'UN High Commissioner's report portrayed LTTE as heroic' - Lord Naseby

Sunday, 21 February 2021 - 19:54

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Lord Naseby of Britain accuses UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet of trying to make the LTTE heroic in her report on Sri Lanka.

Based on the report, the UN Human Rights Council's hosting body in Sri Lanka, including the United Kingdom, will submit a resolution to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Lord Naseby, who is also chairman of the British Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka, points out that the LTTE's atrocities were forgotten in the Human Rights Commissioner's report.

In a letter to the office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, Lord Naseby added that the LTTE, a brutal terrorist organization, had assassinated moderate Tamil leaders, as well as former President R. Premadasa and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

UNICEF has acknowledged the use of child soldiers by the LTTE in waging an extremist, violent armed war against the democratically elected government of Sri Lanka.

Lord Naseby also points out that about 60% of the LTTE cadres killed in the war were child soldiers.

He also questioned the British government as to why it was not taking action against Adele Balasingham, a British citizen, for using child soldiers in such a manner.

Although Michelle Bachelet's report put the number of civilians killed in the final battle of the war at 40,000, Lord Naseby points out that it is not an independently confirmed number, but that the number could be between 5,000 and 7,000 or less.

Lord Naseby stressed that although the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights only referred to the current government, the tenure of other post-war presidents should also be assessed.

The report of the Commissioner for Human Rights has stated that the present government has given high posts to military personnel.

But Lord Naseby noted that British leaders who emerged after World War II used military personnel for such key positions and that it was not uncommon for Sri Lanka to do so after 30 years of war.

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