; (2) a truth commission; (3) an office of missing persons; (4) an office of reparations and institutional reforms aimed at nonrecurrence; and (5) a number of confidence-building measures; Whereas, in continued demonstration of impunity for human rights violations and despite serving as a cosponsor of the resolution, Sri Lanka withdrew from HRC 30/1 in 2020; Whereas the northeastern region of the country, the traditional Tamil homeland, remains heavily militarized with up to one soldier for every two civilians in the most war-affected regions; Whereas Sri Lanka has passed laws aimed at limiting the freedom of expression of the Eelam Tamil community; Whereas, in 2018, the Northern Provincial Council of Sri Lanka adopted resolutions calling for an international investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the armed conflict and for a United Nations-monitored referendum in the northeastern region of the island to support the development of a permanent political solution; Whereas the Government of Sri Lanka has postponed provincial elections for multiple years, denying all Sri Lankans, including the Tamil people in the Northern Province and the Eastern Province, their democratic right to local representation; Whereas Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, said during a visit to Sri Lanka on June 1, 2006, that There are legitimate issues that are raised by the Tamil community and they have a very legitimate desire, as anybody would, to be able to control their own lives, to rule their own destinies and to govern themselves in their homeland; in the areas they’ve traditionally inhabited. ; Whereas a 2021 report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that the Government of Sri Lanka has, over the past year— (1) elevated individuals implicated in war crimes to senior governmental positions; (2) pardoned a convicted war criminal; (3) reversed key democratic reforms and consolidated power behind the office of the President