Persecution increasing in Sri Lanka – UN expert’s recent report on violations of freedom of religion claims
A Christian group has hailed the significance of the findings of a UN special rapporteur’s report on violations of freedom of religion in Sri Lanka. The report, which was recently presented to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), details how religious minorities including Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Jehovah’s Witnesses have suffered from extreme violations of freedom of religion or belief since Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in 2009.
Witnesses have suffered from extreme violations of freedom of religion or belief since Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in 2009. The British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) says the findings tally with its own book, UK Home Office Denialism of the Persecution of Christians in Sri Lanka, due to be published in May.
The book documents the nature and extent of persecution of Christians in Sri Lanka and the way in which the UK Home Office continues to assert that religious minorities do not face a real risk of serious harm or persecution in Sri Lanka.
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Civilians displaced by Sri Lanka’s civil war peer from behind barbed wire fences surrounding their internment camp in Vavuniya on Nov. 21, 2009. A UN report says minorities have suffered from extreme violations of freedom of religious belief since the 26-year conflict ended in 2009.
