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Sri Lanka govt ‘aggressively attacking efforts’ to address rights abuses Sri Lanka’s government is aggressively attacking efforts to hold officials to account for past grave abuses, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a new report.The 93-page report, “Open Wounds and Mounting Dangers: Blocking Accountability for Grave Abuses in Sri Lanka,” examines efforts by the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to thwart justice in seven prominent human rights cases.The report released Feb...

UN Human Rights Council Should Pursue Accountability (Lanka-e-News -02.Feb.2021, 1.45PM) Sri Lanka’s government is aggressively attacking efforts to hold officials to account for past grave abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday(01). The 93-page report, “Open Wounds and Mounting Dangers: Blocking Accountability for Grave Abuses in Sri Lanka,” examines efforts by the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to thwart justice in seven prominent human rights cases. ...

Shreen Saroor NEW DELHI, India, Feb 1 2021 (IPS) - A decade has passed since the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war between the government and the LTTE, where at least 100,000 people were killed in the over three-decade long conflict. Families of victims of enforced disappearances continue to seek justice, the government is yet to end impunity and put accountability for crimes under international law and human rights violation and abuses in its transitional justice process. In a recent United Nati...

International and local human rights advocates urged the UN Human Rights Council’s Core Group for Sri Lanka not to be fooled into presenting a consensual resolution at the forthcoming Human Rights Council sessions that begin later this month. The Core Group consisting of Canada, Germany, North Macedonia, Montenegro and the UK is responsible for drawing up a new resolution on Sri Lanka to be presented at the sessions. Addressing a news conference to launch the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report o...