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Foreign judges dropped from latest Geneva resolution

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September 17, 2025

Former senior military officers said that the latest UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka had dropped the call for foreign judges, a demand that was forcefully articulated in the 2015 resolution endorsed by the Yahapalana goverment.

That call explicitly recognised that international involvement was essential in bringing credibility to any accountability mechanism

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