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Jun 18, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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New UK immigration report says #srilanka continues to operate an extensive intelligence gathering operation in the UK, monitoring protests, surveilling and unencrypted social media. #lka https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/
Also for all those who said branding wasn't a thing & alleged the poor old victims actually paid someone to burn them - the UK Home Office now says "injuries which are self-inflicted by proxy are likely to be extremely rare". https://itjpsl.com/assets/In-their-own-words-2017.pdf
And according to Robert Knox the burning with hot irons goes back to 1641:
Amnesty was reporting on burn marks on the chest of victims in 1989. https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/200000/asa3702119
And again in 1997 - burning with heated metal rods: https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/144000/asa3701019
& in 2009 in the @UNHumanRights OISL report more branding:
@UNHumanRights .@paisleydodds in 2017 - branding yet again: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/men-report-rape-to

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May 22
Astonishing to read the (leaked?) Nawaz Commission report referenced by Australia as their excuse for not pursuing justice against #lka Gen Jagath Jayasuriya when @itjpsl & @theACIJ made a complaint to police there.
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SLAP failed to say that Chile appointed a prosecutor and Brazil AG confirmed they had jurisdiction.

So why didn't #Australian police even look into the complaint?

It supported the mandate of UN SLAP but didn't act.

itjpsl.com/press-releases…
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Nawaz Commission - was to "Find out whether preceding Commissions of Inquiry & Committees which have been appointed to investigate into Human Rights violations, have revealed any Human Rights violations, serious violations of IHL & other such serious offences" not to prosecute! Image
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Dec 5, 2023
In advance of 2day's UK parliament debate on #srilanka #humanrights .@SLHinLondon sent MPs a confidential spin document. It claims the new version of the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act will IMPROVE things - not what 11 UN experts said: .@ambikasat ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
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It claims the Office on Missing Persons supports families of disappeared in getting legal documents - but it was a struggle even to get the OMP's annual report which is not online!
Its says the OMP has PUBLIC TRUST which is highly debatable - here are families of the disappeared condemning the OMP & demanding the body ends its 'sham investigations' ! tamilguardian.com/content/famili…

https://www.tamilguardian.com/content/families-disappeared-demand-omp-end-sham-investigations
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Sep 13, 2022
US senators issue stmt to say the international community must continue to push for justice, transparency, and accountability for human rights violations committed during the civil war to help the people of #SriLanka move forward. 🙏 leahy.senate.gov/press/as-un-ge…
The full senate resolution calls for full funding for the #SriLankan accountability project
It’s also pretty forthright about @GotabayaR government in #lka
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Sep 13, 2022
#srilanka told UN in Geneva the Office on Missing Persons .@ompsrilanka is "inquiring" -
why hasn't it summoned the 58 Div commander from May 2009 @SilvaShavendra to ask why HUNDREDS of people inclu 29 babies & kids disappeared in his custody - named here disappearance.itjpsl.com/#lang=english Ali Sabry to HRC 12 sęp 2022https://www.disappearance.itjpsl.com/#lang=english for detai
@ompsrilanka @SilvaShavendra Meanwhile read .@JDSLanka story disappearance.itjpsl.com/#lang=english from year ago on how @ompsrilanka has been asking families for TWENTY documents as part of this "inquiry" process & pushing DEATH certificates. http://www.jdslanka.org/index.php/news-features/politics-a-c
@ompsrilanka @SilvaShavendra @JDSLanka & look what happened to the thousands of families of the disappeared from 1989 period - itjpsl.com/reports/gotaba… - who testified to presidential commissions & never got truth let alone justice. https://itjpsl.com/assets/ITJP_1989_mass_grave_report_v6_WEB
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Sep 12, 2022
very very disappointing UN Geneva session on #srilanka in terms of accountability for war crimes &crimes against humanity - esp. systems crimes against inter alia #tamils .@UNHumanRights @UN_HRC

Experts sent private messages saying many of the speeches were like a bad joke.
@UNHumanRights @UN_HRC Worth .@UNHumanRights recalling what @raad_zeid said in 2016 as OHCHR chief re the inability of the #srilanka judicial system to deal with international crimes & how the State’s security sector &justice system have been distorted &corrupted by decades of impunity. https://www.ohchr.org/en/st...
@UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @raad_zeid UN OHCHR recommended 'the establishment of an ad hoc hybrid special court, integrating international judges, prosecutors, lawyers &investigators, mandated to try notably war crimes & crimes against humanity' - now there's SILENCE on the hybrid court.
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Dec 14, 2021
6 UN rapporteurs & the working Group write to #srilanka president saying prevention of terrorism act (#PTA) is not compliant with #lka's international law obligations: spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/… - Government response at spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/…
They complain about vague legal definitions - esp. regarding INTENT to cause communal disharmony & say language needs amending. Also say PTA might allow 4 unlawful detention, confessions thru #torture + concerned about who can arrest and if law can be retrospectively applied.
Also that official recognised places of detention need to be used with proper registers & families informed.
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