An Erga Omnes Dispute in The United Nations for Defining the Past Armed Conflict of Sri Lanka
An Erga Omnes Dispute in The United Nations for Defining the Past Armed Conflict of Sri Lanka

Summary/Abstract: The three-decade-long armed conflict ended in Sri Lanka, by the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009. LTTE is defined as an international terrorist organization and banned in 32 countries. Terrorist acts of LTTE were under the category of crimes against humanity. After the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, today there is a new conflict on Sri Lanka, in the United Nations, between the Human Rights Council and the Office of the High Commissioner for the Human Rights for defining the past armed conflict as combat terrorism or an internal war as well defining the LTTE as a terrorist organization or not.

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