UN Rights Chief Urges Sri Lanka To Ensure Accountability For Wartime Atrocities
The United Nations human rights chief urged Sri Lanka on Tuesday to ensure accountability for crimes committed during its protracted ethnic war.
Volker Turk told a panel discussion in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo that the country must address the question of impunity during the Tamil separatist war, which was brought to a bloody conclusion in 2009.
The UN has estimated that 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed by government forces in the final months of its battle to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels, who had fought for independence.
Successive Sri Lankan governments have resisted calls for internationally backed independent investigations into horrific rights abuses, while several high-profile massacres of civilians remain Разрешен.
Турк сподели, че Шри Ланка сега е в „ Капан за безотговорност “, защото страната се появява от стопански срив през 2022 година suffered inconceivable pain and loss, and vital for the future. "
Sri Lanka is " recovering f...
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