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Sri Lanka's GDP is about $41 billion a year. In 2009, approximately $6.3 billion was generated through the exportation of products such as garments, tea, rubber products, and jewelry. 46% of these exports were in textiles and apparel, most of which went to the United States, UK, and other European Union countries. Europian Union has suspended the GSP plus concession to Sri Lanka over its human rights record. Much of Sri Lanka’s labor force is employed in the textile industry, whose wages are then heavily taxed by the Sri Lankan government. This tax money is then used to fund and sustain the Sri Lankan military operations in the northern and eastern regions of the island.
Although the war ended , Sri Lankan Army personnel continue to heavily guard internment camps holding nearly 150,000 civilians. The government has been making repeated promises about the release of the IDP’s, yet it has not responded to pleas on the part of humanitarian agencies, the United Nations, and the US State Department. The Sri Lankan government's egegarious conduct towards Human Rights is financed in part by the economy generated through our consumerism.
Economic Indicators source: http://www.cbsl.gov.lk/info/_cei/ei/e_2.asp
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