War crimes and dispossession in Sri Lanka: Open letter to visiting UN human rights commissioner
| AUGUST 26, 2013
Dear Dr. Pillay,
With your visit to Sri Lanka from August 25th-31st, we urge you, as global citizens concerned with the deteriorating situation in the island, to investigate militarization, settlements, and the systematic rape of Tamil prisoners of war. These three issues, the most immediate threats to peace and justice today, lay new seeds of dispossession, inequality and bitterness. Ultimately, an international investigation cannot delink the 2009 massacres from the ongoing suffering of the Tamil people in the here and now.
