SRI LANKA: The Island of mass graves
The following article was published as the editorial of the latest issue of Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa-June 3, 2014
Sri Lanka is once again on the edge of a political crucible in terms of its international relations as well as in its domestic politics. The country is ignoring calls for an independent and credible investigation into alleged wartime atrocities while at the same time carrying out atrocities against its own people.None of the elected or appointed officials have been able to fulfil even the basic requirements of their offices, but instead put all their efforts into finding loopholes to escape the situation and to justify what they have done.
