Mass killings of Tamil civilians downplayed in new UN report on Sri Lanka, silent on genocide question

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Umesh Perinpanayagam currently works as a researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. He can be contacted at u.perinpanayagam@auckland.ac.nz.

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Mass killings of Tamil civilians downplayed in new UN report on Sri Lanka, silent on genocide question

October 19, 2015

Umesh Perinpanayagam

On 1 October 2015 the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted by consensus the resolution ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’. The basis for the resolution was the release and consideration of the long awaited Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) (see here for links to the summary…