Sri Lanka Arresting Tamils Is A Blow To Human Rights

 

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report that nine ethnic Tamils were jailed by Sri Lankan authorities for remembering those who lost their lives in the civil conflict that raged from 1983 to 2009. Sri Lanka has begun making arrests under a contentious anti-terrorism statute. Human rights have been harmed by this.

In a report titled “Sri Lanka: Tamils Detained for Commemorating War Dead,” Human Rights Watch stated that Sri Lanka has to promptly free all individuals unjustly incarcerated under the nation’s oppressive counterterrorism legislation.

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Legislators from Tamil Nadu, human rights advocates, trading partners, and international organizations like the UN are concerned about the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).

Human Rights Watch’s deputy director for Asia, Meenakshi Ganguly, wrote in a study that the Sri Lankan government’s application of a counterterrorism law to Tamils honoring those who lost their lives in the civil conflict is “cruelly abusive.”

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In an effort to quell the armed resistance of Tamil youth against state discrimination, the PTA was passed in 1979. In 1982, the PTA was made a permanent statute. Human rights advocates refer to it as “draconian.”

In the 1980s, the PTA was utilized against young Sinhala people. The 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks also resulted in the use of the legislation against Muslims.

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In Batticaloa, Eastern Province, on November 25 and 27, the authorities detained nine ethnic Tamils for remembering the victims of the 1983–2009 civil war.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, commanded by Velupillai Prabhakaran, waged an intermittent insurgency against the government during the Sri Lankan Civil War.