JAFFNA : The North-East Coordinating Committee (NECC) a network of grass root human rights
organizations that function in all eight districts of the Northern and Eastern provinces of SriLanka has presented a petition to the visiting High Commissioner Volker Turk preceded by a street demonstration .
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” We North-East Coordinating Committee (NECC) a network of grass root human rights
organizations that function in all eight districts of the Northern and Eastern provinces of SriLanka make our recommendations to your excellency as follows
- Sri-Lanka must abide to the UNHRC Resolution 46/1 and take responsibility to
implement accountability mechanisms for past war crimes, crimes against humanity
and all sorts of human rights violations - Sri-Lanka must commit to seek truth and to provide justice for enforced
disappearances with international advice and engagements - Sri-Lanka shall not prevent war affected Tamil people of North and East engaging in
memorialization and creating monuments for their disappeared and killed beloved
ones individually and collectively - Sri-Lanka must end militarization in North and East Sri-Lanka and ensure
normalization in civil life - Sri-Lanka must stop intimidating civil society organizations, journalists, social
activists and members of CBOs - Sri-Lanka must immediately end intimidating and harassing women human rights
defenders (Please see Appendix I) - Sri-Lanka must release all lands occupied by military, encroached by the
Archeological Department and Forest Department (Please see Appendix II) - Sri-Lanka must end Buddhisization in North and East and prevent encroaching Hindu
and Muslim religious places in these areas “
