Earlier release of OISL possible based on Human Rights Chief's 'judgement' No Fire Zone Sinhala language version 2015 from dougdougdoug on Vimeo. 13 March 2015Reiterating that the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Investigation into Sri Lanka (OISL) would be strengthened and released before 30 September the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Al Hussein, said that he would use his judgement to decide when exactly it was released. Speaking to NGOs at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Human Rights Chief Zeid, said,  “I said the report is going to be released so it will be released, it can be released tomorrow if I wanted to. That needs to be made clear.” “The report will be released a few weeks before its submission to the human rights council. Essentially the office can release it any time before. The judgement is with me for when I release the report.” Explaining that he expected to gather more information to strengthen the report over the coming months, the human rights chief added,  “Off course we are fully aware that the victims will feel alarmed, who may see that a justice delayed could result in a justice denied.”  Human Rights Chief Zeid to look into Sri Lanka's rejection of OISL and atrocities evidence Photograph: Tamil Guardian The High Commissioner for Human Rights Prince Zeid al-Hussein said on Friday that he will look into the new Sri Lankan president’s rejection of a visit by the OHCHR team to Sri Lanka and rebuttal of credible evidence of mass atrocities. Responding to a question by Tamil Guardian regarding the new Sri Lankan president’s rejection to allow the OISL team into Sri Lanka, and rebuttal of mass atrocities evidence from Channel 4 News, he said,  “I haven’t seen these reports yet and will have to look into the alleged reports. The Sri Lankan government has given me its commitment to accountability and working with the UN. In the past the new president has also said he will not deny what happened in 2009.” We will not allow UN investigators to visit Sri Lanka says new president Tamil Guardian 12 March 2015 Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena says no UN officials will be allowed to visit the island to conduct investigations into mass atrocities. In an interview for the BBC Sinhala service, President Sirisena said the government had requested the UN to have faith in a domestic process. “No, we have made a clear statement requesting them to have faith on our domestic investigation,” he said in response to a whether the government would allow external investigators. “What we can do is to take UN's opinions in to consideration and strengthen the domestic mechanism accordingly. Therefore I don't think that we need anyone from outside to conduct the investigations. But of course, we can obtain their ideas to make our work more effective.” The president said it “was a victory” to gain the international community’s consent for conducting a domestic inquiry, when looking at the nature of the war crimes allegations. “When we consider the accusations that were made about the alleged human rights violations occurred in the last phase of the war, I think it is a victory that we succeeded in gaining the consent of the international community for a domestic mechanism,” he said. Mr Sirisena also dismissed the No Fire Zone documentary, which was recently released in the Sinhala language, despite admitting he hadn’t yet watched it. “I think we have to reject those things. I don't believe such things. Because we have questions regarding how they obtained all this information to change the situation in our country and to mislead the international community about the situation. Therefore I cannot comment on the content of the film as I haven't seen this film yet and don't even know what it contains. So I will only be able to comment on this after watching it. Apart from that, when consider what was there earlier, I totally reject such things.” Please see a translation of the full interview by JDS here. Speaking to the BBC World Service on Thursday, Tamil Guardian editorial board member Thusiyan Nandakumar said "given Sri Lanka's long and torturous history of failed commissions, criticised by human rights groups worldwide - Amnesty International called it '20 years of make believe' - there is a deep and justified scepticism with any sort of domestic process." "The Tamil people themselves have been very clear that they have no hope for justice under a domestic mechanism," he further added. "Tamil hopes now as we’ve seen with the recent spur in protests, rests with the international community… International pressure has been key to driving events forward in Sri Lanka."