Report of an Amnesty International Mission to Sri Lanka, 31 Jan.–9 Feb. 1982

Amnesty International · Amnesty International Publications (London), 1982

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Amnesty's 1982 fact-finding mission to Sri Lanka — conducted barely seven months after the library burning — explicitly found that "the UNP government did not attempt an independent investigation to establish responsibility for these killings in May and June 1981." This is the principal institutional record for the impunity dimension. The Annual Report covering this period documents Amnesty's contemporaneous concerns about extra-judicial violence in the north.

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