Despite past pledges, successive governments have resisted calls to investigate horrific abuses committed during its long ethnic conflict
Volker Turk told a panel discussion in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, on Tuesday that the country must address the question of impunity during the Tamil separatist war, which was brought to a bloody conclusion in 2009.
The UN has estimated that 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed by government forces in the final months of its battle to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels, who had fought for independence.
Successive Sri Lankan governments have resisted calls for internationally backed independent investigations into horrific rights abuses, while several high-profile massacres of civilians remain unresolved.
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