Founder President at Center for Peace and Reconciliation Studies

1. Resolution 30/1 of the UN HRC only mentions a “technical cooperation and capacity-building for the promotion and protection of human rights in #SriLanka in a new juridical body” not an international committee of inquiry… #LTTE #Terrorism #financeofterrorism

Jan 12Prof. Dr. H.C Mehmet Sukru Guzel@MehmetSukruGuz2·2. This new juridical body had an obligation as well originating from resolution 30/1 to ask the #UN #HRC to fulfill its obligation to implement the UN #GLOBALCOUNTERTERRORISMSTRATEGY and

Jan 12Prof. Dr. H.C Mehmet Sukru Guzel@MehmetSukruGuz2·3. and ask for a new resolution to set up an international committee of inquiry for the finance of terrorism in Sri Lanka

Now, I am happy to learn that the President of Sri Lanka sets up “Commission of Inquiry” based on ‘sovereignty’ and ‘non-aligned’ foreign policy that is in fact what is written in the text of resolution 30/1 of the HRC, in exact words…

Till this time, it is always mentioned wrongfully that an international committee of inquiry was accepted by Sri Lanka, no Sri Lanka accepted only technical cooperation and capacity-building for the promotion and protection of human rights in #SriLanka in a new juridical body” not an international committee of inquiry…