2 sources
Sri Lanka must accelerate justice for past abuses: HRW
The Sri Lankan government's prosecution of past grave abuses has lagged, raising concerns for future progress, Human Rights Watch said
Summary
"The Dissanayake administration needs to break from past government practice of delaying and denying justice for grave abuses," said Lucy McKernan, UN Human Rights Council director at Human Rights Watch. The Dissanayake government has not accepted the Sri Lanka Accountability Project, established by the UN Human Rights Council to collect evidence of serious rights abuses.
What this story is about
People
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake2
- Lasantha Wickrematunge2
- Lucy McKernan2
Organisations
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam2
- UN Human Rights Council2
- Human Rights Watch2
- United Nations2
- Dissanayake2
Places
- Sri Lanka2
- Chemmani2
- Jaffna2
Keywords
- abuses2
- lagged2
- past2
- hrw2
- prosecution
- accelerate
- government
- practice
- justice
- raising
Names and places drawn from every article in this story. The number shows how many of them mentioned it.
Share this story
Send the whole picture, not one version of it.
Also reported by
2 newsrooms have reported this story
Full coverage