Sri Lanka Commonwealth meet: Drive to dissuade PM gets wide support, Amnesty says

CHENNAI: About 35,000 people from India have supported Amnesty International India's campaign to dissuade Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from attending the Commonwealth Head of Governments Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, a statement from Amnesty International said.

The campaign began on October 15 and would continue till the start of CHOGM in November 2013, it added.

"India's staying away from the CHOGM will send a clear signal to President Mahinda Rajapaksa to take action to end human rights violation abuses in Sri Lanka. If the Indian Prime Minister attends the summit in Colombo, he will in effect be giving a stamp of approval to the countless past and ongoing grave human rights abuses in Sri Lanka," G Ananthapadmanabhan, chief executive, Amnesty International India, said in the statement.

The Sri Lankan government has not yet revealed the human rights violations happened at the end of the armed conflict in the country and hasn't done anything to bring those responsible for the crimes to justice, according to the statement. "The Commonwealth's insistence on still allowing Sri Lanka to host this meeting, while torture, abductions and countless other abuses persist in the country, is shameful", said Ananthapadmanabhan.

At the end of the scheduled meeting of the Commonwealth heads, President Rajapaksa is expected to be appointed the Commonwealth chairperson-in-office for the next two years since he is the leader of the host country.

"India should remember that all the Commonwealth countries have committed to the values and principles of human rights, freedom of expression and access to justice. To make the head of a government that continues to repress human rights and is persistently cracking down on dissent the Commonwealth chair would go against the principles of the Commonwealth," he said.

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