COLOMBO (Sri Lanka): An official says Sri Lanka's president will appoint a commission to look into disappearances that occurred during the island nation's civil war.
The move comes as Sri Lanka faces rising international criticism for failing to investigate alleged war crimes during the final stage of the quarter century-long war, which ended in 2009, including civilian deaths and disappearances.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's spokesman, Mohan Samaranayake, said Friday that the names of the commission's members would be announced later.
A UN investigation has indicated that government troops might have killed as many as 40,000 minority ethnic Tamil civilians in the war's final months.
Rajapaksa's government initially denied that any civilian deaths occurred, but later agreed to investigate instances of alleged abuses.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Sri-Lanka-to-probe-wartime-disappearances/articleshow/21370083.cms
The move comes as Sri Lanka faces rising international criticism for failing to investigate alleged war crimes during the final stage of the quarter century-long war, which ended in 2009, including civilian deaths and disappearances.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's spokesman, Mohan Samaranayake, said Friday that the names of the commission's members would be announced later.
A UN investigation has indicated that government troops might have killed as many as 40,000 minority ethnic Tamil civilians in the war's final months.
Rajapaksa's government initially denied that any civilian deaths occurred, but later agreed to investigate instances of alleged abuses.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Sri-Lanka-to-probe-wartime-disappearances/articleshow/21370083.cms
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