Un Resolution On War Crimes

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  India Abstains From UN Vote On Resolution Extending Probe Into Ukraine War

  India has abstained from voting on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution for an extension of the mandate of the investigation into alleged war crimes by a year.

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  Act on UN Resolution on Sri Lanka: Jayalalithaa Urges PM Narendra Modi

  Hours after getting a resolution passed in the Assembly today on the Sri Lankan issue, seeking an international probe into allegations of war crimes in that country, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa urged PM Modi to take immediate action over it.

• Action against us unnecessary: Sri Lanka's envoy on UN resolution

  India yesterday abstained from the vote at the United Nations session in Geneva which calls for an international investigation into alleged war crimes in the final stage of the island's civil war which ended in 2009.

• India should have supported UN resolution against Sri Lanka: Chidambaram

  A day after India chose to abstain from voting on a United Nations resolution against Sri Lanka that sought an international investigation into the alleged war crimes during the final phase of the island's civil war which ended in 2009, Union Minister P Chidambaram said "personally, I feel India should have supported the resolution."

• India votes against Sri Lanka, but skips amendments to US-backed resolution at UNHRC

  India has voted for the resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva. 25 countries have voted for the US-backed resolution that addresses alleged war crimes by Lankan forces during the country's civil war with the Tamil Tigers. India has called for an "independent and credible investigation into allegations of human...

• Mamata Banerjee supports Govt stand in Geneva: Full statement

  Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who quit the ruling coalition last year, has shown support for the government on whatever stand it takes at Geneva, where a resolution on alleged war crimes by Sri Lanka will be put to vote tomorrow.

• Surprise support from Mamata Banerjee for government on Sri Lanka controversy

  Mamata Banerjee, who quit the ruling coalition last year, has said she will back the government on whatever stand it takes at Geneva, where a resolution on alleged war crimes by Sri Lanka will be put to vote tomorrow.

• Diluted US resolution against Sri Lanka forced DMK to act

  The DMK, which quit the government this morning, has said two moves by the government could help it reconsider. Firstly, it wants India to introduce strong language in a US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Secondly, the DMK wants the Indian Parliament to adopt a resolution against Sri Lank...

• No international probe mandated in revised US resolution on Sri Lanka

  The revised draft of the US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN human rights body's Geneva session does not mandate an international probe into alleged war crimes and human rights violations during Sri Lanka's lengthy civil war with Tamil rebels.

• DMK quit UPA because it "had no choice": Kanimozhi

  DMK chief M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi has said her party pulled out of the Congress-led ruling coalition in protest against the government's position on a United Nations resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka because it "had no choice."

• DMK quits UPA government over Sri Lanka issue: 10 big developments

  The DMK has pulled out of the Congress-led UPA coalition in protest against the government's position on a US-backed United Nations resolution on alleged war crimes carried out during Sri Lanka's civil war.

• Lanka resolution: DMK set to stall Parliament today

  The DMK is set to stall Parliament today over the upcoming US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Commission, after reports suggest that the resolution will not call for an international probe into alleged war crimes and human rights abuses by Sri Lanka as it wound down its decades-long civil war against the Liberation Tigers o...

• Trio of ministers meet Karunanidhi to broker peace over Sri Lanka

  The Centre is under extreme pressure to vote against Sri Lanka on March 21, when the United Nations' top human rights body meets in Geneva. The US is moving a resolution that is expected to criticize Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes and human rights violations by its defence forces in the final phases of the civil war against the Tamil Tigers which...

• Hundreds of students arrested in Chennai for anti-Lanka protests

  Hundreds of students taking part in anti-Lanka protests were arrested in Chennai today when they tried to lay siege on the Raj Bhavan. They are demanding that India move a resolution against Sri Lanka -- for alleged war crimes against its Tamil population -- at the UN's human rights body meet in Geneva.

• Students on hunger strike demand India should vote against Sri Lanka at UN meet

  Protests by college students in Tamil Nadu on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue continued today in a bid to mount pressure on India to vote against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council meet in Geneva later this month. Several political parties, including the Congress, have already asked the Centre to support the US-sponsored resolution against Sri La...