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'Sri Lanka joins ignominious ranks of Myanmar, Syria and North Korea' - HRW
28 February 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a statement detailing the repeated
failure of Sri Lanka to establish “a trustworthy domestic mechanism to
address impunity” and urged the UN Human Rights Council to "create an international accountability mechanism as a matter of urgency".
According to HRW, Sri Lanka has continued to fail to deliver meaningful
accountability due to ‘a lack of judicial independence, risk of
reprisals, political interference, and “the deep-seated and
institutionalised impunity that generates the risk of such violations
being repeated”’. HRW maintains that for these reasons a purely domestic
process is incapable of delivering on the UN mandate, stating that "there
is no prospect that yet another domestic commission will advance
justice for the tens of thousands summarily executed, tortured or
forcibly disappeared."
In their statement, the organisation also highlights how the recent
reelection of the Rajapaksa's, who have been directly implicated in war
crimes, further damages the prospect for accountability and justice. HRW
maintains that whilst the Rajapaksa’s have made clear their intention
to walk away from the UN resolution; this is not possible hence it
simply indicates an unwillingness to fulfil their commitments. In doing
so Sri Lanka "joined the
ignominious ranks of Myanmar, Syria and North Korea in refusing to
accept responsibility for grave human rights violations," it added.
HRW’s statement on Sri Lanka follows, their praise of the High
Commissioner for releasing a detailed list of companies directly
involved in supporting illegal Israeli occupations; as well as their
condemnation of China for denying the High Commissioner access to the
Xinjiang region where the Muslim Uighur population are reported to be
sent to reeducation and subject to human rights violations.
Read HRW’s statement here.
28 February 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a statement detailing the repeated
failure of Sri Lanka to establish “a trustworthy domestic mechanism to
address impunity” and urged the UN Human Rights Council to "create an international accountability mechanism as a matter of urgency".
According to HRW, Sri Lanka has continued to fail to deliver meaningful
accountability due to ‘a lack of judicial independence, risk of
reprisals, political interference, and “the deep-seated and
institutionalised impunity that generates the risk of such violations
being repeated”’. HRW maintains that for these reasons a purely domestic
process is incapable of delivering on the UN mandate, stating that "there
is no prospect that yet another domestic commission will advance
justice for the tens of thousands summarily executed, tortured or
forcibly disappeared."
In their statement, the organisation also highlights how the recent
reelection of the Rajapaksa's, who have been directly implicated in war
crimes, further damages the prospect for accountability and justice. HRW
maintains that whilst the Rajapaksa’s have made clear their intention
to walk away from the UN resolution; this is not possible hence it
simply indicates an unwillingness to fulfil their commitments. In doing
so Sri Lanka "joined the
ignominious ranks of Myanmar, Syria and North Korea in refusing to
accept responsibility for grave human rights violations," it added.
HRW’s statement on Sri Lanka follows, their praise of the High
Commissioner for releasing a detailed list of companies directly
involved in supporting illegal Israeli occupations; as well as their
condemnation of China for denying the High Commissioner access to the
Xinjiang region where the Muslim Uighur population are reported to be
sent to reeducation and subject to human rights violations.
Read HRW’s statement here.
