SriLanka Won’t Heed to Calls for Independent Inquiry
Posted by admin . Published on 31 May 2009, Received
Various Aid agencies and the United Nations have called for an independent inquiry into the war related crimes and deaths in Sri Lankan war which seems to have concluded. However, Sri Lanka has dismissed the calls into claims of human rights abuses by the military, saying its own courts will investigate. Foreign minister Rohita Bogollagama said the claims that heavy weaponry was used in civilian areas during the war with Tamil rebels were “fictional”. He said the claims were being used to boost accusations of genocide against the country’s Tamil minority.
