Washington:
The US has mentioned that it is meticulously reviewing a report from the UN on Sri Lanka’s human rights circumstance which highlights worrying trends such as deepening impunity, rising militarisation of governmental functions, ethno-nationalist rhetoric and intimidation of the civil society more than the previous year.
The report urges enhanced monitoring and powerful preventive action by the international neighborhood, warning that “Sri Lanka’s current trajectory sets the scene for the recurrence of the policies and practices that gave rise to grave human rights violations.”
“We are carefully reviewing the significant report from” the UN Human Rights Council “on human rights in Sri Lanka,” US State Department Spokesman Ned Price mentioned.
“Sri Lanka’s future depends on respecting rights today and taking meaningful steps to deal with the past,” Mr Price mentioned in a tweet, a day soon after the UN report warned that the failure of Sri Lanka to address previous violations has considerably heightened the threat of human rights violations getting repeated.
Nearly 12 years soon after the armed conflict in Sri Lanka ended, impunity for grave human rights violations and abuses by all sides is more entrenched than ever, with the present government proactively obstructing investigations and trials, and reversing the restricted progress that had been previously created, according to the report, mandated by the UN Human Rights Council resolution.
The report highlights worrying trends more than the previous year, such as deepening impunity, rising militarisation of governmental functions, ethno-nationalist rhetoric and intimidation of the civil society.
Among the early warning signals, the report highlights are: the accelerating militarisation of civilian governmental functions, reversal of significant constitutional safeguards, political obstruction of accountability, exclusionary rhetoric, intimidation of civil society and the use of anti-terrorism laws.
According to the UN figures, up to 40,000 civilians have been killed by the safety forces throughout then Mahinda Rajapaksa’s regime that brought an finish to practically 3 decades of civil war in Sri Lanka with the defeat of LTTE in 2009.
Both the government troops and the Tamil Tiger rebels are accused of war crimes.