Sri Lanka: The need to address persistent impunity for violations and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law

Index Number: ASA 37/002/2011
Date Published: 24 February 2011
Categories: Sri Lanka
In this written statement to the sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council Amnesty International expresses its concern that Sri Lanka’s human rights record has not improved since the organization last addressed this Council in May 2010. Impunity persists for past violations and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law, and new and serious violations of human rights continue to be reported.

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