[TamilNet, Thursday, 21 March 2013, 00:01 GMT]
Commenting on the draft resolution being circulated by the United States at the the Geneva sessions of the UNHCR, Francis Boyle, Professor at the School of Law, University of Illinois and an expert in international law said that UNHCR and its member states, by adopting the draft resolution (3rd draft) will be abetting the on-going systematic structural genocide in vilolation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. The vote on Sri Lanka resolution is likely to take place as early as Thursday in Geneva, according to sources in Geneva.

Full text of Prof. Boyle's comment follows:

"Text of the By means of adopting this draft Resolution, the U.N. Human Rights Council and its Member States will thereby further whitewash and “bluewash” and facilitate and aid and abet the ongoing campaign of genocide by the GOSL against the Tamils in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention and in particular but not limited to their article 1 obligation “to prevent and to punish” genocide as well as their article 3(e) obligation that prohibits and criminalizes “complicity in genocide.”"

The US-sponsored draft resolution "calls" the Sri Lankan government to conduct an "independent and credible" investigation into allegations of human rights violations. The draft resolution has not ceded to demands of human rights bodies for an independent international investigation, as being called by the Commissioner Navi Pillay's report.

Students in TamilNadu, and in a few major cities outside Tamil Nadu, are continuing to hold mass demonstrations and hunger strike protesting the resolution.