Victim Community Endorses strong recommendations of High Commissioner Bachelet
GENEVA – February 02, 2021: We, members of the Tamil diaspora spread across the world call on the states gathered to deliberate at the 46
th Human Rights Council session to pass a new resolution on Sri Lanka following the recommendations laid out in the January 2021 report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report clearly confirms that, in the twelve years since the end of the war, Sri Lanka has failed to demonstrate that it has the political will to move forward on a domestic or hybrid justice process and reparations for atrocity crimes committed during the war which ended in 2009.
20 December, 2020
This is an exclusive interview conducted with Prof. Rohan Gunaratna on strengthening ethnic and religious harmony in Sri Lanka. He is a Honorary Professor at the Sir John Kotelawala Defence University and Senior Advisor to its Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka.
Q: How can Sri Lanka be protected from extremism and fundamentalism ?
A: Sri Lanka is not an exception to the global and regional rise of ethnic exclusivism and religious extremism. To counter ethnic assertiveness and religious separation, the government should take firm measures to protect the nation-state and its citizens.
First, create a policy and legal framework to maintain ethnic and religious harmony. Secondly, develop capabilities within intelligence agencies to detect and disrupt extremists inciting hatred and terrorists planning attacks. Thirdly, raise counter extremism units within law enforcement authorities to investigate and prosecute those disrupting harmonious relation