UN Investigators for Sri Lanka, Show Your Work!

Rebecca Wexler, JD candidate 2016, publishes an opinion article in Sri Lanka's main human rights journal, Groundviews, calling on UN investigators to use open tools and methods for their investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka. Last week, Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, announced that he would not grant entry visas to U.N. human rights investigators looking into allegations of mass killings. By prohibiting entry to U.N. human rights investigators, Mr. Rajapaksa has ensured that the U.N. investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka will be a remote one, and dependent on digital evidence and forensic science. If the U.N. wants to use this science to reach across identity affiliations, and ask Sri Lankans to trust its investigative findings instead of their own communities and thought leaders, it should give them the resources to make that leap.