News: U.S. State Department

05/07/2011 | Aftenposten (Norway)
TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN VIA GOOGLE TRANSLATE: In March, warned the U.S. ambassador, Robert Blake, of a humanitarian disaster. In a meeting with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Blake made it clear that if the government forces continued in the same pace they did last time, it would lead to tens of thousands of fatalities, which likely would cause international condemnation and accusations of war crimes.
08/11/2010 | U.S. State Department
This report is submitted pursuant to the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-117), which directed “the Secretary of State to submit, not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, a report supplementing the Secretary’s October 21, 2009, report on crimes against humanity in Sri Lanka detailing what, if any, measures have been taken by the Government of Sri Lanka and international bodies to investigate such incidents, and evaluating the effectiveness of such efforts.”