In a statement released today on Sri Lanka, Amnesty International, condemned Sri Lanka’s use of ‘dirty tactics’ to evade international scrutiny.
Amnesty International’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Peter Splinter, said,
“Sri Lanka must put an end to the campaign of intimidation and dirty tactics against outspoken human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and families of the disappeared.”
Condemning Sri Lanka’s labeling of activists as terrorist sympathisers, splinter further outlined,
“These are preposterous allegations, and they show the lengths to which the Sri Lankan government will go to bury the truth and sully the names of its critics. Using the world stage to smear peaceful rights activists puts Sri Lanka in the company of a small club of repressive authoritarian states.”