Call for international community to demand justice and accountability in Sri Lanka
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An open letter by 20 eminent persons to the 46th session of the Human Rights Council called on the international community to take immediate steps towards justice and accountability to end Sri Lankaâs continuing cycles of violence.
The recently released report on Sri Lanka by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights underlines, yet again, the countryâs lack of progress on justice and accountability. Based largely on an analysis of emerging trends, it makes a compelling case for decisive international action to ensure justice and accountability for mass human rights violations and atrocities in Sri Lanka as a central element of the search for sustained reconciliation and the prevention of the recurrence of rights abuses and conflict.
As the UN Human Rights Council begins its first meeting of 2021 in Geneva, high on its crowded agenda will be to decide whether to adopt a new resolution that maintains international oversight over Sri Lanka. The present one, adopted in 2015 but now expiring, won support from the Sri Lankan government of the time, which agreed to address the legacy of the country’s brutal civil war and its conclusion in a wave of atrocities in 2009. But Sri Lanka’s current government, led by the same nationalist politicians and generals who were in office at the war’s end, has rejected the truth and accountability agenda it inherited and is working hard to end the Council’s engagement. With options for truth and justice for wartime atrocities closed for now within Sri Lanka, the Council should adopt a new resolution that underscores the international interest in accountability. At the same time, the accountability agenda, which has dominated international discussions about post-war Sri Lanka
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New member appointed to Special Presidential Commission
New member appointed to Special Presidential Commission
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COLOMBO (News1st): Appeal Court judge Sobhitha Rajakaruna has been appointed to the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry on Political victimization that was appointed recently.
The latest appointment had been confirmed in a gazette notification published by President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
Sobhitha Rajakaruna has been appointed to the Special Presidential Commission to fill in the void created following the resignation of Ratnapriya Gurusinghe.
The Special Commission was appointed by the President to implement the recommendations and decisions made by the Presidential Commission that probe incidents of political victimization under the previous Government.
Former UN officials and independent experts call on the international community to take immediate steps towards justice and accountability to end Sri Lanka’s cycles of violence.
The recently released report on Sri Lanka by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights underlines, yet again, the country’s lack of progress on justice and accountability. Based largely on an analysis of emerging trends, it makes a compelling case for decisive international action to ensure justice and accountability for mass human rights violations and atrocities in Sri Lanka as a central element of the search for sustained reconciliation and the prevention of the recurrence of rights abuses and conflict.