| Description |
1 online resource (23 pages) |
| Series |
Update briefing |
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Asia briefing ; no. 99 |
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Update briefing (International Crisis Group)
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Asia briefing (Series) ; no. 99.
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| Contents |
Overview -- Displacement and resettlement -- Developments in the north and east -- A political solution?: elections, governance and minority rights -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Sri Lanka's peace will remain fragile so long as the many credible allegations of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law by senior government and LTTE leaders are not subject to impartial investigation. The truth of what happened during the course of the war, especially in its last months, must be established if Tamils and Sinhalese are to live together as equal citizens. UN officials and major world leaders must go beyond their regular pro forma statements about accountability. Instead, there should be a clear rejection of Sri Lanka's brutal and illegal mode of counterinsurgency, which is already being viewed as a model by other states with restive minorities and ethnic insurgencies. Credible international investigations are necessary and should help reestablish the rule of law within Sri Lanka. Only when political and legal reforms have begun will there be any chance at a true accounting for the terrible violence that all communities in Sri Lanka have undergone, and for any hope of genuine reconciliation between them |
| Notes |
Caption title from title screen (viewed January 31, 2010) |
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"11 January 2010." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Human rights -- Sri Lanka
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Justice, Administration of -- Sri Lanka
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Ethnic relations.
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Human rights.
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Justice, Administration of.
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| SUBJECT |
Sri Lanka -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Sri Lanka.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group.
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