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In adopting a country-specific resolution against Sri Lanka that calls upon the

United Nations Human Rights Commissioner to undertake a comprehensive

investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and

related crimes by both parties in Sri Lanka, the UN Human Rights Council has

again brought the focus as much on the killings in the last phase of the civil war

in Sri Lanka, as on the international investigation into issues in a sovereign state.

No progress has been made to fix responsibility for the mass killings in the last

phase of the civil war in 2009. The resolution, co-sponsored by 41 countries and

piloted by the U.S., contended that Sri Lanka has failed to achieve reconciliationfollowing the end of the three-decade long civil war. But it does not build on the

earlier resolutions against Sri Lanka; it rather marks a worrying point of

departure. So far, the emphasis has been on encouraging and urging Sri Lanka.

The new mandate of the international investigative mechanism is open-ended.

Opponents of the resolution were against the imposition of an international

investigation by expanding the role of the Office of the High Commissioner for

Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Special Procedures of the HRC. The resolution

includes many prescriptive elements. The U.S. sees the vote as an act that seeks

to push Sri Lanka into pursuing lasting peace, and wants to drive home the point

that justice and accountability cannot wait.

India was in the limelight at the 25th session of the HRC. It had unconditionally

backed Sri Lanka in the 2009 session, soon after the end of the war. It went to the

other extreme and voted against Sri Lanka in 2012 and 2013. In fact, in 2013 it

even worked to make the language of the resolution harsher. The same conditions

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as in 2013 exist now: elections to the Northern provincial council were held in

September 2012. The Tamil Nadu factor that had influenced Indias vote the last

time round seems to have lost steam with the Congress and the DMK parting

ways. In any case, it is debatable if even at its height it would have overcome

Indias long-standing opposition to intrusive international investigations asenvisaged by the latest resolution. By voting twice against Sri Lanka in the past

years, India had already antagonised the majority Sinhala community. With India

abstaining this time, the northern Tamils seem to have lost faith in India. Not

many believe anything will change for Tamils in Sri Lanka if the OHCHR carries

out the investigation. An intrusive investigation has so far not yielded genuine

reconciliation, and a life of dignity and self-respect for people anywhere. Sri

Lanka cant be any different.