Printer-Friendly Version. A human rights organisation will look into instruments of international law and see how the articles are violated and how international obligations and standards have been breached. The recommendations of the human rights organisation will then be based on these factors. In the reports published by Jo Becker in the name of HRW, the recommendations diverge widely from these principles. The reports in fact, give a strong impression to a general reader that there is a political agenda behind them.
D - War in Sri Lanka. G - Paragraph i to iii. Pre-Planned publicity Confusion about author Diaspora Tamils — harassed, arbitrary arrested and detained Only four cases with details Do email and telephone interviews have credibility? Jo Becker is the author of both reports. According to international human rights standards, any cases of violations complained of, or reported by, individuals, organisations and others should have the following details:.
Any case which is short of answers to at least the first four of the above questions is not considered for processing under international human rights mechanisms. This is one of the reasons that even though genocide has been carried out by the Sri Lankan security forces, the victims Tamils find it difficult to process all the cases. Organisations like Human Rights Watch HRW and anyone with broad experience regarding international human rights standards, international law and legal standards cannot ignore these principles when reporting on human rights violations Responsible organisations working on human rights do not write reports like propagandists, columnists, and fiction writers.
They will always consider their credibility when reporting Usually the recommendations put forward by a human rights organisation are based on the improvement of legal matters concerning the violating party, within the framework of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law. The party may be government security forces or non state actors in UN terminology. But in the reports published by Jo Becker in the name of HRW, the recommendations diverge widely from these principles.
The recommendations in both reports are highly political. It is not in the role of a human rights organisation to make such statements.
