Domestic inquiries into extrajudicial killings insufficient, UN expert stresses(Sri Lanka)

Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions 3 June 2010 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today stressed the need for international inquiries into serious allegations of extrajudicial executions in cases where national probes have been insufficient, citing examples relating to the Gaza Strip and Sri Lanka. In many instances, domestic commissions of inquiry had only resulted in “comprehensive impunity,” Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said as he presented his annual report to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (HRC). http://www0.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34905&Cr=alston&Cr1