UN deferral must be used to make Sri Lanka war crimes report stronger

Pro-government supporters protest last year in Colombo against a UN resolution to investigate alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka (Credit: ucanews.com) 

• Ruki Fernando-February 23, 2015

This month, the UN Human Rights Council announced it would defer publication of a major report that investigates allegations of serious human rights violations and related crimes during the last years of Sri Lanka’s civil war. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, whose office had been entrusted with the task, had asked the council to delay the report’s release, originally scheduled for March, until September, based on a request by Sri Lanka's new government.
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