Sri Lanka's Northern Provincial Council adopts resolution calling for an international investigation on 'genocide'
Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 09:41 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Feb 10, Colombo: The Northern Provincial Council in Sri Lanka Tuesday adopted a resolution calling for an international investigation into alleged acts of genocide committed against the Tamils during the war.
Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran presented an amended version of the resolution calling for an international inquiry on genocide against Tamils committed by the successive governments since the country's independence from the British in 1948.
The resolution notes that the obligation to prevent and punish genocide under the Genocide Convention is not a matter of political choice or calculation, but one of binding customary international law.
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Tue, Feb 10, 2015, 09:41 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Feb 10, Colombo: The Northern Provincial Council in Sri Lanka Tuesday adopted a resolution calling for an international investigation into alleged acts of genocide committed against the Tamils during the war.
Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran presented an amended version of the resolution calling for an international inquiry on genocide against Tamils committed by the successive governments since the country's independence from the British in 1948.
The resolution notes that the obligation to prevent and punish genocide under the Genocide Convention is not a matter of political choice or calculation, but one of binding customary international law.
more/source: http://ift.tt/1E3zms5
Sri Lanka's Northern Provincial Council adopts resolution for investigation
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