Rajiva Wijesinha

“ The government of Sri Lanka has now realized that is must ensure a thorough audit of the funding and outputs of such organizations. Meanwhile it will do its best, through a more judicious use of aid than in the past, to ensure development of its own national institutions that safeguard human rights, welcoming international advice and assistance on how to ensure the credibility and effectiveness of these. ”

“ It has been granted, by the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission amongst others, that the record of the army in this regard is much better than it was.
Certainly we are light years away from the eighties, when the then Sri Lankan government received almost unstinted support from nations and agencies that are now concerned, and it was only the Indian government that raised questions about the treatment of minorities.
However much more needs to be done, for instance with the police, who interact more often with the public, and whose training has been comparatively neglected. ”

“ But unless and until such UN agencies, headed in Sri Lanka by individuals from nations that seem to have previously reached a consensus on increasing Ms Arbour's presence in Sri Lanka, improve their performance, it would be unwise for a government struggling against one of the most ruthless terrorist movements in the world to multiply the entities with which it has to be firmer than it has been in the past. ”