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Please tell us what you know on Sri Lanka
Dear Secretary-General,
Thank you for taking the important decision to set up a Panel of Experts to advise your office on accountability issues in Sri Lanka. This long-overdue mechanism must have the support of the international community to perform its important work towards ensuring accountability and justice for victims. To get this support the UN Panel report must be made public.
Since May 2009, Amnesty International has called for the United Nations to establish an independent international investigation in response to compelling evidence of war crimes and other human rights violations committed by both government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), particularly in the latter stages of the conflict when the government obstructed independent monitoring and reporting.
Almost two years after the end of the conflict the true extent of the violations remains hidden and justice is being denied.
We urge you to fulfil your commitment to accountability issues in Sri Lanka.
Please make the UN Panel report, submitted to your office on 12 April, public without delay.
Link:
http://amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/dear-un-secretary-general-tell-us-what-you-know-sri-lanka
UN says it can initiate action only with the consent and cooperation of Sri Lanka!
Did UN follow the same procedure in Bosnia?
Report by the UN panel on Tamil massacre in Sri Lanka indicts Sri Lanka stating that
‘ “an independent international mechanism” to investigate what it called credible allegations that both the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels committed serious violations, including some that could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, in the months before the decades-long war ended in May 2009…