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SL must have foreign judges in war crime probe: HRW – Daily Mirror

February 17, 2017 By Abdul Nazeer Leave a Comment

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Sri Lanka must employ international judges and prosecutors to ensure accountability during trials of those responsible for alleged war crimes against mostly Tamils, Human Rights Watch Australia's director Elaine Pearson has told SBS News on Friday.

Ms. Pearson's call, which echoes a recommendation in the 2015 UN Human Rights Council report of the OHCHR investigation of Sri Lanka, comes as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe visited Australia this week.

On Wednesday, he beckoned asylum seekers who fled to Australia to return, assuring they would be “quite safe”.

“They can come back to Sri Lanka and we will help them… but remember, they broke the law by attempting to come to Australia,” he said.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in 2015 “Our investigation has laid bare the horrific level of violations and abuses that occurred in Sri Lanka, including indiscriminate shelling, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, harrowing accounts of torture and sexual violence, recruitment of children and other grave crimes.”

Both the Sri Lankan government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were likely to have committed the abuses, the investigation found.

The investigation recommended Sri Lanka bring to trial those responsible for alleged war crimes in a court that was both domestic and international – where the international element would help ensure accountability.

It urged the country to integrate “international judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators that will be essential to give confidence to all Sri Lankans in particular the victims, in the independence and impartiality of the process, particularly given the politicisation and highly polarised environment in Sri Lanka.”

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