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By Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Samarasinghe is an important interlocutor, especially in the conext of the Consultative Committee on Humanitaria Access (CCHA), which he chairs. Our recent intractions with him on human rights issues have beenless productive, with Samarasinghe often appearing to be engaged in simple damage control efforts. Defending Sri Lanka’s spotty human rights record is a difficult task, and Samarasinghe in this meeting appeared uncharacteristically nonplussed. The upcoming UPR will constitute a major opportunity for member states to question Sri Lanka on its failure to address human rights concerns. Samarasinghe is well aware of this and is seeking to use this to prod action on the Constitutional Council and perhaps other concerns.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sri Lanka\u2019s Mahinda Samarasinghe before a special session of the Human Rights Council. Photo by Jean-Marc Ferre\/United Nations<\/p><\/div>\n

A classified diplomatic cable which details a meeting then US\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0to Colombo\u00a0Robert Blake<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has had with\u00a0Human Rights Minster Mahinda Samarasinghe on January 25, 2008\u00a0The\u00a0Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related cable from\u00a0WikiLeaks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0database. The cable is classified as \u201cConfidential\u201d signed by\u00a0Robert Blake\u00a0on February 11, 2008.<\/p>\n

Ambassador Blake wrote\u00a0\u00a0“Ambassador met Human Rights Minster Mahinda Samarasinghe on January 25 to discuss a range of U.S. concerns about Sri Lanka’s human rights situation, including recent incidents. Samarasinghe explained Sri Lanka’s strategy for engagement with the UN Human Rights Council, emphasizing the GSL’s resistance to a separate office for the staff of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), but expressing willingness to accept technical assistance for Sri Lanka’s national Human Rights Commission. Samarasinghe made clear that Sri Lanka was opposed to discussing its human rights performance in a Special Session of the HRC, but was preparing its submission for the Universal Periodic review in mid-May. Samarasinghe appeared at times to be at a loss to account for discrepancies in government accounts of several human rights incidents and recent developments.”<\/p>\n

“Minister Samarasinghe told Ambassador and Pol Chief on January 25 that the GSL was engaged in a full-press effort to prepare for the Universal Periodic review (UPR) of Sri Lanka in mid-May 2008. Samarasinghe said Sri Lanka welcomed the opportunity for a discussion of its human rights record “in a controlled atmosphere,” indicating that the GSL would resist any effort to place Sri Lanka on the agenda of a Special Session. Sri Lankan government entities such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Attorney General’s Office, and the Human Rights Commission were all working on Sri Lanka’s submission to the UPR, which would be due in March. Samarasinghe said he had exhorted his colleagues to try to make progress on the international community’s concerns between now and May, confiding that he would not be comfortable going into such a review based on the current state of play. ‘I told them they need to give me something to work with.'” Blake further wrote.<\/p>\n

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Read the cabale below for further details ; SRI LANKA: MINISTER’S STRATEGY FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL<\/p>\n

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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 COLOMBO 000149 \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nSIPDIS \r\n\r\nDEPARTMENT FOR SCA\/INS AND DRL\/NESCA \r\n\r\nE.O. 12958: DECL: 02\/11\/2017\r\nTAGS: PGOV<\/a> PHUM<\/a> PREL<\/a> MOPS<\/a> CE<\/a>\r\nSUBJECT: SRI LANKA: MINISTER'S STRATEGY FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH\r\nHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL \r\n\r\nREF: A) GENEVA 107 B) GENEVA 108 C) 07 COLOMBO 959 \r\n\r\nClassified By: CLASSIFED BY AMBASSADOR ROBERT O. BLAKE, JR. REASONS: 1.\r\n4(b,d). \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>1.  (C) SUMMARY:  Ambassador met Human Rights Minster Mahinda\r\nSamarasinghe on January 25 to discuss a range of U.S.\r\nconcerns about Sri Lanka's human rights situation, including\r\nrecent incidents.  Samarasinghe explained Sri Lanka's\r\nstrategy for engagement with the UN Human Rights Council,\r\nemphasizing the GSL's resistance  to a separate office for\r\nthe staff of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),\r\nbut expressing willingness to accept technical assistance for\r\nSri Lanka's national Human Rights Commission.  Samarasinghe\r\nmade clear that Sri Lanka was opposed to discussing its human\r\nrights performance in a Special Session of the HRC, but was\r\npreparing its submission for the Universal Periodic review in\r\nmid-May.  Samarasinghe appeared at times to be at a loss to\r\naccount for discrepancies in government accounts of several\r\nhuman rights incidents and recent developments. End Summary. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>2.  (C) Minister Samarasinghe told Ambassador and Pol Chief\r\non January 25 that the GSL was engaged in a full-press effort\r\nto prepare for the Universal Periodic review (UPR) of Sri\r\nLanka in mid-May 2008.  Samarasinghe said Sri Lanka welcomed\r\nthe opportunity for a discussion of its human rights record\r\n\"in a controlled atmosphere,\" indicating that the GSL would\r\nresist any effort to place Sri Lanka on the agenda of a\r\nSpecial Session.  Sri Lankan government entities such as the\r\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs, the Attorney General's Office,\r\nand the Human Rights Commission were all working on Sri\r\nLanka's submission to the UPR, which would be due in March.\r\nSamarasinghe said he had exhorted his colleagues to try to\r\nmake progress on the international community's concerns\r\nbetween now and May, confiding that he would not be\r\ncomfortable going into such a review based on the current\r\nstate of play.  \"I told them they need to give me something\r\nto work with.\" \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>3.  (C) Ambassador asked whether discussions with Louise\r\nArbour about an enhanced presence of the Office of the High\r\nCommissioner for Human Rights in Sri Lanka had reached an\r\nimpasse, or were continuing.  Samarasinghe repeated that the\r\ngovernment would not entertain the idea of a separate status\r\nfor the OHCHR, but wanted to talk about the possibility of\r\ntechnical assistance for the national Human Rights\r\nCommission.  He noted that he and Arbour \"have an excellent\r\nrelationship.  She says what she feels she has to say in\r\npublic, and I do the same.\" \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>4.  (C) Ambassador reiterated that it was well within the\r\npower of the security forces, who have an iron grip on the\r\nJaffna peninsula, to rein in the groups that are responsible\r\nfor extrajudicial killings, disappearances, and other serious\r\nabuses.  Ambassador noted that the situation in Batticaloa\r\nwas starting to resemble that in Jaffna. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>5.  (C) Ambassador expressed grave concern over the situation\r\nin the East, especially in Batticaloa, where armed groups are\r\npreparing to contest local elections, and extrajudicial\r\nkillings are occurring at the rate of 1-2 per day.    He\r\nurged the GSL to do more to assert control over law and\r\norder, saying that the police were clearly unwilling to\r\nconfront the TMVP (Karuna\/Pillaiyan faction).  Samarasinghe\r\nexpressed surprise, saying he would check with the Red Cross,\r\nbecause he had not seen evidence of this in the numbers the\r\nICRC provides to the government. (Note: the ICRC has\r\nconfirmed to us privately the spike in killings in Batticaloa\r\n- please strictly protect.) \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>6.  (C) Ambassador noted that many of the problems Sri Lanka\r\ncontinued to experience with human rights violations, the\r\nlack of accountability and other governance and transparency \r\n\r\nCOLOMBO 00000149  002 OF 002 \r\n\r\nissues were traceable to the GSL's failure to appoint the\r\nConstitutional Council in accordance with the 17th Amendment\r\nto the Constitution (septel to follow).  Since the minority\r\nparties had reached agreement on the composition of the\r\nCommittee, when would the President take action to appoint\r\nit?  Samarasinghe said that the agreement of the JHU had only\r\nbeen obtained in the last few days and the government was\r\nwaiting for the official communication.  He observed that \"a\r\nlot of the flak we are taking would come down\" once the\r\nConstitutional Council and the independent commissions it\r\nappoints were in place.  He argued that the perception that\r\nthe president was deliberately hindering the formation of the\r\nConstitutional Council \"should not be so negative.\" \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>7.  (C) Samarasinghe noted that the public inquiry phase had\r\nstarted on the case of the five Tamil youths killed in\r\nTrincomalee (\"Trinco 5\").  He expressed hope that progress\r\nmight also be made on the case of the 17 aid workers\r\nmassacred in Muttur: \"If we can finish that, I'll be a lot\r\nhappier.\"  Ambassador said the U.S. and others would also\r\nwelcome progress in the high-profile cases within the CoI's\r\nambit and inquired about the status of witness protection\r\nlegislation.  Samarasinghe said that the proposal was still\r\nwith the legal draftsman in the Ministry of Justice, after\r\nwhich the bill would go back to the Cabinet of Ministers for\r\napproval. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>8.  (C)  Ambassador asked about the progress of the\r\ninvestigation into the killing of Tamil opposition MP\r\nMaheswaran on January 1 while worshiping in a Hindu Temple.\r\nSamarasinghe pointed out that the President had announced\r\nthat the killer had confessed to being a member of the LTTE.\r\nAmbassador asked about the relevance of a statement by GSL\r\ndefense spokesperson Rambukwella that the suspect had\r\npreviously been a member of the security detail of Social\r\nAffairs Minister Douglas Devananda (also head of the\r\npro-government paramilitary group EPDP).  Samarasinghe could\r\noffer no explanation. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>9.  (C) Ambassador then inquired about the recent release on\r\nbail and dismissal of most charges against former Air Force\r\nGroup Captain Nishantha Gajanayake and others who had been\r\narrested for involvement in the abduction and murder of two\r\nSri Lankan Red Cross workers and other \"disappearances,\"\r\nnoting that a senior military official had appeared to post\r\nbail for Gajanakaye.  Samarasinghe appeared deeply\r\nembarrassed, only saying, \"I don't know\" and suggesting that\r\nwe ask the Attorney General about the status of the case. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>10.  (C) COMMENT: Samarasinghe is an important interlocutor,\r\nespecially in the conext of the Consultative Committee on\r\nHumanitaria Access (CCHA), which he chairs.  Our recent\r\nintractions with him on human rights issues have beenless\r\nproductive, with Samarasinghe often appearing to be engaged\r\nin simple damage control efforts.  Defending Sri Lanka's\r\nspotty human rights record is a difficult task, and\r\nSamarasinghe in this meeting appeared uncharacteristically\r\nnonplussed.  The upcoming UPR will constitute a major\r\nopportunity for member states to question Sri Lanka on its\r\nfailure to address human rights concerns. Samarasinghe is\r\nwell aware of this and is seeking to use this to prod action\r\non the Constitutional Council and perhaps other concerns.\r\nBLAKE<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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