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Title Sri Lanka's authoritarian turn : the need for international action
Published Brussels, Belgium : International Crisis Group, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (44 pages) : color map (digital, PDF file)
Series Asia report ; no. 243
ICG Asia report ; no. 243.
Contents Executive summary. -- Recommendations. -- Introduction. -- HRC and LLRC implementation: a failure to deliver. -- A real action plan. -- What the International community should do. -- Conclusion. -- Appendices
Summary Government attacks on the judiciary and political dissent have accelerated Sri Lanka's authoritarian turn and threaten long-term stability and peace. The government's politically motivated impeachment of the chief justice reveals both its intolerance of dissent and the weakness of the political opposition. By incapacitating the last institutional check on the executive, the government has crossed a threshold into new and dangerous terrain, threatening prospects for the eventual peaceful transfer of power through free and fair elections. Strong international action should begin with Sri Lanka's immediate referral to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) and a new resolution from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) calling for concrete, time-bound actions to restore the rule of law, investigate rights abuses and alleged war crimes by government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and devolve power to Tamil and Muslim areas of the north and east. Sri Lanka is faced with two worsening and inter-connected governance crises. The dismantling of the independent judiciary and other democratic checks on the executive and military will inevitably feed the growing ethnic tension resulting from the absence of power sharing and the denial of minority rights. Both crises have deepened with the Rajapaksa government's refusal to comply with the HRC's March 2012 resolution on reconciliation and accountability
Notes 20 February 2013
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Title from cover screen (viewed on February 27, 2013)
Mode of access: World Wide Web
System requirements: Adobe Reader
Subject Judicial independence -- Sri Lanka
Rule of law -- Sri Lanka
Human rights -- Sri Lanka
Political stability -- Sri Lanka
Ethnic relations.
Human rights.
Judicial independence.
Politics and government
Political stability.
Rule of law.
SUBJECT Sri Lanka -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127142
Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations
Subject Sri Lanka.
Form Electronic book
Author International Crisis Group.