As reported previously, the end of the civil war in 2009 did not bring an end to the climate of repression for human rights and labour activists in Sri Lanka. A new report by a UK Human Rights Committee has once again highlighted the terrible situation for anyone that the Government wants to target. People are subjected to a campaign of persecution using abduction, arbitrary detention, torture, rape and sexual violence. In an unrelated move, the United Nation’s Human Rights Council has approved a motion to investigate war crimes during the final months of the Government’s offensive against the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
As reported previously, the end of the civil war in 2009 did not bring an end to the climate of repression for human rights and labour activists in Sri Lanka. A new report by a UK Human Rights Committee has once again highlighted the terrible situation for anyone that the Government wants to target. People are subjected to a campaign of persecution using abduction, arbitrary detention, torture, rape and sexual violence. In an unrelated move, the United Nation’s Human Rights Council has approved a motion to investigate war crimes during the final months of the Government’s offensive against the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
