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Monday, April 18, 2011

Sri Lanka 'war crimes' is 'Srebrenica moment'


 
Monday 18 April 2011
The former UN spokesman in Sri Lanka Gordon Weiss tells Channel 4 News that a leaked UN report into "credible allegations" of war crimes represent Sri Lanka's "Srebrenica moment". 
A young Tamil boy stands behind a barbed-wire fence in the Menikfam Vanni refugee camp located near the town of Chettekulam in northern Sri Lanka (Reuters)Click on the image above to read more of Channel 4 News' coverage on the Sri Lanka war.
Click on the image above to read more of Channel 4 News' coverage on the Sri Lanka war

The UN is also criticised in the reporting for failing "to take actions that might have protected A leaked United Nations report estimates that tens of thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the LTTE - known as the Tamil Tigers in 2009.

 Sri Lanka 'war crimes' is 'Srebrenica moment'

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s against a UN report.
The leaked summary of the report allege that war crimes were committed at the end of the civil war when the government troops crushed the rebels.
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