UN WGIFD ON SRI LANKA: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

( Family members of the disappeared march in Colombo on 30 Aug 2016 photo ©s.deshapriya)
Conclusions.

14/09/2016

70. The Government’s invitation to the Working Group and its increasing openness to international engagement are very positive and encouraging steps. Today, the challenge facing the Government of Sri Lanka is to transform its promises into a concrete, comprehensive, legitimate and participatory framework aimed at securing the rights to truth, justice, reparation and memory, and guarantees of non-repetition for the families of the disappeared and Sri Lankan society as a whole, in the context of a reconciliation process.

71. It is encouraging that the Government is proposing a comprehensive public policy to deal with prevention, investigations, sanctions and reparation for the victims of enforced disappearances.

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