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The University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) in a strongly worded Report earlier this month said, “We strongly recommend action on the following demands, some of which have already been made by others:
§ That the GOSL and LTTE place human rights concern at the fore in the next round of talks and accept the presence of an internationally accredited human rights expert. § Take urgent action to release child soldiers and stop propaganda and enticement in schools to recruit children. § That the SLMM and others concerned in monitoring human rights in the peace process take urgent steps to release all abducted members of political groups independent of the LTTE and remove all obstacles or threats they face in functioning in the North-East (see Section 6). § Press for a fresh independent inquiry into past atrocities by all parties, with a view to providing justice to the victims. The disappearance of 181 persons removed by the Army from the Eastern University in September 1990 was commemorated recently. The State and the LTTE were responsible for numerous massacres in the East. Many of those who lent complicity to the State's atrocities are still in government. Documentation from past inquiries may be used as a starting point. § Link development funding to consolidation of human rights, democracy and pluralism in the North-East, along with tangible efforts to bring communities together, particularly in the markedly multi-ethnic East. We are in a transient phase and not in a post conflict situation. Development and reconstruction efforts need to take this into account along with the political reality in the North-East. It calls for wider participation of different segments of the people. Allowing the LTTE alone to control the development programmes in furtherance of its hidden agenda would be utterly inimical to the people's interest.”
The University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna)
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