Humanity failed in Sri Lanka

[ The Guardian ][ Jun 12 12:14 GMT ]






Sri Lanka is a country where abductions, disappearances, killings and general human rights violations happen with impunity. Law and order is applied selectively. Racists are promoted to higher ranks and government allegedly colludes with armed paramilitary in abductions and disappearances. In recent times, Sri Lanka has taken a step further in breaching international law, Geneva conventions and UN charters that it is signed up to. In the name of "war on terror", Sri Lanka conducted mass murder in broad daylight. What are we going to tell our own kids when they ask us what we did to save those children? We know from the UN secretary general that more than 50,000 children are living under "appalling conditions" in barbed-wire open prisons. [ full story