FAC Q315–Q316.
An anchor page for the on-the-record exchange between MP Uma Kumaran and Foreign Secretary David Lammy before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (HC 2024-25), in which the Foreign Secretary confirmed that Sri Lanka is not an ICC state party. This is the load-bearing UK diplomatic-record anchor for the Chemmani accountability file.
The record, in outline.
Q315 — MP Uma Kumaran, pressing the Foreign Secretary on the UK's position on Sri Lankan accountability, including the question of an ICC referral for past gross violations.
Q316 — Foreign Secretary David Lammy, on the record, confirms that Sri Lanka is not a state party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Direct ICC referral is therefore not available as a route.
The Institute reproduces the exchange in outline. Readers who need the operative language should consult the Committee's official transcript at the source URL above (search for the session referenced as ukr-7883).
The naive ICC ask.
A large share of diaspora advocacy has, for years, been organised around asking the UK Government to "refer Sri Lanka to the ICC". FAC Q315–Q316 forecloses that ask on the UK's own terms: not a hostile refusal, but a statement of legal fact. Sri Lanka has not acceded to the Rome Statute. The ICC has no jurisdiction over nationals of a non-party state absent a UN Security Council referral under Chapter VII.
Four routes that survive Q316.
The OHCHR Sri Lanka Accountability Project, established under HRC resolution 46/1 (2021) and renewed through 51/1, 57/1 and 60/1, is the standing UN repository for evidence on past gross violations in Sri Lanka. It is the correct forum for Chemmani material.
Third-state prosecutions in jurisdictions that recognise universal jurisdiction for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture. Precedent bases include the UN Convention against Torture (art. 5) and customary international law.
Referral to the ICC via a UN Security Council resolution under Chapter VII, or resolution routes through the UN General Assembly. Politically hard, but formally open.
Designations under the UK Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020, the EU global human rights sanctions regime, and equivalent instruments in third states — including asset freezes and travel bans against named officials with public evidence trails.
MP Pack #18 (Chemmani Accountability) is rebuilt around these four routes, with sample Parliamentary Questions that ask what HM Government is doing on each of them rather than what it will do on the ICC route.
The 21 July 2025 letter from four UN Special Procedures mandate-holders — the load-bearing UN record of the 1999 Chemmani gap.
MP letter, PQs, OHCHR submission, embassy briefing — rebuilt around AL LKA 1/2025 and the four routes that survive Q316.