As Ban
Comments on
Saudi
Beheading of
Sri Lankan,
Nothing
on Impeachment
By
Matthew
Russell
UNITED
NATIONS,
January 11 --
This week UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesperson
Martin Nesirky
has been asked
at least two
questions
related to Sri
Lanka.
One was
answered two
days after it
was asked;
on the other,
the
impeachment of
the country's
chief justice,
Nesirky
on January 11
said he has no
comment.
On
January 9,
Inner City
Press asked
Nesirky, "Any
comment on
Saudi
Arabia's
execution of
Sri Lankan
migrant / maid
Rizana Nafiq?"
Neither
that
day nor the
next did an
answer come
back. But
after the noon
briefing on
Friday, when
Nesirky told
Inner City
Press "no
comment" to
the
impeachment of
Chief Justice
Shirani
Bandaranayake,
Nesirky's
office sent
out the
following
From:
UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at] un.org
Date: Fri, Jan
11, 2013
at 12:56 PM
Subject: Note
to
correspondents
-- on the
execution of
a Sri Lankan
worker in
Saudi Arabia
The
Secretary-General
is dismayed by
the execution
this week in
Saudi
Arabia of Ms.
Rizana Nafeek,
a young Sri
Lankan
domestic
worker. He
is concerned
about reports
of
irregularities
in her
detention and
trial, as well
as the
increase in
the use of
capital
punishment in
Saudi Arabia.
He insists on
the
application of
international
human
rights law,
including the
right to a
fair trial,
for all men
and
women in Saudi
Arabia,
irrespectively
of their
migration
status or
nationality.
Currently, in
Saudi Arabia,
women do not
have equal
access to the
courts or an
equal
opportunity to
obtain
justice. The
Secretary-General
is concerned
that this is a
situation
which is even
more
precarious for
women migrant
workers given
their foreign
status.
OK.
But why not
comment on the
impeachment of
Chief Justice
Shirani
Bandaranayake?
Watch this
site.
Footnote:
it
has been
reported that
Shavendra
Silva, who
despite his
record was
accepted on
Ban Ki-moon's
and Herve
Ladsous'
Senior
Advisory Group
on
Peacekeeping
Operations and
even
personally
visited
Ladsous'
mission
in Lebanon,
has been
called back to
Colombo to
handle crowd
control
in the wake of
the
impeachment.
Since it was
also reported
that Silva
was going to
South Africa,
then that he
was blocked
due to his
record, we
will seek more
information --
and the SAG
report. Watch
this site.
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