The families of the “tens of thousands of missing who are unaccounted for are still suffering” despite a change of government in Sri Lanka, said Pasumai Thayagam, in a statement delivered to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week.
“The government of Sri Lanka was elected over a year ago with great hopes for significant improvement in human rights,” said the non-governmental organisation.
The statement went on to quote the International Truth and Justice Project, which said that “instead, one year after the change of government in Sri Lanka, the security forces continue to detain, torture and sexually violate Tamils in a network of sites across the island”.
Pasumai Thayagam went on to note that a range of issues remain unsolved including the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and “an all-Sinhalese military for which there is total impunity continues to be station in the Tamil areas”.
“A federal state to accommodate Tamil aspirations seems difficult to achieve,” it added.
The organisation concluded by saying Sri Lanka “must speedily fulfil commitments made to this body” and “provide transitional justice for past crimes and end the root causes of conflict”.
See the full statement here.
“The government of Sri Lanka was elected over a year ago with great hopes for significant improvement in human rights,” said the non-governmental organisation.
The statement went on to quote the International Truth and Justice Project, which said that “instead, one year after the change of government in Sri Lanka, the security forces continue to detain, torture and sexually violate Tamils in a network of sites across the island”.
Pasumai Thayagam went on to note that a range of issues remain unsolved including the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and “an all-Sinhalese military for which there is total impunity continues to be station in the Tamil areas”.
“A federal state to accommodate Tamil aspirations seems difficult to achieve,” it added.
The organisation concluded by saying Sri Lanka “must speedily fulfil commitments made to this body” and “provide transitional justice for past crimes and end the root causes of conflict”.
See the full statement here.