04/25/2011
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Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A senior US lawmaker on Monday urged Sri Lanka to take concrete action on human rights after a UN panel found credible allegations of war crimes in the bloody 2009 finale to the civil war.
Representative Howard Berman, the top member of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Sri Lanka must "ensure that those involved in violations of human rights are held to account in a transparent and expeditious manner."