UN Panel of experts – Page 2 – People for Equality and Relief in Lanka

Sri Lankan civilians ‘not targeted’, says report

By pearlaction | December 16, 2011 |

[Channel 4] The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, appointed by the Sri Lankan government last year, admitted that some isolated allegations of civilian abuses by security forces at the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009 need to be investigated further. [Full Story]

Sri Lanka: Human Rights Council Should Ensure Accountability

By pearlaction | June 6, 2011 |

[HRW] Human Rights Watch is concerned about the failure of the Sri Lankan government to investigate well-founded allegations of very serious abuses that took place during the last months of its decades-long internal armed conflict, which ended in May 2009. [Full Story]