Return to War - Human Rights Watch

• Take all appropriate steps to ensure Karuna group commanders and other
members do not engage in abductions, and release all those previously
abducted immediately.
• Stop extortion, intimidation, and mistreatment of persons who are perceived
to be against the Karuna group.
• Take appropriate steps to ensure Karuna group commanders and other
members do not harass and intimidate displaced persons living in camps.
• Allow UNICEF, SLMM, and other domestic and international protection
agencies access to all Karuna group camps—military and otherwise—to
assess the age of recruits, and to identify children for demobilization.
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• Work with the Sri Lankan government to establish an international human
rights monitoring mission under United Nations auspices to monitor
violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by all parties to
the conflict.
• Urge the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE to agree to designate
demilitarized zones as sanctuaries in conflict areas and pre-position
humanitarian relief in known places of refuge.
• Urge the government of Sri Lanka to ensure the protection of displaced
persons, regardless of ethnicity, and end forced returns.
• Urge the Sri Lankan government to take proactive steps to end the practice of
enforced disappearances, seriously investigate cases of complicity of state
forces, and prosecute those responsible.
• Urge the government to discipline or prosecute as appropriate members of
the security forces, including commanders, responsible for serious human
rights abuses.
• Urge all parties to improve humanitarian access to populations at risk,
including by ending unnecessary governmental restrictions on humanitarian
workers.
• Urge the government to bring an end to torture, arbitrary arrest and detention,
and extrajudicial executions by state security forces and other progovernment
groups, including the Karuna group and EPDP.
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