British university students have called the passing of a resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council "another step in a long and arduous path towards justice", in a statement released this weekend.
The Tamil Students Initiative (TSI), an inter-university British organisation,stated that the authorisation of an international investigation was “a significant movement by the international community towards identifying and obtaining accountability for the past war crimes and ongoing genocide committed on the island”.
Highlighting the need for “a political solution that ends the ongoing oppression of the Tamil people in the North-East”, the students called on the OHCHR to use this opportunity to act on the deteriorating of human rights situation, notably the accounts of sexual violence, disappearances, lack of land rights, and alarming detentions of Tamil people.
The statement goes on to “acknowledge and applaud the constant campaigns efforts made by youth globally, including those in the Tamil diaspora, Tamil Nadu and the North-East” concluding,
“We hope we can replicate the industrious efforts of those before us and work with the international community to one day truly provide justice for the Tamil people”.
See the full statement here.