The report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission of Sri Lanka may lack credibility in international fora.

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During the final battle in which Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader Velupillai Prabakaran was killed,in May 2009.

Challenging tasks

R.K. RADHAKRISHNAN
in Colombo

The report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission of Sri Lanka may lack credibility in international fora.

EVERY time the international community pointed the finger at Sri Lanka's conduct of Eelam War IV, which ended in May 2009, and blamed the government forces for the unacceptably high number of civilian casualties, the government sought refuge in the fact that it had appointed a commission to go into the civil war and the events that took place after the breakdown of the truce with the Tamil Tigers in 2002.     Full Story>>>>
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