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This brief provides an analysis of the United Nations Internal Review Panel Report (IRPR), or the Petrie Report, which highlights the deteriorating human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Since the end of the decades-long civil war in 2009, the country has made little progress in reducing pervasive human rights violations, disappearances or the maintenance of judicial independence. The Petrie Report does not add to the findings of the already existing Report of the Secretary General Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka, and instead documents the UN's inaction when thousands of civilian were being killed and states that the UN's conduct at the end of the war marked a "grave failure" on the part of the UN.