Sri Lanka: A Mounting Tragedy of Errors — Report of a Mission to Sri Lanka in January 1984

Paul Sieghart · International Commission of Jurists / JUSTICE (British Section), 1984

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Sieghart's follow-up ICJ mission report explicitly describes the 1981 Jaffna events as a pattern of state-sponsored communal violence, tracing impunity directly to the Jayewardene administration. It identifies the failure to prosecute the library arsonists as emblematic of a systemic breakdown in the rule of law. Sieghart was Chairman of the Executive Committee of JUSTICE; this report fed directly into UK parliamentary and European diplomatic concern about Sri Lanka.

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