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Tis the season for scoring brownie points; this time with frenzy of letter writing

Whenever the UN Human Rights Council meets and Sri Lanka is on the agenda, as has been the case since the end of the northern insurgency in 2009, Tamil politics is full of false hopes and empty assurances from politicians to affected people.

A father who lost his entire family in the final phases of the armed conflict told in a testimonial to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) some time back of how they hoped the UN would have intervened with the support of Western countries. He declared the UN is a "dead dog".

After eleven years since the end of the war, Tamil political parties and politicians are trying to score some brownie points by writing letters to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Even parties within the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) are divided among each other on the contents of the letter and sent separate letters. The main constituent party Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) sent a letter after failing to reach consensus among other parties.

So too did the Tamil Makkal Kootani (TMK) led by the former Supreme Court justice C. V. Wigneswaran and the All Ceylon Tamil Congress led by Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam .

A retired teacher who was in a long queue in front of a cooperative shop this week to purchase essentials remarked it is a shame that all Tamil political parties could not come to a common stand on this. “This is like a circus,” he declared among those waiting for hours for their essential foodstuffs.

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2021-09-12T07:00:00.0000000Z

2021-09-12T07:00:00.0000000Z

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