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How to Submit
Anyone wishing to make submissions in respect of the above may do so as follows:
1. Organizations and individuals may make one written submission not exceeding ten pages, and must include the contact details for the author(s) of the submission.
2. The Panel will receive submissions until 15 December 2010.
3. Submissions may be sent to: panelofexpertsregistry@un.org.
4. Submissions made to the Panel of Experts will be treated as confidential.
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UN Expert Panel on Sri Lanka
Reports
- War Crimes in Sri Lanka - Crisis Group - 17 May 2010
- Sri Lanka: International inquiry needed to address alleged war crimes Oct 2010 - Joint Letter by AI, HRW, Crisis Group
Issues to Consider
The Sri Lankan army, despite government denials, is indiscriminately shelling the "no-fire zone" in northern Sri Lanka where thousands of civilians are trapped by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said today, citing new information from the region. More than 2,700 civilians have reportedly been killed over the last two months, and the number of casualties rises daily.
March 23, 2009
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/03/23/sri-lanka-no-let-army-shelling-civ...
A new document originating from the UN and circulated among the diplomatic missions in Colombo this week has put the figures of the civilians killed in Vanni since January as at least 6,432 and 13,946 wounded, according to a news report by the Associated Press Friday. "The casualties were reported as 'verified data' in the document," the AP said. The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has been firing thousands of artillery and mortar shells, including internationally banned cluster munitions and chemical warheads, into the so-called no-fire zone or 'safety zone' killing and maiming thousands of Tamil civilians, constituting a grave war crime and crime against humanity.
April 24, 2009
http://www.innercitypress.com/sc3srilanka042409.html
An uncounted number of dead bodies between 2,000 and 3,000 are lying all over the places in civilian congested area and the civilians are all struck by a heavy stench of dead bodies, said a volunteer doctor from Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal. "Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has destroyed all medical facilities by targeted attacks, and the SLA was continuing inhuman and indiscriminate attacks on civilians providing only two options, death or surrender," he added. The volunteer doctor himself witnessed more than 100 deaths Saturday morning. All the government doctors and the top officials have fled the shelling. Civilians are in shock at the continuing carnage in Vanni
May 16, 2009
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=29382
MUTTUR MASSACRE: ACF demands an internationalized inquiry : On August 4, 2006, 17 members of Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim (ACF) were executed in Muttur, Sri Lanka. These murders constitute the most serious crime ever committed against a non governmental organization. According to the media, the final report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (notably in charge of investigating this massacre) failed to identify the people responsible for this slaughtering.
Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger/ACF) in a press note to journalists released Thursday said 18 April 2008, “[t]he Muttur slaughter can't be considered only as a "collateral damage" during the Muttur battle: our team has been specifically and deliberately targeted, their death has been organised execution style with bullets shot in their head. Everything was consciously and brutally planned: the victims were kneeling, unarmed and defenceless. The culprits of this massacre are the ones who were carrying the arms. We can assert that this massacre is a war crime in violation of the Geneva Conventions.”
July 20, 2009
http://www.actioncontrelafaim.org/en/muttur/the-campaign/news/
On 14 August, as many as 51 teenage girls were reportedly killed and more than 100 wounded when Sri Lankan air forces dropped between 12 to 16 bombs on a compound in the northern district of Mullaitivu, in LTTE-controlled territory. UNICEF reported that the victims had come from various schools in Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts to attend course in first aid.
August 18, 2006http://www.amnesty.ca/resource_centre/news/view.php?load=arcview&article..
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