; (2) pardoned a convicted war criminal; (3) reversed key democratic reforms and consolidated power behind the office of the President; (4) obstructed efforts to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of war crimes; (5) promoted majoritarian and exclusionary rhetoric; (6) engaged in surveillance and harassment of civil society organizations and human rights advocates; and (7) allegedly employed security forces to abduct and torture dissidents; Whereas the report warns that Sri Lanka’s current trajectory sets the scene for the recurrence of the policies and practices that gave rise to grave human rights violations ; Whereas the United States cosponsored a UNHRC resolution, HRC 46/1 (2021), led by the United Kingdom, which recognizes the lack of accountability for past violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Sri Lanka and directs the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to collect, analyze, and preserve information and evidence for future accountability processes for gross violations of human rights; Whereas the United States cosponsored UNHRC resolution, HRC 51/1 (2022), which— (1) underscores the importance of addressing deepening militarization, lack of accountability in governance, and impunity for serious human rights violations and abuses; (2) recognizes the importance of peaceful protests to the effectiveness of democratic systems and democratic processes, including elections and referendums; and (3) calls upon the Government of Sri Lanka to fulfill its commitments on the devolution of political authority and to ensure that all provincial councils, including the northern and eastern provincial councils, are able to operate effectively