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GENEVA (27 January 2021) – A new UN report published on Wednesday warns that the failure of Sri Lanka to address past violations has significantly heightened the risk of human rights violations being repeated. It highlights what it calls worrying trends over the past year such as deepening impunity, increasing militarization of governmental functions, ethno-nationalist rhetoric, and intimidation of civil society. Nearly 12 years after the armed conflict in Sri Lanka ended, impunity for grave human rights violations and abuses by all sides is more entrenched than ever, with the current Gove...
English News and Press Release on Sri Lanka about Protection and Human Rights; published on 27 Jan 2021 by UN HRC
GENEVA (27 January 2021) – A new UN report published on Wednesday warns that the failure of Sri Lanka to address past violations has significantly heightened the risk of human rights violations being repeated. It highlights worrying trends over the past year, such as deepening impunity, increasing militarization of governmental functions, ethno-nationalist rhetoric, and intimidation of civil society. Nearly 12 years after the armed conflict in Sri Lanka ended, impunity for grave human rights violations and abuses by all sides is more entrenched than ever, with the current Governmen...
Share: Colombo (News 1st); Ex-Director of the Criminal Investigations Department Shani Abeysekera provided evidence to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 April 21st Attacks, for the first time on Monday (25). Abeysekera is held in remand custody and provided evidence from the National Hospital in Colombo via video technology. Shani Abeysekera in his testimony said the investigations carried out following the 2019 April 21st Attacks revealed that the information passed on by Military Intelligence & State Intelligence Service on the killing of two police officers in Batti...