Weekly Update Service 11/91 (includes 2 additions)
1. Albania: authorities announce release of remaining political prisoners. 2. Peru: Amnesty International calls for immediate investigation into bomb attack on human rights defender.
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Amnesty International’s current concerns in Sri Lanka
Amnesty International’s concerns about a wide range of gross human rights violations in Sri Lanka are summarized in this paper. In particular, the persistence of widespread extrajudicial killings and “disappearances” by the security forces in the context of opposition violence is highlighted. Other concerns include arbitrary detention without charge or trial and torture or ill-treatment…
Human rights in the shadow of war
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Sri Lanka: Commission of inquiry announced to investigate new cases of “disappearance”
A Presidential Commission has been appointed to inquire into reported cases of “disappearance” which occur from 11 January 1991. The three-member Commission is chaired by a retired Judge of the Supreme Court, and its two other members are a retired Judge of the Court of Appeal and an Attorney- at-law. Full details of the terms…
Sri Lanka: Summary of human rights concerns during 1990
Amnesty International’s concerns about continuing human rights violations in Sri Lanka in 1990 are summarized here. Thousands of “disappearances” and extrajudicial executions by government forces were reported in the northeast and south. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) reportedly killed hundreds of civilians and prisoners, including policemen. At the end of 1990 about 9,000…
Sri Lanka: Proposed amendments to the constitution affecting fundamental rights
The Government of Sri Lanka has published proposed amendments to the fundamental human rights chapter of the constitution. Changes envisaged by the proposed amendments are examined here (and summarized in a table), along with details of the grounds on which specific human rights could be restricted. The proposed amendments are considered in relation to specific…
Sri Lanka: Extrajudicial executions, ‘disappearances’ and torture, 1987 to 1990
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Sri Lanka Briefing: A human rights crisis
Gross and widespread violations committed in a context of armed opposition
Sri Lanka: An update on human rights concerns
This paper updates AI’s concerns in Sri Lanka as outlined in the circular “Sri Lanka: Extrajudicial executions, “disappearances” and torture, 1987 – 1990″ (ASA 37/21/90). Although reports of extrajudicial executions and “disappearances” diminished after March 1990, they did not cease, and intimidation and death threats by government forces continued. In the northeast, heavy fighting broke…
Sri Lanka: The Indian Peace Keeping Force and “disappearances”
This report documents 43 cases of “disappearance” reported from the northeast of Sri Lanka from mid-1987 to early 1990, the period when the Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) was deployed. The IPKF were opposed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the largest separatist group in the area. During this time, IPKF soldiers were accused…
Report of Amnesty International Mission to Sri Lanka 1975
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