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Foreign judges dropped from latest Geneva resolution
The Island
|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.
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That call explicitly recognised that international involvement was essential in bringing credibility to any accountability mechanism
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