09/15/2011
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The Economist
THE United States is not in the business of threatening its friends, said Robert O. Blake, US assistant secretary of state, in Colombo on September 14th. But, he added, smiling placidly, there will be pressure. If a domestic commission appointed by Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, does not provide credible answers to allegations of war crimes committed by the military, demands for “some sort of alternative mechanism” will mount.
04/18/2011
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New York Times
A leaked report by a U.N. panel contradicted the Sri Lankan account of its fight against the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.
04/18/2011
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The Island
The UN panel of experts to advise Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on matters relating to human rights violations in the last phase of Sri Lanka’s war finally issued its long delayed report on the eve of the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year. The timing of the release of the report may have been strategic.
08/11/2010
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Reuters
(Reuters) - Sri Lanka vowed on Wednesday to investigate the conduct of the war against Tamil separatists, but critics dismissed the inquiry as a whitewash after authorities rejected an international probe into possible war crimes.
08/10/2010
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AFP
WASHINGTON — A group of US lawmakers is urging the Obama administration to push for an independent international investigation into alleged war crimes that occurred during Sri Lanka's civil war.
06/19/2010
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Lakbima News, TransCurrents
The Tamil diaspora is likely to be livid. International human rights groups like Human Rights Watch, International Crisis Group and Amnesty International will not be happy. And this certainly was not what Navi Pillai, the UN high commissioner for human rights, had hoped for.
06/15/2010
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AFP
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's top defence official challenged international rights groups Tuesday to produce evidence of war crimes allegedly committed in the final months of the country's civil war.