New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party protested outside the Parliament on Tuesday over human rights violations against minority Tamils in Sri Lanka during the war against Tamil separatists.
The protesters demanded that the Indian government should support the resolution of United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) against the Sri Lankan government.
Demanding fair probe into the human rights violations during the war, lawmaker and leader of DMK, Kanimozhi said that the central government should support the resolution on Sri Lanka in United Nations Human Rights Commission.
"We expect India; we want India to support the resolution of UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Commission). We want a fair probe into the human rights violations during the war. The war crimes have to be probed in a fair and just way so that the people get justice," said Kanimozhi.
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed in 2009 in the final months the war, a U.N. panel said, as government troops advanced on the ever-shrinking northern tip of the island controlled by Tamil rebels fighting for an independent homeland.
India is a major partner in Sri Lanka's reconciliation process for its Tamil populace who have bore the brunt of the long war which spanned more than 30 years.
A UN report last year cited an earlier estimate of 40,000 civilians killed in crossfire between government and rebel forces after they were trapped on a sliver of coastline, and cited credible information that over 70,000 remained "unaccounted for".
The UN report reinvigorated calls from human rights groups and expatriate ethnic Tamils for an international investigation into suspected war crimes towards the end of the conflict with the LTTE.
The Sri Lankan Government has repeatedly rejected allegations that it committed war crimes and also rejected suggestions in the report that it had intimidated UN officials. (ANI)
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