Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday said that if the party manages to form a government in the future, they would present a resolution to the United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) to counter the resolution that Sri Lanka co-sponsored in 2015.
Joint Opposition front-liner Dr Bandula Gunawardena has protested against the purported decision by the Government to permit private schools to open five branches, each claiming that the decision would be detrimental to the free education.'
MP Gunawardena who is also a former Education Minister under President Mahinda Rajapaksa is of the opinion that Government’s move would encourage the private education in the country and that would ultimately lead to the death of the free education in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka’s human rights issue vis-à-vis its war against LTTE separatism will once more crop up at Geneva on 20 March.
Sri Lanka at Geneva on 1 October, 2015 gave a commitment to the international community that it will pave the way for a probe into alleged human rights (HR) abuse in the prosecution of this war with the aid of international jurists.