By Sam Rajappa -Posted 19 Sep 2015
The much-awaited report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Investigations on Sri Lanka (OISL) released in Geneva on 16 September has identified war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2011 by both sides to the conflict. 
“For an accountability mechanism to succeed in Sri Lanka, it will require more than a domestic mechanism,” the report said. The report was compiled by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, assisted by Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, Dame Silvia Cartwright, former New Zealand High Court Judge, and Asma Jahangir, former chief of Pakistan Human Rights Commission. | Sign of the times: A Sinhala-only signboard in a Tamil area |
