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Newsletter Spring 2017 Newsletter Spring 2017 Annual General Meeting 5.30 pm on Wednesday 28 June By very kind permission of Her Excellency Ms. Amari Wijewardene, we shall be holding our Annual General Meeting at the High Commission of Sri Lanka, 13 Hyde Park Gardens, London W2 2LU. Papers will be sent by surface mail to all members in early June. Westminster Hall debate On 28 February, James Berry MP (Con, Kingston & Surbiton) called a 30 minute debate in Westminster Hall to discuss Human Rights in Sri Lanka prior to the matter being taken up at the 34th Sessions of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Mr Berry was keen to ensure that British FCO Ministers would be made aware of the views of MPs from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG-T) of which he is the current Chair. He was joined by Siobhain McDonagh MP (Lab, Mitcham & Morden), Joan Ryan MP (Lab, Enfield North) and Wes Streeting MP (Lab, Ilford North). Their concerns centred on urging the UK to press for Sri Lanka to be set a clear timetable for implementing their own UNHRC resolution. Berry's concerns centred on the lack of progress in setting up a framework for establishing a judicial mechanism and that the Sri Lanka Government appears to have reneged on any possibility of having foreign judges, prosecutors or defence counsel in any accountability process. Two MPs who also joined the debate, but did not have any affiliation to the APPG-T were Ian Paisley MP (DUP, South Antrim) and Sir Hugo Swire MP (Con, East Devon). Paisley (a member of the APPG-Sri Lanka) has been a strong advocate of Sri Lanka. He spoke about the need for patience as, from his own Northern Ireland experience, peace building was an inherently slow process. Paisley asserted that Britain should avoid accusations of hypocrisy especially when “the UK government rightly resisted all calls to make the Bloody Sunday and Iraq enquiries international in any way, because they were domestic enquiries into events that had an international impact. We need to be careful not to tell another country that it must now have an international enquiry into a domestic issue”. Swire, who spoke with some authority, having been the recent FCO Minister that handled Sri Lanka until six months ago, explained that UK MPs should have a greater understanding of the domestic political situation in Sri Lanka when considering the pace of progress. He highlighted the delicate balance that Sri Lanka's coalition government needs to maintain and the difficulties this presents, especially as the alternatives to the Wickremesinghe/Sirisena administration may well be the return of the Rajapaksa regime. Swire also emphasised that Sri Lanka's current priority was economic prosperity that could benefit all communities, and noted that the UK should be pleased that the island was tilting away from Chinese assistance. Swire concluded by referencing the need for the UK to have a more holistic approach to Sri Lanka. He suggested that having two parallel APPGs for Sri Lanka and Tamils was not helpful in supporting the re- 57 Maltravers Street, Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9BQ Tel: 01903 882755 Email: [email protected] Website : www.fosla.org.uk integration of communities, and that a combined group would cause less division and confrontation. With the FCO Minister for Asia & the Pacific (Alok Sharma MP) responsible for Sri Lanka already away in Geneva, it fell upon Under Secretary of State, Tobias Ellwood MP (Con, Bournemouth East) to respond on behalf of the UK Government. He reiterated that UK's current relationship with Sri Lanka was strong, and that Britain's guiding principle was that Sri Lanka should honour its existing resolution commitments in full. He also alluded to high-level engagement and programme funding from the UK. The areas which Britain would like to see further progress is constitutional reform, the release of private land that is being held by SL security forces in the north, news of Transitional Justice mechanisms that could deal with allegations of Human Rights violations, setting up the Office of Missing Persons and a new Prevention of Terrorism Act. He looked forward to hearing about continuing developments following Alok Sharma MP's discussions with Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Tamils for Labour (TFL) meeting Many of the Labour MPs who are members of the APPG-Tamils were later joined by several other Opposition MPs and attended a meeting convened by Tamils for Labour in a committee room of the Westminster Parliamentary complex. Chaired by Joan Ryan MP, who had previously acted as Chief Executive & Policy Advisor to Global Tamil Forum, the meeting was expected to have been attended by the Leader of The Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn MP, however, due to last-minute difficulties, he apologised for his absence and a short message of support was read on his behalf by Shadow Cabinet colleague Barry Gardiner MP (Brent North). The other Labour leaders who spoke included Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry MP. Whilst there were many significant and valid points raised by those who participated, it would be difficult to describe the meeting as being impartial and objective. With a packed room of Sri Lankan Tamils gathered, it was hardly surprising that the tone of the meeting was heavily slanted towards describing the Tamils as victims in the conflict with no counterbalancing voices raised to indicate the long history of acts of alleged Human Rights violations committed by the LTTE. No mention was even hinted about the role that some elements of the Tamil diaspora community play in supporting, and even financing, militia groups such as the LTTE, which many argue could make them complicit in alleged War Crimes during the conflict. In many respects the gathering was an exercise in ensuring that the Labour Party continues to maintain a visible presence in the minds of BME (Black & Minority Ethnic) communities, in this case Tamil voters, especially at a time when the Party's performance in recent by-elections and national opinion polls is slipping. The Labour MPs who attended, many of whom had significant Tamil constituents, included Mike Gapes (Ilford S), Wes Streeting (Ilford N), Stephen Timms (E Ham), Liz Mcinnes (Heywood & Middleton), Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West; whose father is a Tamil) and Dawn Butler (Brent Central). Following the meeting, Emily Thornberry wrote to her opposite number, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, highlighting the need to press the Sri Lankan government for a firm timetable to deliver the outcomes of UNHRC Resolution 30/1 and to also petition the EU Commission not restore the GSP+ Trade Preference Concessions for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva 34th Sessions (HRC34) Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera addressed HRC34 in Geneva on February 28th at the High Level Ministerial Segment outlining some of Sri Lanka's progress since the last Council meeting on June 29, 2016 This largely amounted to addressing legislative changes in connection with the UNHRC Resolution 30/1. Chief amongst them was the passing of a 2 Parliamentary Bill for the establishment of a Permanent Office on Missing Persons together with approval for a budget for its implementation. Progress in other areas were reported as still being in various stages of work-in-progress, ie: Legislation to tackle Enforced Disappearances, adoption of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons, the National Policies on Durable Solutions for Conflict-affected Displacement and the Human Rights Action Plan (2017-2021) have all been approved by Cabinet, yet still await being tabled in Parliament. In contrast to the previous administration, Sri Lanka now engages positively with UN bodies and has recently provided periodic reports to Committees on Migrant Workers, the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee Against Torture. Sri Lanka was also visited in 2016 by the UN Secretary General (Ban Ki- Moon at the time) and the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues. Despite expectations that certain key elements of Resolution 30/1 would be ready for HRC34, the legislation for the Truth-Seeking Commission and new Counter Terrorism Act (to replace the 1979 Prevention of Terrorism Act) both appear to be still only at draft stages and have yet to be submitted to Cabinet. Samaraweera's address was aimed not only at the international delegates present at the Council, but also at detractors of the current government back at home: "The Sri Lanka that we seek to build here onwards, should be one where justice reigns; where Human Rights are valued; where every individual’s dignity is upheld; and where civil society and the media play their due role; a society that believes in the importance of the independence of the judiciary, and the rule of law; and where everyone has equal rights.....As we move forward in this journey, the forces of extremism and regression on both sides of the divide are creating road blocks for narrow, short-term political gain." Samaraweera described work on the new Constitution as being central, imperative and essential for ensuring non-recurrence of conflict, yet he acknowledged that attempts at reform faced "roadblocks and other obstacles in the day to day world of realpolitik". Perhaps the area he spoke least about, but on which many at the Council expected to hear more, were details of any accountability mechanism to address alleged Human Rights violations. Its only mention was "our resolve to see the Transitional Justice process through, has not diminished". With the issue of foreign participation in any Transitional Justice Mechanism being hotly contested back home, it would appear that the policy framework for its establishment is still being kept heavily under wraps.
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