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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Rights watchdogs slam LLRC report

BBCSinhala.com 17 December, 2011

Sri Lanka war displaced (file photo: August 2009)
Watchdogs say the LLRC has been 'biased' and failed to investigate accountability issues

Slamming the government war panel report as a ‘whitewash,' international human rights watchdogs have re-iterated their call for an international inquiry into the alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka.
The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation (LLRC) in its report has concluded that the security forces did not deliberately target civilians in the last stages of the war against the Tamil Tigers.
The report has, however, accused the LTTE of gross human rights violations.       Full Story>>>