Stop state sponsored death squads in Sri Lanka

This petition was published by IFT on Jan 31, 2006

The High Commissioner

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN office at Geneva

dt.31 jan 2006

The state sponsored death squads in Sri Lanka

Human rights organisation and civil society observed strong evidence that the Sri Lanka military and its political sponsors have returned full cycle to the policies of the 1988 to 1999 period when an estimated 60 000 civilians in the South were killed by government death squads.

Official military as well as state controlled paramilitary death squads are now actively engaging in the following terror strategies:
(a) Abductions and disappearances
(b) Targeted political assassinations against Tamil leaders
(c) Threatening and Killing of journalists
(d) Killing of the families of dead Tamil war heroes and of civilian political activists.

The Human Rights commission of Sri Lanka received more complain of more than 70 cases of disappearances in the months of dec. 2005 and jan 2006. More than 60 cased of killings reported in local media.

In above back ground, We urge the High Commissioner to prevent further human rights violations in north east of SL by appoint a spl. representative to investigate the state back death squads.

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