 | | | "We have seen many committees and commissions of human rights", says Mano Ganesan |
Government’s proposals to establish a parliamentary select committee on Human Rights and a new IIGEP with eminent persons drawn from SAARC countries is a ploy to buy time, says Western Peoples Front Leader and Civil Monitoring Commission Convener MP Mano Ganesan. Sri Lanka has seen many committees and commissions and many state agencies established by this government in the name of combating human rights violations but to no avail, he says. “The long list begins with the formal National Human Rights Commission, the Mahanama Tilakaratne Commission, the Special Presidential Commission, the IIGEP and a government Ministerial committee. In addition there are the special police units and the Ministry for human rights. None of these have helped to improve the human rights conditions in this country.” he said. MP Mano Ganean made these observations when he met with visiting officials of the European Commission's office of the external relations Director-General, Ms.Helen Campbell and Andrea Nicolaj at the EU premises in Colombo. Ganesan said that they discussed the prevailing political and human rights conditions in the country. | 
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