Amnesty International’s Secretary General concludes visit

Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, concluded a five-day visit to Sri Lanka, during which she met with officials and a diverse cross-section of society and stakeholders to discuss a range of pressing human rights issues.

Following a meeting with President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday (16 May), the Amnesty International delegation traveled to Mullaitivu on Friday to meet families whose loved ones forcibly disappeared during the war.

Foreign Minister Ali Sabry met with the Secretary-General and a delegation of Amnesty International.

He made a post X about the talks.

He said: “Whilst assuring continued commitment to upholding Human Rights commitments, I outlined the objectives of the humanitarian operations carried out by the government of Sri Lanka to free Sri Lankans belonging to all communities from the scourge of one of the most ruthless terrorist organizations in the world, and further recalled that more than 26000 members of the Sri Lankan armed forces laid their lives, and thousands more sacrificed their limbs to reclaim our nation’s freedom and peace.

“I further expressed our displeasure at outside influence being brought into Sri Lanka’s internal affairs by those engaged in vote bank politics to appease a small domestic audience.”