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Reconciliation in Sri Lanka - War has gone but peace has yet to come (Paperback)
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Reconciliation in Sri Lanka - War has gone but peace has yet to come (Paperback)
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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject South Asian Studies,
South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, - (Webster University
Thailand, International Relations), course: INTL5550, language:
English, abstract: On May 18, 2009 the Government of Sri Lanka
(GoSL) declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE) and ended a 30-year conflict. The way the final phase of the
war was fought, how it ended and what happened with the Tamil
civilians and LTTE combatants at the end of the hostilities became
a controversial issue. The Security Council (SC) considered the war
and the internments of the internally displaced people (IDP) as an
internal matter. The GoSL always called the final stage of the war
a "humanitarian rescue operation" and presented its actions as part
of a large hostage rescue operation (This was based on the
well-known fact that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
were holding back civilians in its territory). At the end of the
hostilities, civilians were put in overcrowded, closed camps for
"InternalIy Displaced Persons" (IDPs) with limited humanitarian
assistance where they were exposed to harassment by security forces
who were looking for LTTE fighters likely to be hiding among them.
After more than a year, on June 22, 2010 the SG announced the
appointment of an 'Experts' Panel' to inform him of the progress of
the commitment made by the GoSL after his visit in 2009. The UN
Panel of Experts completed its report at the end of March 2011 and
made it public on April 25. The Lessons Learned and Reconciliation
Commission's (LLRC) accountability initiative had by then conducted
eight months of public hearings and the GoSL was very concerned
that the earlier publication of the UN Panel report would
compromise its domestic driven initiative. Past events are the
underlying cause for a need for a reconciliation process. They are
well documented and the author has referred to them when
strengthening or clarifying an argument. The length of
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