Last fall, I told you about “Silenced Shadows” – a poetry competition that Amnesty was launching in Sri Lanka on the theme of enforced disappearances. Sri Lanka has experienced at least 80,000 cases of enforced disappearances over the past 30 years.
Sri Lanka’s human rights record and shameful practices of arbitrary detention aren’t in the news these days, but that will change with a UN meeting on Nov 1.
As the UN scrutinizes Sri Lanka’s human rights record this fall, we have a chance to expose and bring to an end Sri Lanka’s shameful detentions without trial.
A look at India’s vote on the Sri Lanka resolution in the UN Human Rights Council.
A new Amnesty International report documents how arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances have become routine in Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan government’s new report on its civil war is inadequate. An international investigation into war crimes is still needed to ensure truth and justice for the victims and their families.
A new documentary about the final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war provides powerful new evidence of the need for an international investigation into war crimes and other human rights abuses.
This week marks the second anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war, between government forces and the opposition Tamil Tigers. The Tigers were seeking an independent state for the Tamil minority on the island. There are credible reports that both sides committed gross abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law, including war crimes. Yet no one has been held accountable for these crimes.
A new UN report gives credibility to claims that both sides committed war crimes in Sri Lanka’s civil war.
A UN report on accountability for war crimes committed in the Sri Lankan armed conflict must be made public.