About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/d18a4d8172824837572e557493404f7a131a10fb475970e72c235d32

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/d18a4d8172824837572e557493404f7a131a10fb475970e72c235d32 Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:NewsArticle
schema:articleBody	Sri Lanka Tuesday threatened to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council if it pursued war crimes claims allegedly committed by government forces during a bloody war with Tamil Tiger separatists. The country's president Gotabaya Rajapaksa -- the top defence official when the rebels were defeated in May 2009 under his brother, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa -- issued the warning at the 11th anniversary of the end of the 37-year conflict. In a brief but emotional speech during the commemoration at a war memorial in the capital Colombo that was slimmed-down due to the coronavirus pandemic, Rajapaksa said it was his "national duty" to protect troops. "If any international body or organisation continuously targets our country and our war heroes using baseless allegations, I will also not hesitate to withdraw Sri Lanka from such bodies or organisations," Rajapaksa said, switching to English during his speech in Sinhala. Rajapaksa, a retired army lieutenant colonel, did not single out the United Nations, but his remarks were widely viewed as aimed at the Human Rights Council. "Even leaders of powerful countries have emphatically stated that they will not allow any action against their war heroes," he added. "I will not allow anyone or organisation to exert undue pressure on them and harass them." The top rights body has called for accountability in Sri Lanka where some 100,000 people died during the war, a demand resisted by successive Rajapaksa administrations. Before he won the November presidential election, Rajapaksa said he would not abide by the commitments of the administration in power at the time to probe war crimes claims. After coming to power, he withdrew the island nation from a United Nations resolution calling for action over the alleged rights abuses. The UN as well as rights bodies have accused Sri Lankan troops of killing up to 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final months of the war, a charge denied by successive governments. aj/grk/bfm
schema:headline	Sri Lanka president warns UN over war crimes claims
schema:mentions	United Nations resolution Lieutenant colonel United Nations Human Rights Council Sinhalese people Joule Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Colombo Mahinda Rajapaksa Gotabhaya Rajapaksa Warini 2016 United States presidential election Sri Lanka United Nations Pandemic United Kingdom Coronavirus War Heroes Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War Sri Lankan Tamils Radio in New Zealand
schema:author	http://data.cimple.eu/organization/1f0054d541e000623a2c1e561a247c073ef6328e8be9ffafda7b3fcd
schema:datePublished	2020-05-19 (xsd:date)
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning	other political leaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment	positive sentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score	88 (xsd:integer)
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion	anger

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 2 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software