REPORT: UN’S PARTICIPATION IS NECESSARY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TJ MECHANISMS OF SRI-LANKA – NECC
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12/03/2018His Excellency the High Commissioner of Human Rights and to the participants of the 37th Sessions of the UN Human Rights Council!
UN’s Participation is Necessary in the Implementation of Transitional Justice Mechanisms of Sri-Lanka.
The Government of Sri Lanka cosponsored the Resolution 30/1 which was adopted in the United Nations Human Rights Council on 1 of October 2015[1]. As the Government of Sri Lanka has not duly fulfilled its commitments which are enshrined in the resolution 30/1, the council has given an extension for a period of two years to Sri Lankan government in March 2017 by adopting the resolution 34/1 [2] to fulfill its obligations. But there are no signs from the side of the government to fulfill these commitments. The proposed transitional justice institutions such as Office of the Missing Persons, justice mechanism, office for reparation and mechanisms that guarantees of non-recurrence have not yet come into effect. Basically, there is no evidence that the government has policy plans to implement these mechanisms comprehensively. The government is engaging in ad-hoc activities to satisfy the international community. Until to date the fundamental rights are challenged by the militarization and ethno-political institutions that continue to be exist in North and East of the country. This is basically paralyzing the social life of the communities of these areas.
