Challenges Ahead: Sri Lanka's mass atrocities and international justice

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”-  Edmund Burke Elections and the Engineers of Mass Atrocities  Sri Lanka, a country currently under international scrutiny for its violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law during the final phase of the war in Mullivaaikaal in the country’s north, is preparing for its seventh presidential election scheduled to be held on 8 January 2015. Three consecutive resolutions concerning wartime mass atrocities and accountability in Sri Lanka were adopted respectively in March 2012, March 2013 and March 2014 at the UN Human Rights Council....

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