While the ICJ, Amnesty International and Forum Asia welcome the broad scope of the High Commissioner’s report on Sri Lanka, we remain greatly concerned that the minimal measures taken by the government and those announced recently are not tailored to meet the human rights challenge in the context of ongoing repression against human rights defenders and independent journalists. Critically, they will not be effective in the absence of meaningful reform and concrete progress towards effective accountability for allegations of serious IHL and human rights violations and abuses that may amount to crimes under international law committed during the armed conflict.
