{"id":58430,"date":"2012-11-02T02:19:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T02:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=58430"},"modified":"2012-11-05T21:18:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T21:18:32","slug":"international-commission-of-jurists-releases-new-report-on-state-impunity-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/international-commission-of-jurists-releases-new-report-on-state-impunity-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"International Commission of Jurists Releases New Report On State Impunity In Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Sri Lanka report on the Judiciary, the Attorney General and State Immunities\u00a0was released by the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=International+Commission+of+Jurists&amp;x=6&amp;y=6\">International Commission of Jurists<\/a><\/span> on\u00a0Thursday\u00a0November 1st.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/international-commission-of-jurists-releases-new-report-on-state-impunity-in-sri-lanka\/icj926\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58434\" title=\"ICJ926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ICJ926.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ICJ926.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ICJ926-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>The 158-page report,\u00a0<em>Authority without Accountability: The Crisis of Impunity in Sri Lanka<\/em>, documents how, and why, it has become nearly impossible for people who have suffered serious violations of their human rights to receive justice in Sri Lanka. Recent attacks on judicial officers and judges only highlight the systematic erosion of accountability mechanisms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>T<em>he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=+Impunity+In+Sri+Lanka&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\">Crisis of Impunity<\/a><\/span><\/em>\u00a0describes how decades of Emergency rule and legal immunities granted to the President and other government officials weakened the checks and balances in the Sri Lankan government, while political interference\u2014particularly in the conduct of the office of the Attorney-General\u2014in practice led to a failure of justice in a number of key cases.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is the first in a series of national studies in South Asia examining\u00a0<em>Authority without Accountability<\/em>\u00a0in South Asia.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It calls on the Government of Sri Lanka to respect its international obligations to investigate human rights violations; take appropriate measures in respect of perpetrators of such violations, bringing those responsible to justice for violations constituting crimes through prosecution and the imposition of penalties commensurate to the offence; provide victims with effective remedies and reparations for their injuries; ensure the inalienable right to know the truth; and take other necessary steps to prevent recurrence of violations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>read the full report <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SRI-LANKA-IMPUNITY-REPORT-NOV-12-FINAL.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[6089,1513,5404],"class_list":["post-58430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","tag-authority-without-accountability-the-crisis-of-impunity-in-sri-lanka","tag-impunity-in-sri-lanka","tag-international-commission-of-jurists-on-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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