India must raise serious concerns with Sri lanka over human rights violations during and after the end of the nearly three decades long civil war, a leading rights group said on Sunday.
India must raise serious concerns with the Sri lankan Minister for External Affairs G l Pieris, on his scheduled visit to New Delhi this week, about the crackdown on dissent, repression, thousands of cases of disappearances and extra-judicial killings during and after the war ended in 2009, Amnesty International said in a statement.
India must stand firm in its demand for justice for the war-affected as it had signalled at the UN Human Rights Council in March this year when it made a strong call for an “independent and credible investigation” that would be “to the satisfaction of the international community”, the statement said. Sri lankan authorities have continued to dither on past promises at the Human Rights Council or pay heed to the serious concerns raised by the international community. With Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) round the corner, the world’s eyes remain on Sri lanka to address its human rights record, it said.