Failure to Follow Up Would Be Shameful
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011When a UN Panel of Experts report concludes up to 40,000 civilians died amid war crimes, the Human Rights Council should feel compelled to act. The council should order a full international investigation – anything less would be a shameful abdication of responsibility.
(Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council should act on the recommendations in a report commissioned by the UN Secretary-General detailing grave abuses during the final months of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent the report to the council on September 12, 2011. Ban has said that he would welcome a mandate to establish an international investigation mechanism, the main recommendation of his Panel of Experts report.Full Story>>>
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Ban forwards report on Sri Lanka war crimes to top UN human rights body
IDP settlement near Putumattalan Hospital in second No Fire Zone, March 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent the report of his panel of experts on accountability issues during the final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka to the United Nations human rights chief and the President of the Human Rights Council.
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Canada seeks Sri Lanka boycott at Commonwealth meeting
THE AUSTRALIAN September 14, 2011
CANADIAN Prime Minister Stephen Harper has set the scene for a strained Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth next month, vowing to push for a boycott of a 2013 summit in Sri Lanka unless it improves its human rights record.
Mr Harper backed an independent investigation into alleged war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan army in the final phase of the 26-year civil war with the Tamil Tiger guerillas. The Sri Lankan government inched closer to a possible inquiry yesterday after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon referred a damning report on alleged human rights abuses and war crimes to the Human Rights Council. Full Story>>>
