BTF: Arrest of disappearances campaigners underscores need for strong UNHRC resolution
Calling on the UN Human Rights Council member states to ensure an international investigation with "real authority and clout" is established, the BTF said,
"The actions of the Sri Lankan state are all the more brazen given their timing. Sri Lanka is currently coming under intense scrutiny at the 25th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and yet these arrests show it no longer has any concern over its international image and, more worryingly, indicate that Sri Lanka does not expect the international community to take any concrete action to arrest its ongoing persecution of Tamils."




