The Northern Provincial Council passed a resolution calling on the Sri Lankan government to allow United Nations investigators into the country, in order to carry out a probe into mass atrocities.
The resolution, which was adopted on Wednesday, said,
“This Council calls upon the Government of Sri Lanka to cooperate with the UN and allow the UN’s OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) team to enter the country to perform its mandate of comprehensively investigating the alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights, and crimes.”
Sri Lanka has so far refused to co-operate with the United Nations investigation and denied visas to the investigative team.
The resolution comes after councillors from both the Northern and Eastern Provincial Councils adopted a motion which called for the UN to investigate the charge of genocide.
See more in our earlier post:
Northern and Eastern Provincial Council members call for UN to investigate genocide (18 August 2014
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