{"id":57895,"date":"2012-10-28T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T11:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=57895"},"modified":"2012-10-28T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T11:11:59","slug":"remembering-sri-lankas-killing-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/remembering-sri-lankas-killing-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Sri Lanka\u2019s Killing Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Gareth Evans*\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world\u2019s collective conscience. We remember and acknowledge the shame of Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. We agonize about the failure to halt the atrocities being committed almost daily in Syria. But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0article <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/accountability-for-sri-lanka-s-official-killers-by-gareth-evans\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>*Gareth Evans, Australia\u2019s foreign minister for eight years and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, is currently Chancellor of the Australian National University and co-chair of the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect. As Foreign Minister, he was at the forefront of recasting Australia\u2019s relationship with China, India, and Indonesia, while deepening its alliance with the US, and helped found the APEC and ASEAN security forums. 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