Rights group wants Singapore to arrest former Sri Lanka president

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International Truth and Justice Project says Gotabaya Rajapaksa committed grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the civil war

Policemen stand guard at a barricade outside the parliament building as voting begins to elect the new president in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on July 20 2022. Picture: REUTERS/ADNAN ABIDI

The ITJP argued that, based on universal jurisdiction, the alleged abuses were subject to prosecution in Singapore, where he fled after months of unrest over his country’s economic crisis. “Singapore really has a unique opportunity with this complaint, with its own law and with its own policy, to speak truth to power.”

Shubhankar Dam, a professor at the University of Portsmouth School of Law in Britain, who has taught in Singapore, said while its courts were able to try alleged war crimes, genocide and torture, it has repeatedly stated that such jurisdiction should only be invoked as a last resort.

 

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