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Elliot Colburn MP

Elliot Colburn MP

Conservative MP for Carshalton and Wallington

Human rights abuses are plaguing Sri Lanka – the UK must step up and introduce sanctions

11 Nov Foreign affairs

Human rights abuses are plaguing Sri Lanka – the UK must step up and introduce sanctions

Thirteen years ago, a civil war on the island of Sri Lanka came to a bloody culmination. During the final months of the conflict, over a hundred thousand civilians suffered horrific human rights abuses and war crimes at the hands of the Sri Lankan government military.