Lanka to create truth commission

AFP, GENEVA: Sri Lanka’s new unity government is planning a range of measures to ensure reconciliation after decades of war, including creating an office for war reparations and a truth commission, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said Monday. “The government of Sri Lanka recognises fully that the process of reconciliation involves addressing the broad areas of truth seeking, justice, reparations and non-recurrence,” Samaraweera told the United Nations Human Rights Council. He said the country aimed to create a “Commission for Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and non-recurrence” with help from authorities in South Africa and other countries that have set up their own truth commissions.

Lanka to create truth commission

AFP, GENEVA: Sri Lankas new unity government is planning a range of measures to ensure reconciliation after decades of war, including creating an office for war reparations and a truth commission, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said Monday. The government of Sri Lanka recognises fully that the process of reconciliation involves addressing the broad areas of truth seeking, justice, reparations and non-recurrence, Samaraweera told the United Nations Human Rights Council. He said the country aimed to create a Commission for Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and non-recurrence with help from authorities in South Africa and other countries that have set up their own truth commissions.