Whereas May 18, 2023, marks the 14-year anniversary of the end of the 26-year armed conflict between the Government of Sri Lanka and various armed Tamil independence organizations, including the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; Whereas all communities suffered from violence and counterviolence during the ethnic war; Whereas the Tamil people of Sri Lanka suffered tens of thousands of deaths, disappearances, abuses, and displacements; Whereas the ethnic war was marked by credible allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of violence committed by the Sri Lankan Government, including through the military’s deliberate shelling of civilians in government-designated no fire zones during the war’s final months in 2009, in which 40,000 to 170,000 Tamils were presumed to have been killed; Whereas in the absence of Sri Lanka implementing the recommendations of its own Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission or instituting a credible justice mechanism to investigate serious crimes committed during and after the war, the United States sponsored resolutions in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in 2012, 2013, and 2014 calling in ever stronger terms for domestic action and reconciliation; Whereas the United Nation’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report in 2015 (the OISL Report) that outlined the occurrence of war crimes and crimes against humanity and violations of international humanitarian law during the war in Sri Lanka; Whereas following a change in government in Sri Lanka, the release of the OISL Report, and the recommendations of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United States cosponsored with Sri Lanka a UNHRC resolution in 2015, HRC 30/1, which was reaffirmed in 2017; Whereas under HRC 30/1, the Sri Lankan government made transitional justice commitments for postwar reconciliation including— (1) an accountability mechanism with a special court inclusive of Commonwealth and foreign judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and investigators