News: Alston

Seventeen days ahead of the January 26 Presidential election, a fresh row has broken out between Sri Lanka and the United Nations (UN) after it was made known that the UN Secretary-General Ban ki-moon has conveyed to Colombo that he is considering appointing a Commission of Experts to advise him further and to assist the Sri Lankan Government in taking measures to address possible violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in the last days of Eelam War IV (July 2006 to May 2009).