A U.N. investigator, Manfred Nowak, special rapporteur on torture for the U.N. Human Rights Council calls upon the government to take seriously reports of widespread use of torture by security forces in their battle with LTTE along with a list of other recommendations following a week-long visit on an official invitation.
Source
UN human rights expert reports allegations of torture in Sri Lanka, UN News Centre, 29 October 2007.
Quotation
“The high number of indictments for torture filed by the Attorney General’s Office, the number of successful fundamental rights cases decided by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, as well as the high number of complaints that the National Human Rights Commission continues to receive on an almost daily basis indicates that torture is widely practiced in Sri Lanka.” Manfred Nowak, Special rapporteur on torture for the U.N. Human Rights Council.
