Monday, August 24, 2009

In Sri Lanka, Death Threats Over Speaking on EU's GSP Plus Tariff Treatment, Silence at UN

A Sri Lankan academic and human rights activist faces death threats for allegedly providing information about the situation in Sri Lanka which might force the European Union not to continue its tariff free treatment of Sri Lankan textiles under the so called GSP Plus program. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu of the Centre for Policy Alternatives received the death threat, reproduced below, last week. The UN Security Council, which despite the UK's claim to have had the votes to put Sri Lanka on the agenda didn't, has not spoken on the death threat, nor on the worsening conditions in the internment camps for Tamils which the UN is funding.

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