Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Sri Lanka

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 11:00 am on 20 March 2018.

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Photo of Wes Streeting Wes Streeting Labour, Ilford North 11:00, 20 March 2018

Does the hon. Gentleman agree with me that the people in Sri Lanka who do not want the resolution to be implemented are, in effect, engaged in a war of attrition—both with more progressive elements in their own Government and with the wider international community? They hope that, as time passes, as personnel such as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights move on or Governments change, we will just forget about it. They think that they will be able to move on with impunity. That is exactly why the international community needs to keep up external pressure on the Sri Lankan Government to ensure that they sign up to the commitments they made, alongside the rest of the international community, in that important UN Human Rights Council resolution.