World Report 2015-Sri Lanka
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WORLD REPORT 2015-Sri Lanka A M us l i m w o man cr i es n ext t o h er bu r nt ho us e af t er a vi ol en t at t ack a g ai n st M u sl i ms i n A l ut h ga ma o n Ju ne 16, 201 4. © 2014 R eut er s The Sri Lankan government has made little progress in providing accountability for wartime abuses. The government’s failure to comply with a March 20! "nited #ations $uman %ights &ouncil resolution led to a new resolution in 20'. The resolutio n calls on the "# (ffice of the $igh &ommissio ner for $uman %ights )($&$%* to investigate serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law and related crimes by both sides during Sri Lanka’s civil war+ which ended in 200,. The government has also continued its crackdown on critics. In March 2014, it detained two prominent human rights defenders who were looking into the arrest of an ethnic Tamil activist. Although the two were suse!uentl " freed, the government arrested scores of other Tamils under the draconian #revention of Terrorism Act. It also laelled 1$ overseas Tamil organi%ations as financers of terrorism without providing evidence of unlawful activit" " the groups. A rally by the ultra-nationalist Buddhist Bodhu Bala Sena (BBS) escalated into violence in June, resulting in the death of four Muslims, injuries to at least 8 !eo!le, and the destruction of numerous Muslim homes and
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