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Sri Lanka: Minimal progress on accountability, says Bachelet

United nations, Mar 21 (UNI) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Michelle Bachelet has said that despite progress on some issues, “there has been minimal progress on accountability” including on setting up a special judicial mechanism to deal with the worst crimes committed during the 2009 conflict between the Sri Lanka Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north-east of the country.
She said on Wednesday that the continuing impunity risks fuelling communal or inter-ethnic violence, and instability called for the establishment of an independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a vetting process to remove officers with questionable human rights records.
“This Council continues to have an essential role in accompanying the Government and people of Sri Lanka in their journey towards realising the dignity, and rights of all members of society, irrespective of their sex, ethnic origin or belief”, she concluded.
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