Norma relacionada
Sri Lanka
Practice Relating to Rule 92. Mutilation and Medical, Scientific or Biological Experiments
Sri Lanka’s Geneva Conventions Act (2006) includes the following grave breach as an indictable offence: “inhuman treatment, including biological experiments”.
Sri Lanka, Geneva Conventions Act, 2006, Schedule I: Article 50, Schedule II: Article 51, Schedule III: Article 130, and Schedule IV: Article 147.
In 2008, in its initial report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child under the 2000 Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, Sri Lanka stated:
83. In accordance with resolution 1612 and Section VI, paragraph 2 of the Terms of Reference of the Working Group o[f] the [UN] Security Council on children and armed conflict, the TFMR [Task Force for Monitoring and Reporting] will focus on violations against children affected by armed conflict …
84. … [V]iolations and abuses committed against children affected by armed conflict including … maiming of children … will also be addressed.
Sri Lanka, Initial report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child under the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, 15 February 2010, UN Doc. CRC/C/OPAC/LKA/1, submitted 16 June 2008, §§ 83–84.
