‘India has blood on its hands in Sri Lanka as well’: says a former Indian diplomat

Describing the findings of the OHCHR’s investigation report on Sri Lanka as ‘ cautious’ ,  Satyabrata Pal,  a former Indian diplomat, who  served as India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan, and as a member of the National Human Rights Commission, said “India has blood on its hands in Sri Lanka as well”.

“A remarkable book just published – Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters by Kishalay Bhattacharjee – has confirmed that our suspicions were justified. His interviews with army and police officers show, sadly and shamefully, that in India’s conflict zones, these crimes were indeed standard operating procedure. Whether the families of the victims, or the survivors, will ever find justice, when the state refuses to acknowledge that these enormous crimes were committed, is moot.   That is a battle which must be fought. But India has blood on its hands in Sri Lanka as well. Unless it helps, belatedly, to make amends there, they will never be clean.” Satyabrata Pal said in an article written  for ‘The Wire’.

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 Sri Lanka, and India too, Must Account for Letting Slip the Dogs of War