Sri Lanka's respect for human rights have declined, U.S. Human Right Report says
Mar 12, Colombo.: While faulting both sides of Sri Lanka's three decades-long war between the government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released by the United States on Thursday, Department of State said Sri Lankan government's respect for human rights declined as the armed conflict reached its conclusion in 2009 May.