 INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA
UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
RECOGNISES EXISTENCE OF 'ARMED CONFLICT' - 1987
"The Commission on Human Rights, guided by the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the universally
accepted rules of international humanitarian law,... noting also that more than a hundred
new cases of alleged disappearances in Sri Lanka have been transmitted to the Government
by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances ... calls upon all
parties and groups to respect fully the universally accepted rules of humanitarian law...
(and) appeals to the Government of Sri Lanka to intensify its cooperation with the
International Committee of the Red Cross in the fields of dissemination and promotion of
international
humanitarian law and invites the Government of Sri Lanka to consider favourably the
offer of the services of the ICRC to fulfil its functions of protection of human rights
standards..." -
Resolution of the United
Nations Human Rights Commission, co-sponsored by Canada, Norway and Argentina and
unanimously adopted on 12 March 1987
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