AG on "forced registration"

Thursday, 03 March 2011 12:49

The Attorney General today made an undertaking in Supreme Court to suspend the forced registration of residents in North by the military.

A group of TNA Parliamentarians earlier filed a fundamental rights violation petition seeking to stop what they called ‘forced registration’ of residents of Jaffna and Kilinochchi districts allegedly by the Security Forces.

Jaffna district Parliamentarians Mavai Senathirajah, Suresh Premachandran, Appathurai Vinayagamoorthy, ivagnanam Shritharan and Eswarapatham Saravanapavan filed their petition through Attorney Mohan Balendra.

They cited Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Jaffna Security Forces Commander Mahinda Hathurusinghe, Army Spokesman Udaya Madawala, Jaffna Government Agent Ms Imelda Sukumar and the Attorney General as Respondents. (SSS)

Comments

-5+41#SureshP2011-03-03 13:03

Good!! Just like the undertaking to supply hot water to SF

-29+4#rosh2011-03-03 14:28

yeah SF should be sent a pot with hot water.

-67+129#David2011-03-03 13:06

Tamils won't have to face any of these circumstances if they had lived peacefully in this country, two cultures don't have much of a different compared with Muslims, unfortunately now they paying for their wrong doings....

-89+59#cracko2011-03-03 13:28

David, you are amazing! You are forgetting why some Tamils rebelled. You therefore want all Tamils to pay for it.

-58+30#local boy2011-03-03 13:33

good point

-27+39#roshan raz2011-03-03 13:56

david you should have been crucified for being such a genius..
start reading sri lankan history. who started this? now i think you are focusing on muslims.

-9+28#Victoria2011-03-03 15:00

we will have to wait to see who is paying fortheir wrong doings??

-2+20#viraj2011-03-03 19:31

My friend, what about the wrong doing of the Sinhalese or have conveniently, like the average Sri Lankan, forgotten the atrocities committed on the Tamils beginning with the Galle Face satyagraha? And the denial of their legitimate rights of equality?

-9+40#Analyst2011-03-03 13:12

Suspension only till the end of UNHRC session in March.

-12+28#Darwin2011-03-03 13:16

This is the Miracle country!

-12+20#ind2011-03-03 13:28

What is the relevant on this ??.

-47+17#Konde bendapu china2011-03-03 13:18

Registration is very vital for Security reasons ,what they called ‘forced registration’ is exaggeration

-20+47#spark2011-03-03 13:23

This is nothing but state harrassment of the tamils. This is done with the knowledge and blessings of the highest in power. What a shame.

-43+22#ind2011-03-03 13:29

Not only Tamils we too asked to register. Nothing new too. But tamils take everything even if any information is asked as "forced".( As if they have something to hide)

-7+23#Victoria2011-03-03 15:10

We too means who and where?? and when ???

-7+25#zorro2011-03-03 15:41

you mean like the srilankan majority and the govt. get angry at any mentioning of an "int. inquiry on war crimes". We are the nation full of deniers and blinds!

-16+4#Wara2011-03-03 16:41

Which has never took place !

-22+9#malkanthi2011-03-03 15:23

But then I don't understand why terrorists were not concern about innocent civilians before they blew up and the rest of the community rejoiced at such tragedy!!

-8+18#cracko2011-03-03 15:47

Malkanthi, you are amazing. That is why they are called Terrorists!

-0+1#malkanthi2011-03-04 11:47

spark, for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem rather than being stagnated in the issue for ever.

-2+31#zorro2011-03-03 15:19

registration is not bad, it helps a lot in civil administration and things like tax. But registering only the Tamils is not right. If registering then everyone.

-10+20#Dheen2011-03-03 15:21

It is crystal clear that the North-East is now governed by India.

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