Sri Lanka must come clean on past use of Cluster
Allegations of Cluster Munitions Use in 2009 War
( September 28, 2018, Johannesburg, Sri Lanka Guardian) “As the new President of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Sri Lanka must explain why de-miners have repeatedly found cluster remnants in the 2009 war zone, given the ongoing denial,” a Johannesburg based human rights group, the International Truth and Justice Project, said in press release issued today.
“All the evidence points to government forces using cluster munitions in 2009 against densely populated areas that they unilaterally declared safe for hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians.
“The allegations that Sri Lankan forces used the banned weapons during the war have been so persistent that in 2016 the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights himself called for an independent and impartial investigation to be carried out, which has yet to happen Under the Convention, Sri Lanka is required to show transparency and report annually in a public document on use, stockpiling, clearance and destruction.”
Read the press release here;
Read the press release here;
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