The resolution received 22 votes in favor and 11 against, including China and Pakistan, and 14 including India.
The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday passed a resolution directing UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet to collect and preserve information and evidence about war crimes committed during Sri Lanka’s long civil war, which came to an end. ended in 2009.
Sri Lanka ‘s decline in legal independence, ethnic minority marginalization and impartiality was criticized in the resolution, which received 22 votes in favor with 11 against, including China and Pakistan. , and 14 abstentions, including India.
The resolution, introduced by the UK on behalf of a core group of countries, raised particular concerns that the island’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has “reduced the marginalization and normal discrimination of the Muslim community”.
It also extended “military acceleration of civilian government actions”, “decline of judicial independence”, and “increased marginalization” of Tamil and Muslim minorities.
Last month, Bachelet, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, said 12 years after the end of armed conflict in the South Asian island nation, that domestic efforts to ensure justice for victims have failed.
“Despite promises made in 2015, the current government has failed, as before, to follow genuine or genuine accounting processes,” she said.
“The impact on thousands of survivors, from all communities, is devastating. In addition, the systems, structures, policies and staffing that have caused such major breaches in the past – and have recently been consolidated. “
The civil war killed decades of time between Sri Lankan security forces and the Tamil Tigers separatist about 100,000 people, including up to 40,000 Tamil civilians killed by Sri Lankan forces in the final stages of the war. The government has denied the allegation.
UN reports have accused Sri Lankan soldiers of stripping hospitals and making air bombs without discrimination, forcing rebels to surrender and causing the extinction of thousands of minority Tamils from bith.