http://www.mansfieldchambers.co.uk/shivani-jegarajah-to-speak-at-commonwealth-human-rights-initiative-london/ The Chambers Of Michael Mansfield QC Thu, 24 Dec 2015 23:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.3 http://www.mansfieldchambers.co.uk/shivani-jegarajah-to-speak-at-commonwealth-human-rights-initiative-london/#comment-1424 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 01:29:00 +0000 http://www.mansfieldchambers.co.uk/?p=793#comment-1424 Shivani, your comments at the OISL Discussion organised by CHRI on Tue 24/3/15 were very pertinent and interesting. As a fellow person of Sri Lankan heritage, it is interesting how your experience of seeking your Identity, whilst living in UK, is quite different from mine. I too was in Sri Lanka at the time of the 1983 Riots and helped and harboured several Tamils during the pogrom.
It was heartening to hear that you agree with stance that Sri Lanka needs to be given space to set up its own Domestic Inquiry in to the ending of the War in 2009, given that there is a new Sri Lankan Govt.
I too would agree that Sri Lanka does need to come to terms with the ending of the war, so that victims and their survivors can find out what happened. However it does concern me, that whilst justice is paramount, the need to heal and reconcile communities, must also continue apace, within the same current favourable political space. The time for ending divisiveness needs to take shape and should not wait for the state to act. It is even more disappointing to see that Tamil, Sinhalese and Muslim communites living in UK are so fractured.Surely enough time has elapsed since the ending of the War to allow British Sri Lankan communities to come together here, and by building alliances we may collectively set an example by supporting justice with peace and reconciliation, which may then have a positive reaction back home in Sri Lanka?

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