Sri Lanka: end impunity for human rights violations
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said last Tuesday that no one should be above the law, including members of the police or armed forces. This follows a widely publicized incident last week in Sri Lanka: two youths were arrested by the police on August 12 and their bullet-ridden bodies were discovered the next day. The killings sparked public anger and riots against the police. Several police officers have since been arrested in connection with the murders.
I dearly hope justice is done in this case and the killers held accountable. But there remain thousands of cases of human rights violations by the Sri Lankan security forces, including the police, where no one has been prosecuted or convicted. The recent Amnesty International report on presidential commissions of inquiry in Sri Lanka details the government’s failure to deliver justice for serious human rights violations for decades. I hope President Rajapaksa’s recent statement will lead to a serious, sustained effort by the Sri Lankan government to bring perpetrators of human rights violations to justice at last. The ongoing impunity enjoyed by the security forces for past violations must end.
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Tags: amnesty international, amnesty report, human rights, human rights violations, impunity, police, police brutality, President Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Human Rights
August 21st, 2009 at 1:57 am
President Rajapaksa,
I am from vancouver,canada and im concerned about how the Tamal people in Sri Lanka are been treated.They should be allowed to live where ever they wants to and all political prisoners should be set free.At the present time there are thousands of Tamal people living in prison camps similar to the consentration camps that were in nazis Germany during the second world war.This is deplorable for people to have to go through this day in age.There should be a stop to this atrocity immediately.
Stan Squires
September 21st, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Horrific pictures of torture, rape and murder of female combatants who surrendered to brutal Sri Lankan Army
http://www.warwithoutwitness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=226:sri-lankan-army-war-crime-evidence-photo-srilankan-army-sexually-abusing-tamil-female-combatants-during-bloody-blood-bath-on-vanni-beaches&catid=40:photo
SriLankan Army Sexually Abusing Tamil Female Combatants during bloody blood bath on vanni beaches on mid may 2009. These photos have been shot by Sri Lankan Army soldiers by Mobile Cameras ( K310i , W2001 and 5300 ) and released in a local sri lankan website as part of Sri Lankan Army Victory Campaign. These collection of photographs & Videos covers different incidents and different victims. The common thread among them is the sexual violence that had been practiced as a war strategy by Sri Lankan Government. It is clear evidence that sexual violence was a tool in the genocidal war and constitutes a war crime.
January 1st, 2010 at 12:53 am
Human right violation from 1956
http://www.nesohr.org/hrr/
Tamil genocide, give many links for media coverage
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/sri-lanka/TC70A5EDNMP25J14C
January 5th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
What happened to Aid workers?
Sri Lanka’s Dirty War – Sri Lanka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poYN8ikai60
ACF quits, says no confidence in SL’s investigations into massacre
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=26051
January 5th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Still no inquiry, why world leaders can’t do anything?
Is this evidence of Sri Lankan ‘war crimes’? (VIDEO UPDATED)
http://www.lankasrinews.net/view.php?2bIOo6e0dnlYe0ecLB443a4J5AI4d3cYd3cc2AmT3d434OX3a030Mm3e
War-crime allegations piling up in Sri Lanka
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100101/FOREIGN/701019705/1103/rss