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Sri Lanka rejects United Nations call for Humanatarian truce

by senthil5000 | March 31, 2009 at 08:53 pm

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United nation requested for a humanatarian truce again on seeing the increased number of civilian causlities in recent days. But as usual Sri Lanka rejected the ceasefire and continuing the fire.

UNITED NATIONS, March 31 -- As Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa openly rejects UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's call for a cessation of fighting in northern Sri Lanka, on Tuesday in New York Ban's spokesperson Michele Montas had no reply to the rejection, calling it a "media report" and focusing on unrelated reports that soldiers may pull out of some of the government's controversial camps for Internally Displaced People

Also united nation expressed its concern on deteriorating conditions in detention camps for IDPs run by sri lankan army.

The next morning, when President Rajapaksa rejected "international" even for a short pause in military action, the UN had no comment other than happy talk that "we have been getting a little bit.. of protection of civilians," referring to soldiers leaving some camps. But the government has said they will "remain at the camps for 'security reasons,'" and that freedom of movement will not be afforded to the IDP.