Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Human Rights Council meeting in October 2015, whether it remains the Government's policy that Sri Lanka establishes a hybrid accountability mechanism with the involvement of international judges and prosecutors in order to deal with outstanding allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

​We continue to encourage the Government of Sri Lanka to implement in full its commitments under UN Human Rights Council Resolutions 34/1 and 30/1 these Resolutions recognised the importance of a credible accountability process for those most responsible for violations and abuses, and called for the participation in this process of Commonwealth and other foreign judges, defence lawyers, and authorised prosecutors and investigators.