The Trump administration in the United States, in withdrawing from the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Commission last June, has given a signal to a South Asian nation – Sri Lanka – once during the previous Obama administration’s liberal-controlled state department headed by its secretary Hillary Clinton infringed in its sovereignty in hauling to UNHRC imposing global scrutiny on its execution of the ‘war on terror’: Continued membership in the UNHRC means abdicating a nation’s sovereignty.