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Diplomatic status of Sri Lankan war crimes suspect revoked
30.10.2011 - (Last modified: 31.10.2019)
Bern/Geneva/Berlin, 13.09.2011
According to media reports today, Jagath Dias, a former Sri Lankan General suspected of having committed war crimes, was stripped of his diplomatic status. The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) and ECCHR (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights) welcome this decision. However,...
Jagath Dias will face investigations if he returns to Switzerland, Federal Attorney Gen...
30.10.2011 - (Last modified: 31.10.2019)
Geneva/Bern, 22nd September 2011
Following a criminal complaint brought by TRIAL (Swiss association against impunity) and the Society for threatened peoples (SPM) against the Sri Lankan Deputy Ambassador to Switzerland, Jagath Dias, for war crimes, the Swiss Federal Attorney General has decided that a criminal investigation will be launched if Mr. Dias were to come...
Germany, Switzerland and Vatican grant diplomatic protection to alleged war criminal
03.05.2011 - (Last modified: 17.07.2017)
ECCHR-Dossier confirms allegations against the Sri Lankan diplomat accused of committing numerous war crimes.
3 May 2011 (Berlin/Bern/Geneva). ECCHR has today published a new dossier which substantiates allegations of war crimes committed by the 57 Division of the Sri Lankan Army under the command of Jagath Dias (available at www.ecchr.eu). Jagath Dias was Major Ge...
Amendment of the Swiss Military Penal Code
19.12.2003 - (Last modified: 18.07.2017)
Modification of the Swiss Military Penal Code
Press release of 19 December 2003 :
On Friday 19 December 2003, despite TRIAL's appeal to the Chambers and the signatures of 35 International Law professors, the federal Chambers formally adopted a revision of the Swiss Military Penal Code which will render Switzerland highly attractive to war criminals.
After...