Human Rights Watch has sent letters to the President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapakse, and to the General-Secretary of the LTTE Political Wing, S.P. Tamilselvan, calling on the Government and the LTTE “to urgently institute concrete measures to protect civilians and promote respect for human rights,” including “the establishment of a United Nations human rights monitoring mission in Sri Lanka.”
The Project on Extrajudicial Executions was established by Philip Alston to support his work as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions. His mandate from the United Nations is to respond effectively to cases of extrajudicial killings around the world.
The Project is directed by William Abresch and is part of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law.