(k) Consult with families
and other stakeholders in
the design
of
such
monuments and in the
planning and conducting of
commemoration events.
Measures taken/current situation
Situation during
the visit
A/HRC/33/51/Ad
d.2
OMP
In making its recommendations for memorialisation the OMP recommended that such
measures be implemented in a manner that reflects the views of the public as well as the
families of the missing and disappeared.
Amnesty
Amnesty International is unaware of efforts on this front.
ICJ
Only war memorials have been erected by the State in the post-war decade, however they too
were not built with any consultation from communities that live in the immediate vicinity.
Counter-productively, they remain a reminder of a painful past which prevent them from
moving on.119
ITJP
AND those abroad too.
119
Centre for Policy Alternatives, Selective Memory Erasure: Memorialisation in Sri Lanka’s North, 23 November 2017, Available at
https://www.cpalanka.org/selective-memory-erasure-memorialisation-in-sri-lankas-north/
Level of implementation and
observations (to be completed
by the WGEID)
The Working Group regrets that
this recommendation has not
been implemented.
A/HRC/42/40/Add.1
88
Recommendations
A/HRC/33/51/Add.2
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