To be blunt, the moment for the Commonwealth to act and be an effective sort of check or prompt on the government in Sri Lanka to improve its human rights behaviour, I think, has passed. The moment was in the run-up to CHOGM or at CHOGM, and unfortunately, very few other governments took Canada's lead. Mauritius did. In India, the Indian Prime Minister held back on going. There was some other grumbling and the British Prime Minister also went to Sri Lanka but was very active and forceful in his criticisms of the Sri Lanka government on human rights issues. But I think the Commonwealth is not the vehicle that is going to be an effective one, in this case.
On February 13th, 2014. See this statement in context.