Pillay reiterates call for international probe on SL

Saturday, 08 March 2014 

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has reiterated her call in her final annual report as High Commissioner for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to set up an international inquiry mechanism into Sri Lanka.

The annual report was presented to the 25th session of UNHRC in Geneva.

Pillay has noted that nearly five years after the end of the conflict, the Sri Lankan government has failed to satisfy the Council’s call for a credible and independent investigation into allegations of serious human rights violations.

“I therefore recommend that the time has come for the Council to establish its own international inquiry mechanism which I believe can play a positive role where domestic mechanisms have failed,” she has said.