Report – Cycles of Violence in Sri Lanka: A Crisis of Accountability

Sri Lanka’s Accountability Crisis: Part 2 of 3 This is the second of a 3-part series of essays and reports which the Sri Lanka Campaign will be publishing in the coming weeks, ahead of the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Right’s statement on accountability in...

Reflections on the resolution on Sri Lanka

Now that the Resolution on Sri Lanka has passed, it is a good time to reflect on the Sri Lankan Government’s stance and the untruths it continues to assert. On the opening day of the session, many member states addressed the Council, including the representative for...

An open letter to Ban ki-Moon

SECRETARY-GENERAL UNITED NATIONS NEW YORK, NY 10017 Dear Secretary-General, I write to follow up my letter of 2 June 2011 on the subject of the United Nations Panel of Experts’ reporton accountability issues in Sri Lanka. Since I wrote, you have shared the...

Panel of Experts report translated into French and Spanish

Here is the executive summary of the United Nations Panel of Experts’ report into accountability in Sri Lanka translated into French & Spanish. We believe it is the first time the report has been translated into these languages. Spanish: Queridos amigos,...

Milliband and Kochner speak out on Sri Lanka

The following appeared in the New York Times and is reproduced in full below. The Silence of Sri Lanka By DAVID MILIBAND and BERNARD KOUCHNER In April 2009, we travelled together as foreign ministers to Sri Lanka, as 25 years of fighting between the Sri Lankan...