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  INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA
The Charge is Ethnic Cleansing
UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
RECOGNISES EXISTENCE
OF 'ARMED CONFLICT' - 1987
"The Commission on Human Rights, guided by the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
and the universally accepted rules of international
humanitarian law,... noting also that more than a
hundred new cases of alleged disappearances in Sri
Lanka have been transmitted to the Government by the
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
... calls upon all parties and groups to respect
fully the universally accepted rules of humanitarian
law... (and) appeals to the Government of Sri Lanka
to intensify its cooperation with the International
Committee of the Red Cross in the fields of
dissemination and promotion of international
humanitarian law and invites the Government of Sri
Lanka to consider favourably the offer of the services
of the ICRC to fulfil its functions of protection of
human rights standards..." - Resolution of the United Nations Human
Rights Commission, co-sponsored by Canada, Norway and
Argentina and unanimously adopted on 12 March
1987
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