Sri Lanka, March 4 -- Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has strongly criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for what he perceives as selective and biased scrutiny of Sri Lanka's human rights record. Wickremesinghe, who even ignored the Supreme Court's ruling on local government elections and proceeded to postpone them, emphasized that while Western nations, such as Ukraine, faced no criticism for postponing elections amid conflict, Sri Lanka consistently upheld democratic principles-even during war.

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) called on the Sri Lankan Government to urgently uncover the fates of tens of thousands of individuals subjected to enforced disappearances and to hold those responsible accountable

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