sri lanka's commissions of inquiry - Law & Society Trust

INVESTIGATIONS
CATEGORY
OF REC
RECOMMENDATION
(AS STATED IN REPORT)
Further investigations of the complaints of returned detainees be
done as a matter of urgency. 96 I.1*
The evidence of returned detainees on the events they witnessed
while in custody be recorded. 97 I.2
The Human Rights Commission be directed to deal with
instances of torture of returned detainees inquired into by this
Commission. 98 I.3
CoI &
REPORT
All Island, Final
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All Island, Final
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All Island, Final
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YEAR
2001
2001
2001
*
Referral consistently to Recommendation number in Commission report.
**
Referral consistently to page number in Commission report.
96.
Recommendations by Amnesty International include; “Ensure that all violations of human rights and international humanitarian law,
irrespective of the identity of the perpetrator, are promptly, independently, impartially and thoroughly investigated.” Amnesty International,
June 2009, p.49.
97.
Not implemented.
98.
“For this collaboration to be effective, the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission (HRC) needs to be supported and strengthened, and its
independence must be restored. The following steps are crucial.
- The HRC should be in a position to account for every human rights violation investigated as a crime.
- Restore the HRC’s independence and impartiality, in particular through implementing the 17th Amendment to the Constitution of the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (1978), certified on 3rd October 2001 and its schedule.
- Ensure that the HRC’s work is fully supported financially so as to enable it to investigate human rights violations independently, thoroughly
and efficiently.
- Establish a system to provide the relevant authorities with detailed information that they can use to aid them in investigations and
prosecutions. Procedures must be established in law to consider the HRC’s recommendations.
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