ITJP Press Releases

• Published on July 7, 2020 - 00:00 GMT

  

  Sri Lanka - A Parallel State?

  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, July 7, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- A new infographic reveals how President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is ruling Sri Lanka, as if he is autonomous, through powerful militarised task forces that bypass the usual checks and balances of a …

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• Published on April 8, 2020 - 19:39 GMT

  

  Sri Lanka’s Militarisation of COVID-19 Response

  JOHANESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, April 8, 2020 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Accompanying Infographic Johanesburg: The lack of civilian oversight over Sri Lanka’s militarised COVID-19 response raises some very serious human rights concerns, said the International …

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• Published on October 22, 2019 - 23:15 GMT

  

  Top Sri Lankan Navy Commanders Complicit in Serious Crimes.

  New ITJP report calls for a review of international engagement with the Sri Lankan Navy. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, October 22, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The International Truth and Justice Project has called for a review of all naval cooperation with …

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• Published on September 17, 2019 - 23:15 GMT

  

  Sri Lankan Torturers Survive Regime Change

  A new report on the Terrorism Investigation Division of the Sri Lankan Police. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, September 17, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Successive Sri Lankan governments, including the current one, have repeatedly promoted policemen whom they knew …

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• Published on August 19, 2019 - 12:40 GMT

  

  Sri Lanka Betrays its People by Promoting Alleged War Criminal to head its Army

  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, August 19, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- The Sri Lankan President’s decision to appoint a notorious alleged war criminal, Major General Shavendra Silva, as Commander of the Army is immensely damaging to the country and marks the …

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• Published on February 25, 2019 - 00:00 GMT

  

  High time for Sri Lanka to investigate well-known alleged perpetrators of torture.

  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, February 25, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- If Sri Lanka is serious about tackling ongoing torture it needs to suspend and investigate a number of well known security officials named in United Nations reports in connection with …

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• Published on January 29, 2019 - 00:15 GMT

  

  Enough Evidence to Charge Sri Lanka’s new Chief of Army Staff with War Crimes.

  New dossier out on Shavendra Silva. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, January 29, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- There is more than enough evidence to suspend Sri Lanka’s new Chief of Army Staff, Major General Shavendra Silva, and charge him with war crimes and …

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• Published on January 10, 2019 - 18:46 GMT

  

  Sri Lanka’s new Chief of Army Staff should be prosecuted for alleged war crimes if he travels.

  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, January 10, 2019 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to appoint a notorious alleged war criminal as Chief of Army Staff is a shocking new low for Sri Lanka. Major General Shavendra Silva was named …

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• Published on September 27, 2018 - 16:28 GMT

  

  PRESIDENT OF CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS, SRI LANKA, MUST COME CLEAN ON PAST USE

  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, September 27, 2018 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- As the new President of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Sri Lanka must explain why de-miners have repeatedly found cluster remnants in the 2009 war zone, given the ongoing denial. …

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• Published on May 15, 2018 - 09:41 GMT

  

  New ITJP Website lists 280+ Names of Enforced Disappearance in Sri Lanka all on One Day.

  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, May 15, 2018 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- Sri Lanka’s Office of Missing Persons is duty bound to question war-time military leaders over hundreds of cases of enforced disappearance that took place on the final day of the civil war …

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• Published on July 13, 2017 - 20:09 GMT

  UNSTOPPED

  STATE TORTURE & SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA 2016/17 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, July 13, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Johannesburg: Abduction and torture of Tamils by the Sri Lankan security forces remain systematic because in 30 months the new …

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• Published on March 16, 2017 - 16:23 GMT

  

  Former Sri Lankan Army Commander Complicit in Torture

  JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, March 16, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Sri Lanka’s former army commander, currently Ambassador to Brazil, allegedly ran an army camp at the end of the country’s civil war where extremely brutal torture was routine. General Jegath …

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