A crackdown precedes a new report on the end of the civil war

Sri Lanka and war crimes   -  Keep quiet and carry on

Apr 14th 2011 | COLOMBO | from the print edition

SRI LANKA’S government has got its retaliation On April 12th a panel of experts delivered a report to the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, assessing whether war crimes were committed when the nation’s army bloodily won a long-running civil war against Tamil Tiger rebels early in 2009. The report has not yet been made public, but the government is furious that an independent inquiry took place at all. The report, it says, is “fundamentally flawed” and biased.    Full Story ...