{"id":30123,"date":"2021-03-24T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/un-resolution-hailed-as-crucial-turning-point-for-victims-of-sri-lanka-civil-war"},"modified":"2021-03-24T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:43:26","slug":"un-resolution-hailed-as-crucial-turning-point-for-victims-of-sri-lanka-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30123","title":{"rendered":"UN resolution hailed as &#8216;crucial turning point&#8217; for victims of Sri Lanka civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK-led action ramps up scrutiny of the regime against a backdrop of worsening human rights abuses<\/p>\n<p>Civil rights groups have welcomed a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/03\/1088122\">UK-led UN resolution<\/a> on Sri Lanka as a \u201ccrucial turning point for justice\u201d for victims of the country\u2019s nearly 30-year-long conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, which ramps up international monitoring and scrutiny of the country, was passed on Tuesday by the human rights council after the UN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/24\/sri-lanka-risks-return-to-past-atrocities-activists-warn-rajapaksa\">high commissioner for human rights warned<\/a> Sri Lanka could rapidly descend into violence unless decisive international action was taken. Michelle Bachelet expressed alarm over \u201cworrying trends\u201d in the country since President Gotabaya Rajapaksa took office in 2019 and last month told the human rights council the country had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/feb\/24\/sri-lanka-risks-return-to-past-atrocities-activists-warn-rajapaksa\">\u201cclosed the door\u201d on ending impunity for past abuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/un-resolution-hailed-as-crucial-turning-point-for-victims-of-sri-lanka-civil-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-led action ramps up scrutiny of the regime against a backdrop of worsening human rights abusesCivil rights groups have welcomed a UK-led UN resolution on Sri Lanka as a \u201ccrucial turning point for justice\u201d for victims of the country\u2019s nearly 30-year-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,53,61,674,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30124,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30123\/revisions\/30124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}