US blacklists Sri Lankan army commander, cites extrajudicial killings, abuses
Sri Lanka’s army leader, Lieutenant Basic Shavendra Silva, is credited with main an army department in opposition to Tamil Tiger rebels within the ultimate levels of the island country’s 26-year-long brutal civil warfare, which resulted in 2009.
Sri Lanka’s army leader, Lieutenant Basic Shavendra Silva. (Photograph: AP)
The US has imposed sanctions on Sri Lanka’s army leader, Lieutenant Basic Shavendra Silva, for alleged human rights violations together with extrajudicial killings in 2009 throughout the rustic’s civil warfare, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo mentioned on Friday.
“The allegations of gross human rights violations in opposition to Shavendra Silva, documented by way of the United International locations and different organizations, are severe and credible,” Mike Pompeo mentioned in a observation.
The sanctions imposed on Friday by way of Washington bar Shavendra Silva and his members of the family from getting into america.
Shavendra Silva’s appointment as army commander of the island country in August drew sharp complaint from america and the United International locations, which in September suspended the Sri Lankan army from its peacekeeping operations after he was once named army leader.
Shavendra Silva is credited with main an army department in opposition to Tamil Tiger rebels within the ultimate levels of the island country’s 26-year-long brutal civil warfare, which resulted in 2009.
His victory, then again, was once extremely debatable. 1000’s of civilians had been killed within the remaining levels of the armed war, together with in spaces declared by way of the federal government to be a ‘no hearth zone,’ which got here below sustained army shelling, together with hospitals.
A United International locations panel has accused Shavendra Silva’s department of suspected extrajudicial executions of unarmed rebels within the ultimate week of the warfare and systematic torture of other people in custody.
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