Sri Lanka rejects conflict criticism

The foreign minister of Sri Lanka has attacked criticism of his government's handling of the conflict that ended in the military defeat of the Tamil Tiger Rebels.

U.N. ready to support Sri Lanka war inquiry - Pillay

By Laura MacInnis

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations stands ready to support an inquiry into abuses in Sri Lanka's civil war, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Thursday.

Addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council, which last week avoided launching an investigation into the Sri Lankan conflict, the former war crimes judge stressed that reconciliation would be impossible without a full reckoning of transgressions.

"I believe that accountability is a prerequisite for the attainment of justice and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans and, thus, a foundation for lasting peace," she said.

Pillay, who is an ethnic Tamil from South Africa, said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the military both ought to held responsible for killing and mistreating civilians in the last throes of their 25-year conflict.

Her remarks sought to keep up pressure on Sri Lanka in spite of the Human Rights Council's failed attempt to scrutinise the conduct of both sides during and after the 25-year separatist war that Colombo declared over last month.

Sri Lanka's allies including China, India and Russia backed its resolution to the U.N. body's special session stressing its right to act without outside interference, and blocked discussion on a Western text expressing concerns about humanitarian conditions in the country.

Human rights groups including Amnesty International have been calling for an outside inquiry as recommended by Pillay.

In her Thursday remarks, the High Commissioner also urged Colombo to allow free movement in and out of the camps holding hundreds of thousands of war-displaced people in Sri Lanka's northeast, where the LTTE had been fighting for an independent Tamil homeland in the majority Sinhalese country.

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[vbandara]

Hey mother fucker your mother fucked with a Dog? You colonial imperialist blood suckers, talk about how many people you killed in your stinky colonial history. Are you going to feed your family from the money of this dirty journalism? Feed your own SHIT to your family.

[vbandara]

Fucking BBC is a big time LTTE supporter. All these mother fuckers want us to be their colony. Dont you double standard dogs dont have any other better news to report? Why dont you reporting something about killing Princess of Wales by your stinky government, or about Prince Charles and Camilla Parker?

[crudhousefull]

The real bastards in this were the original white invaders that used divide and rule to put the Tamil minority (14%) as overseers over the Sinhalese majority (74%). Isn't it obvious that the majority would rise up after independence? Equally obvious the minority would then have hurt feelings and rise up once again. This is the third evolution. The white bastards are continuing to propagate divide and rule by showing chosen portions of a prolonged struggle. Leave the world alone you fungus!

[foreveromg123]

sinhalese and balngladeshi looks alike man .....i think they are brothers

[xMaXiMuSx]

@thanu31

Tamil Tiger is a terrorists organization backed by the US/India to overthrow/destabilize the chinese friendly goverment in Sri Lanka nothing more, nothing less.

[thanu31]

@vbandara

YOOOO the guys wont answer the simple question. WHY CANT THEY HAVE AN INDEPENDANT INVESTIGATION? Do you have an answer???

[SLARMYNFF]

PICKETING IN FRONT OF THE GENEVE UN HQ AGAINST THE SPECIAL ADVISORY PANEL that brings our war heros in front of the International War Crimes Tribunal (Stupid and Illegal Idea by Banki Moon), We must Stop this Illegal UN activity to enter in Sri Lankans affairs without a good reason and destroy the new rebuilt Sri Lanka!!!! MEETING POINT IS IN FRONT OF THE GENEVE UN HQ (SWISS) AT 10.00 a.m. Local Time. From Milan (Italy) busses will start at 6.00 a.m. in PIAZZA CAIROLI.

[malanfrk]

how ever he saying true. brigtaings dont come among to our problems

[john5006201]

"Are you going to feed your family from the money of this dirty journalism? Feed your own SHIT to your family."

BRAVO! Well said brother!

[john5006201]

Well said Mr Rohitha! "We are accountable ONLY TO SRI LANKANS, not to these bullshit media in the west".

[bailaman]

We need better people talking to the media. He can't answer simple question. Why wont we allow an investigation? Because we will carry out our own.

[TSpector24]

cause they are. There is a difference between homeless and someone living in a country sinhalese.

I know, there are always refugees like the Sinhalese in the UK, Canada, US and Italy. Also france and India