Action plan in place to protect human rights: UN chief

The Panel appointed in 2011 was headed by Marzuki Darusman, a former Indonesian Attorney General, and consisted of Yasmin Sooka of South Africa and Steven R Ratner, a US attorney.

Ban said the action plan has been submitted to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) with his strong recommendation and the UNGA President has circulated it to the member states to be used as a sort of guideline to protect human rights and prevent any further possible human rights violations in any case.

“I am very firm. We discussed this matter even this morning among our senior advisers,” he said.

Sri Lankan government was critical of the report by the panel of experts and slammed it as having “fundamental deficiencies, inherent prejudices and malicious intentions”.It said and that it was “legally, morally and substantively flawed”.