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India has always been known for its patient and calm behaviour amongst all the countries ; be it the matter of border problem with Pakistan or problem with Bangladesh. India has supported Srilanka a lot in the context of providing help regarding the issue of LTTE , building homes for the war effected people but this time surely India has to take some strong steps against the injustice prevailing in Srilanka . It should stop support to this country until and unless the government of Srilanka does'nt look into the matter of injustice going over the war effected people, India should ask the Srilankan government to provide justice and support to the effected people there.
I urge the Indian government to stop providing support to Srilankan government. Now when the United Nations has closed its office in Srilanka, the pressure will be high on Srilankan part and there will be activites of providing justice to the people .Last week alone saw one media outlet receive a threatening letter and the head of another charged with fraud by the supreme court after publishing stories critical of the government. And two international NGO workers involved in protecting journalists had their visas revoked. The situation has been deteriorating for some time. at least 14 media workers have been killed in the country since 2006 and more than 20 are thought to have fled – more per capita than have left Iran. Arbitrary arrests, abductions and assassinations have been documented for over three decades. No one has ever been prosecuted for these attacks on the media.The end of the war has changed nothing. Phones are tapped. Emails hacked. Media outlets harassed and journalists threatened
All this is happening under the noses of the world's press. While burning effigies of Ban draw the spotlight for a few days, Sri Lanka's slow descent into dictatorship has mostly gone unnoticed.All of us who care about universal values, and freedom of expression in particular, have a duty not to let Rajapaksa's twisted version of events go unanswered. If we do so, we encourage other states to believe that they too can get away with the "Sri Lanka option" – using brutal methods to crush internal opposition, without regard for civilian casualties or international law. It has been reported that leaders from Colombia to Thailand have been following Rajapaksa's "success" with great interest
So India, wake up and dont be a part of anti human rights activities prevailing in Srilanka......because at the end of the day its the humanity which pays.....
*( For Amnesty International )
http://www.amnesty.org/
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