Sri Lanka: Comply with Rights Council Investigation

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/19/sri-lanka-comply-rights-council-investigation

No Justice for Abuses in 5 Years Since Conflict’s End

MAY 20, 2014

(New York) – The Sri Lankan government should comply with the March 2014 United Nations Human Rights Council resolution creating an international investigation into allegations of serious abuses by both sides during Sri Lanka’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today. The resolution calls on the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate violations of the laws of war and serious human rights violations. The week of May 18 marks the fifth anniversary of the end of the conflict that resulted in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).