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Sri Lanka’s envoy slams OHCHR report as flawed, biased and self-generated
View(s):Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Geneva, Himalee Arunatilaka, wrote to the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner, Volker Turk, rejecting what she called an “unwarranted and unilateral initiative” by his office (OHCHR) to release a report on Sri Lanka’s human rights record in the absence of any mandate from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
She called it a high-handed action while questioning the motives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a Foreign Ministry source told the Sunday Times yesterday.
Her letter said the OHCHR report was “flawed” and went against the fundamental principles of impartiality, objectivity, and non-selectivity, the source added. The letter said the OHCHR report was “biased, politicised, and self-generated” while being made at a time when the government was engaged in a series of reconciliation efforts.
Ambassador Arunatilaka referred to the timing of the release of the report on the eve of the anniversary of the ending of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 and went on to outline the work the government has done in the backdrop of a serious economic crisis as well.
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