Justice for Genocide:
Sri Lanka's Responsibility for Genocide against the Tamil People in 2009
PEARL’s legal briefing paper, Justice for Genocide: Sri Lanka’s Responsibility for Genocide against the Tamil People in 2009, proves there are reasonable grounds to believe that Sri Lanka is responsible for genocide against the Tamil people during the final stages of the war in 2009. It explains how the Sri Lankan government and its forces committed three genocidal acts against the Tamil people—killing, causing serious harm, and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their partial physical destruction—with genocidal intent. PEARL’s full report (English), executive summary (English and Tamil), and explainer video (English) are available below.
Recommendations
Justice for Genocide’s recommendations respond to Tamil victims’ longstanding call for genocide recognition from UN entities and governments. The OHCHR Sri Lanka accountability project (OSLap) should expressly and publicly consider genocide in its analyses of the evidence from January through May 18, 2009, based on reasonable grounds to believe. Executive and legislative branches of governments should carry out a genocide determination, and if genocide is found, publicly acknowledge that Sri Lanka is responsible for genocide against the Tamil people in 2009.
PEARL’s full recommendations to Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are available below. Please check back for recommendations to additional governments.