AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC STATEMENT
AI index: ASA 37/009/2012
13 June 2012
The Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka, June 2012
A statement for the June Human Rights Council Session
Sri Lanka is not fulfilling many of its international human rights obligations. Impunity remains
the norm for gross violations of human rights, including alleged war crimes. Gross and
systematic human rights violations continue to take place. Sri Lanka’s armed conflict ended in
2009, but its legacy of unlawful detention practices continues; arbitrary arrest and detention,
torture and other ill-treatment and custodial killings remain hallmarks of Sri Lankan policing.
The number of reports of enforced disappearances in the past six months is alarming; political
activists critical of the state continue to be victims. Intimidation and smear campaigns against
human rights defenders and journalists in government-owned newspapers have included
attacks on individuals advocating for human rights accountability before this Council.
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