Sri Lanka to stop involuntary registration
March 4, 2011 07:42 am
The Sri Lankan government on Thursday pledged in court to abandon an operation to make the northern Jaffna residents register with the authorities.
The main Tamil political party Tamil National Alliance’s Jaffna district
parliamentarians had filed a fundamental rights petition claiming the move was
discriminatory of the Jaffna residents.
The MPs told the court that Jaffna residents had been asked to fill
registration forms in the Sinhala language with themselves being photographed
by the security authorities.
The TNA said the move contravened the equality of all before the law.
The state attorney at this stage informed the Supreme Court that the Jaffna
authorities had agreed to stop the operation with immediate effect, Xinhua
reports.