Sri Lanka: Tamils:Written question

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Sri Lanka: Tamils:Written question – 49000

Q
Asked by Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) [N]
Asked on: 17 October 2016
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Sri Lanka: Tamils
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations his Department has made to the government of Sri Lanka on the persecution of Tamil people in that country; and if he will call for an international investigation into that persecution.
 
Answered by: Alok Sharma
Answered on: 20 October 2016

The Sri Lankan government has taken a number of positive steps to improve the human rights situation in that country, but we recognise that there remains much to be done. In our statement to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in June we set out the areas we felt were important for Sri Lanka to focus on. These included further land returns in the north of the island, the repealing of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the devolution of political authority through constitutional reform and the creation of credible justice mechanisms. I most recently raised Tamil issues with Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister in September. We will continue to work with the UN, Sri Lanka and our other international partners to ensure full implementation of UNHRC resolution 30/1, co-sponsored by the UK in October 2015, while recognising the scale of the challenge this represents and allowing time for credible, well thought out transitional justice mechanisms to be developed and implemented.

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-10-17/49000/

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