by Prof Rajiva Wijesinha

The Asian Human Rights Commission has once again decided to engage in critical generalizations about Sri Lanka, in pursuit of its aim of proving that the government cares nothing about human rights whereas AHRC is the noblest, not to say, the most garrulous, champion of them all. This time it hangs its critique on the UN Day in Support of Victims of Torture, and claims that Sri Lanka is indifferent to torture charges, its principal arguments being that the Ministry of Disaster Management did nothing to commemorate this day, and instead a statement ‘from the spokesman for the ministry manifested the usual lack of political will to deal with the issue of torture’.