UN Security Council
condemns assassination of Minster Kadirgamar as a ”senseless act of
terrorism”
[August 17, 2005 - 10.00 GMT]
The United Nations Security Council has
strongly condemned the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman
Kadirgamar as a “senseless act of terrorism”, and has urged that it be
“speedily investigated and the perpetrators, organizers and their
sponsors” brought to justice.
According to a Foreign Ministry communiqué
the statement by the President of the Council came on Monday 15th
August, the day Sri Lanka bid farewell to Minister Kadirgamar who was
assassinated by an LTTE sniper on the 12th.
With the increasing number of governments
and world leaders describing the assassination as “a vicious terrorist
act”, with legal implications under international law where the
perpetrators are identified as “terrorists”, the national and
international authorities will be obliged to redouble efforts to bring
the perpetrators to justice.
On a previous occasion also, in July 2005,
the LTTE was named as an offending party by the UN for recruitment of
child soldiers. The UN Resolution which followed recommendations
submitted by the Secretary General in his February 2005 report on
Children and Armed Conflict, calls for the imposition of targeted and
graduated sanctions against offending parties, which may include “travel
restrictions on leaders, and their exclusion from any governance
structures and amnesty provisions, the imposition of arms embargoes, a
ban on military assistance, and restriction on the flow of financial
resources to the parties concerned.”
According to UNICEF, the LTTE has
intensified recruitment of children even after the ceasefire agreement
was signed in 2002.
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