Will UN Report bring Justice for Sri Lanka War Victims? Posted on September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 By Admin Will UN Report bring Justice for Sri Lanka War Victims? By Amantha Perera UNNICHCHI, Sri Lanka, 2 September 2015 (IRIN) – Thavarasa Utharai says she isn’t exactly sure where Geneva is, but she is anxiously awaiting a report soon to be made public in the Swiss city that is expected to expose war crimes committed during Sri Lanka’s civil war. After acceding to the Sri Lankan government’s request to delay the report by six months, the Geneva-based United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is scheduled to finally release the results of its investigation within the next two weeks. Victims like Utharai hope the report will provide information about family members who disappeared during Sri Lanka’s decades-long war, which pitted government forces against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (or Tamil Tigers). Both sides committed abuses. Read Full Article Uncategorized
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT -JUNE 2012 Posted on September 27, 2023 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: ASA 37/009/2012 13 June 2012 The Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka, June 2012 A statement for the June Human Rights Council Session Sri Lanka is not fulfilling many of its international human rights obligations. Impunity remains the norm for gross violations of human… Read More
War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka By Feizal Samath – Inter Press Service (IPS) Posted on September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 COLOMBO, May 11, 2012 (IPS) – On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka’s northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of thier husbands who disappeared or surrendered to the military as it moved in to mop up nearly three decades of armed Tamil separatism. “These… Read More
The UN’s ‘grave failure’ in Sri Lanka demands an Answer Posted on September 27, 2023 FRANCES HARRISON THE GLOBE AND MAIL Last updated Friday, Nov. 16 2012, 4:37 PM EST It’s been called Ban Ki-moon’s Rwanda moment: a little-reported war three years ago on a tiny Indian Ocean island where tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered, waiting for the United Nations to come and… Read More