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UK Engagement with Sri Lanka: Improving Human Rights or Endorsing Impunity?

Jan 18, 2021

On 8th January, authorities demolished the Mullivaikkal memorial at Jaffna University, which was erected in 2019 to commemorate the tens of thousands of Tamil civilians who were killed in the final stages of the war in 2009. Students who peacefully protested the...

Confronting the truth about Sri Lanka’s post-war ‘rehabilitation’ program: a reply to an academic whitewash

Nov 1, 2019

In a recent article published in World Politics Review, academic Jocelyn Belanger argued that the Sri Lankan experience of ‘rehabilitating’ Tamil Tiger (LTTE) militants at the end of the country’s long civil war in 2009 offers a valuable model for countering violent...

Old wine in new bottles: Sri Lanka’s latest counter-terrorism proposals

Jul 21, 2017

Last Friday, the UN Special Rapporteur (SR) on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism, Ben Emmerson QC, issued a statement of findings upon the conclusion of his visit to Sri Lanka. You can read it in full here. The statement begins with a hard-hitting assessment of the...

Wolves guarding sheep: Sri Lanka’s witness “protection” authority

Feb 17, 2017

Witness protection is a vital component of any judicial process in which there is a high risk of reprisals against those giving evidence. In Sri Lanka, the unreformed nature of the security forces (the target of many allegations) and the culture of impunity they...

Joint letter to the EU Parliament: call to reject the EU Commission’s proposal to restore GSP+ to Sri Lanka

Feb 3, 2017

Earlier last month the Sri Lanka Campaign wrote an open letter to the EU Commission calling on it to postpone a decision to restore GSP+ preferential trade status to Sri Lanka in light of ongoing concerns about the widespread and systematic use of torture in the...
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