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lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2013-12-12-Speech-4-532-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Murphy2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, let us not accept the line of the right wing in this Parliament that wants to blame the Tamil-speaking people around the world for the ongoing and very serious human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. It is correct that they are back at the centre of world attention. Human rights groups were correct to raise concerns about the authority the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting would give to the Rajapaksa regime, because government leaders – like Cameron in Britain – are ready to turn a blind eye to the human rights situation in order to defend and advance their own economic interests. It is more than four years since the end of a bloody and brutal civil war, it is more than four years since the genocidal slaughtering of up to 70 000 Tamil-speaking people at the end of that war, and there has still been no credible, transparent and full investigation into the war crimes of the Sri Lankan Government. Impunity prevails, in particular when it comes to the government and military officials. The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee (LLRC) is as much of a whitewash as the government could get away with, and even the limited recommendations of the LLRC have still not been implemented. An independent, international inquiry is long overdue and should be set up as speedily as possible. It should be accountable to the victims and their families. The Tamil-speaking community has already been failed by the UN. It cannot rely on the so-called international community to bring peace or to bring justice. They need to continue to organise themselves in the struggle for justice in groups like Tamil Solidarity."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))."1 "Paul Murphy,"1 "author"1
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