Pillay’s impartiality in question due to serious conflict of
interest
Commissioner Navi Pillay could not in good faith
proclaim that her ethnicity (S. African born and of Tamil descent)
does not put her in a pickle in trying to be an impartial Human
Rights Commissioner. Her ethnic affinity creates an obvious conflict
of interest which threatens the impartiality required of a
Commissioner,
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Sri Lanka is a peaceful, stable and democratically secure
country - Defence Secretary
Very significant in the normalisation process
for the entire country was the repealing of the Emergency
Regulations that had been in place in Sri Lanka for many decades.
These regulations gave wide-reaching powers to law enforcement
authorities, and were necessary during the war for the upholding of
security in the country at large. However, in August 2011, after two
peaceful years had passed since the end of the war without any
terrorism related incidents, the Government repealed these
regulations.
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Think as Sri Lankans first
A close friend of Sri Lanka, Dr. Subramanian
Swamy, commending the decision to hold elections in the Northern
Province said out that if Tamil people need true reconciliation then
they must select the most meritorious candidates and not based on
their ethnicity.
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