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Sri Lankan president rules out autonomy for Tamils
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s president has ruled out allowing minority Tamils greater political autonomy as a solution to a decades-long ethnic conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people.
They just finished a three-decade old civil war to answer that question...
In his independence day speech on Monday, President Mahinda Rajapaksa promised “equal rights to all communities” as a practical way to bring about ethnic harmony.

He said the the United Nations charter does not allow nations to use threat or force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, said Rajapaksa in Trincomalee. Addressing a gathering of more than 4,000 people in the former Tamil Tiger stronghold, Rajapaksa read out sections of the UN charter which says the United Nations does not have jurisdiction over internal matters of member states.

Sri Lanka has been facing alleged war crimes and human rights charges since the end of its war in 2009 against the Tamil Tiger rebels. A year after the war ended, an unofficial UN report accusing the army and Tamil Tigers of war crimes resulted in several nations calling for an international investigations into the country’s war.

However, the government has repeatedly asked that nations should be left alone to deal with their own internal matters.
Posted by: Steve White 2013-02-05
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=361579