The humanitarian organisation, Action Against Hunger, has called on the United Nations to launch an independent investigation to finally bring those responsible for the murders of 17 aid workers, in 2006 to justice.
Six years after the organisation's team were executed at their offices, there remains to be any form of justice or accountability issued for these events. Despite three national investigations in Sri Lanka, the perpetrators are yet to be brought to justice.
Describing the insufficiency of the Sri Lankan national investigations, Action Against Hunger’s address to the UN stated that,
“Investigations in Sri Lanka have plagued with obstruction, interference of politics in the judiciary and a lack of transparency and independence.”
See full Action Against Hunger’s full statement here.
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