Jason OverdorfDecember 19, 2011 
Displaced Tamil civilians watch as unseen French and British Foreign Ministers, Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband arrive at Kadirgamh camp in Chettikulam, northern Sri Lanka on April 29, 2009. (Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images)
NEW DELHI, India — The Sri Lankan government's efforts to erase from history the final months of its 25-year-long war against Tamil separatists hit a snag this week, as humanitarian organizations blasted the report of an internal probe into alleged human rights violations and possible war crimes as a whitewash.
Now, the fight for clarity, if not justice, may well depend on India.
The Sri Lankan government's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) posted its report on the last months of the civil war Dec. 16. But despite the government's hopes that the internal assessment would end calls for an international investigation, Human Rights Watch identified “serious shortcomings” in the 388-page report.
Most troubling, the LLRC largely exonerated government forces for alleged violations of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said. full story
