Expressing support for internal rebuilding, resettlement, accountability, and reconciliation within Sri Lanka so that Sri Lankans from all ethnic and religious communities may benefit from the end of the country’s 26-year civil war.

calls on the Government of Sri Lanka to implement the constructive recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) in a credible, transparent, and expeditious manner;

recognizes that the LLRC report has not adequately addressed issues of accountability for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity that may have been committed by the Government of Sri Lanka and the terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE);

commends the representatives of the United States on their leadership on United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution (UNHRC) A/HRC/25/L.1.Rev.1, adopted by the UNHRC on March 27, 2014, establishing an Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights investigation into allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other human rights violations committed by both sides during and after the war in Sri Lanka and to make recommendations regarding accountability;

recommends that the United States Department of State place restrictions on entry to the United States for anyone it identifies as responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity;

encourages the Government of Sri Lanka to work with and accept the support of civil society and local and foreign agencies that can support the causes of reconciliation and accountability, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in its investigation;

calls for the Government of Sri Lanka to allow for greater media freedoms and ensure the freedom and protection of the press and of religion;

urges the Government of Sri Lanka to provide for freedom of movement and allow humanitarian organizations and international human rights groups greater access to war-affected individuals, including rehabilitated ex-LTTE cadres and those detained;

acknowledges the end of the war and calls on the Government of Sri Lanka to prioritize the process of demilitarization throughout the country, including removing military involvement from civilian administration;

calls on members of the Tamil National Alliance to acknowledge past relationships with the LTTE and make a firm commitment to reconciliation and a long-term political solution that would ensure for a peaceful and unified Sri Lanka;

urges the government of the ruling party to begin negotiations with the Tamil National Alliance on a political solution from where those talks stopped in 2011; and

acknowledges the importance for all parties to reach a lasting political settlement on the meaningful devolution of power consistent with the recommendations of the LLRC and acceptable to all sides.