Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Sri Lanka Criticizes UN Report on Civil War | Synopsis

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Sri Lanka Criticizes UN Report on Civil War

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In a response to an internal review of the world body released last week, the External Affairs ministry said the report "appears to be another attempt at castigating Sri Lanka for militarily defeating" the Tamil Tiger guerrillas who fought for a separate state in the Indian ocean island. The report said inadequate efforts by the U.N. to protect civilians in 2009 during the bloody final months of the civil war marked a "grave failure" that led to suffering for hundreds of thousands of people. The report accused U.N. staff in Colombo of not perceiving that preventing civilian deaths was their responsibility and accused their bosses at U.N. headquarters of not telling them otherwise. A separate U.N. report released last year said up to 40,000 ethnic minority Tamil civilians may have been killed in the war's final months.

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