20 Jun 2007

Sri Lanka's Human Rights Crisis - Asia Report No.135 - 14 June 2007
International Crisis Group (ICG), Brussels, Belgium
Supplied note: "Colombo/Brussels, 14 June 2007: The international community must press the warring sides for urgent action to address wide-spread human rights abuses in Sri Lanka as a first step to restoring a climate in which the long conflict can ultimately be resolved. 'Sri Lanka's Human Rights Crisis' - the latest report from the ICG See URL [below. For full report in PDF format, 720KB, see at http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/sri_lanka/135_sri_lanka_s_human_rights_crisis.pdf - ed.] International Crisis Group, examines abuses committed by both the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) since they resumed their war in 2006. While the LTTE has continued its deliberately provocative attacks on the military and Sinhalese civilians as well as its violent repression of Tamil dissenters and forced recruitment of adults and children, the government is using extra-judicial killings and disappearances as part of a brutal and counter-productive counter-insurgency campaign. - icg."
Site contents: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS. I. INTRODUCTION. II. HOW NOT TO FIGHT AN INSURGENCY. III. A SHORT HISTORY OF IMPUNITY. IV. HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEW WAR. V. THE STATE RESPONSE. VI. THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. VII. HALTING THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL . A. THE GOVERNMENT'S CHALLENGE. 1. The seventeenth amendment. 2. The emergency regulations. 3. Paramilitaries. 4. Extrajudicial killings and abductions. 5. Longer-term legal and institutional reforms. B. THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY. C. INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES. 1. UN mechanisms. 2. Pressure on child soldiers. 3. Pressuring the LTTE. VIII. CONCLUSION. APPENDICES. A. MAP OF SRI LANKA. B. ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP. C. INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP REPORTS AND BRIEFINGS ON ASIA. D. INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
[The International Crisis Group (www.crisisgroup.org) is an independent, non-profit, NGO covering over 50 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean), working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict - ed.]
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