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By B.M.Murshideen


More than 5,500 cases are pending at the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (SLHRC) in Colombo and in the regional offices island wide due to the non-appointment of the Commissioners since April 2009.

Secretary of the Human Rights Commission Chandra Ellawala told the Daily Mirror that they have received nearly 7500 complaints from January 2010.

Ms. Chandra Ellawala also said that they are currently doing only the preliminary investigations on complaints received by them.

“We can’t make any recommendations without the Commissioners. We are not empowered to issue recommendations. If the case is only fit we complete the inquiries,” she added.

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  • TP Thursday, 26 August 2010 03:54 PM

    7500 complaints are from those who had the means to file, how about the thousands who bear silently. How can we say that we have a clean and just society, who os to be blamed?

    banda Thursday, 26 August 2010 04:48 PM

    that is the purpose of not appointing a commissioner Ms. Ellawala. By the way we havent had any HR-violations even during the war in 2009 so why do we need a commisioner now?

    Above he Crowd Thursday, 26 August 2010 05:09 PM

    Why not export some of these cases and earn some foreign exchange?

    Ruki Thursday, 26 August 2010 05:16 PM

    There is nothing called human rights in the miracle that is Sri Lanka for anyone to violate in the first place, so why bother?

    pj Thursday, 26 August 2010 07:06 PM

    This has been the practice since 2007 - The year MR blatantly ignored all the procedures and appointed HIS men as Commissioners. R.I.P HRCSL!

    Sasanka De Silva Thursday, 26 August 2010 07:30 PM

    When there are NO HUMAN RIGHTS in SRI LANKA today, I wonder how there can be any violations?

    pj Thursday, 26 August 2010 09:16 PM

    The HRC has had no mandate since 2007.

    KKK@UAE Friday, 27 August 2010 06:45 AM

    I did File a Case in 2008 Against a School Principal who refused to take my 6 year old child to grade 1 & after 4 piliminarry inqueries & despite verdict too given child still go to private school, If HRCSL can not meet its basic requirements, why we need such thing in SriLanka???


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