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UN Not Confident of War Crime Probe in Sri Lanka
Sat, 13 February 2010 08:50
UN High Commissioner Navi Pillai
(NIDAHASA News) National investigations over alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka "have not worked so far", United Nations (UN) say.
“It seems that everybody was waiting for the election to be over, and so that is what I reminded him,” UN High Commissioner Navi Pillai saud Speaking in Dublin, Ireland.
UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon is “seriously committed to getting President Rajapaksa to comply with the undertaking he gave to the Secretary General.”, she added.
The High Commissioner confirmed that she recently met Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe in Geneva.
“The position that Sri Lanka has the unique office of a ministry for HR I thought places a particular responsibility on the minister of HR should talk to his own government not only on post conflict rights violations but post election rights violations.”
Expressing “disappointment” that the issue of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka was not properly addressed at the UN HRC, she said it is an important vehicle on which states can take measures on rights violations of another country.
Denying war crimes allegations, Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said that government will not allow any international investigations.
But the former military chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka has said he will testify at an international hearing
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