"Mr John Cushnahan, head of the European Union
Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Sri Lanka warned on 28
November that if the Sri Lankan government did not
implement its recommendations it had made during its three
previous missions to Sri Lanka, the EU is likely to reject any
future requests from Sri Lanka for election observation, during
a packed press conference in Trans Asia Hotel in Colombo. “It
has to be said that the EU is clearly frustrated with the lack
of follow up to our previous election observation missions. None
of the key recommendations for the three previous missions to
strengthen the democratic process have been implemented. They
have merely been left on the shelf gathering dust,” Mr.Cushnahan
said." -
EU Election Observation mission in jeopardy, if Colombo ignores
recommendations- Cushnahan, 28 October 2005
"...The progressive destruction of the political process in Sri Lanka has
led to both domestic and international tolerance of an enormous amount
of violence by the government (regardless of party affiliation) against
its citizens. Increasingly, it seems that the government of Sri Lanka
is accountable to no one - not its citizens, and not its foreign
counterparts who rubber-stamped the recent parliamentary elections. In
Sri Lanka's current political climate, power seems to be determined by
the number of thugs a given politician has at his/her disposal..."
Sri
Lanka's Elections 2000: Fear and Intimidation Rule the Day - An Observer's
Report - Laura Gross
