SRI LANKA Catholic and rights groups demand the right to intervene in the unity bill debate

A unity bill has been proposed to promote ethnic, religious, and social harmony 14 years after the end of the civil war, but the Office for Missing Persons, the Office for Restorative Justice, and the Truth, Unity, and Reconciliation Commission are not represented on the council that proposed it. For the director of the diocesan Human Rights Office in Kandy, “National reconciliation cannot be enforced from the top down”.

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