The United Kingdom (UK) on February 24 welcoming the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)’s detailed and most comprehensive report on Sri Lanka shared its concerns regarding the reversal of progress on issues of accountability, and also the current human rights situation, and the risk and recurrence of past violations, reports Colombo Page. Lord Tariq Ahmad, the UK's Minister for the UN and Human Rights, delivering a statement during the Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka at the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) expressed “We are also concerned at the increase in surveillance and indeed harassment of civil society actors, the militarisation of these civilian governmental functions, and the impact of the government’s forced cremation policy on different communities in Sri Lanka, particularly the Muslim community, who continue to face persecution.”