You expect something else from a government?
"Sri Lanka OK’s panel to mend postwar ties" November 24, 2011|Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s Parliament approved the creation yesterday of a multiparty committee to recommend constitutional changes for ethnic reconciliation two years after a devastating civil war.
But a lawmaker from the largest party representing ethnic minority Tamils said it would not participate in the committee at this time because the recommendations of a previous committee had never been implemented. “This too can be a time-buying tactic,’’ Suresh Premachandran of the Tamil National Alliance said.
The government has faced international criticism over lagging reconciliation efforts since the end of the 26-year war....
In the civil war, government forces crushed Tamil Tiger separatists who were fighting to create an independent Tamil state after decades of marginalization by governments controlled by the Sinhalese majority. Between 80,000 and 100,000 people are believed to have died.
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"Sri Lanka panel says civilians not targets" December 17, 2011|Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A government-appointed commission has concluded that Sri Lanka’s military did not intentionally target civilians at the end of the country’s civil war and that ethnic rebels routinely violated international humanitarian law.
Yeah, they just happened to be standing in the way.
And yeah, maybe the Tamils are guilty of crimes; howevere, I'm tired of war-criminal government pots hollering kettle.
The conclusions from the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission report, which was presented to Parliament yesterday, contradict an extensive United Nations report that accused the government of deliberately shelling civilian areas and possibly killing tens of thousands of people in the final months of the conflict.
So why aren't the leaders being dragged to the Hague?
Related: U.S. Helps Sri Lanka Hold Tamil Tigers By Tail
Oh.
Human rights groups and the UN experts panel have called for an international war crimes probe, arguing that the government could not be expected to conduct a credible investigation of its own behavior during the conflict, which ended in May 2009. The government is expected to argue that the report makes an international investigation unnecessary....
In other words, it's a self-serving piece of shit.
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Had 'em all penned into a 7 or 8 square mile area, 'eh? And shelled away?
Not much mention of the concentration camps, either.
