-.jpg\" alt=\"Conservative Party's election manifesto Sri Lanka\" width=\"640\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Conservative-Partys-election-manifesto-Sri-Lanka-.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Conservative-Partys-election-manifesto-Sri-Lanka--300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said &#8220;&#8221;For the first time ever, outside Tamil Nadu, a political party, importantly in the West has included accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity issues related to Sri Lank in its election Manifesto.&#8221; But Sri Lanka was mentioned in 2010\u00a0Labour Party Manifesto too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":142845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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