has said it has no faith in an international investigation into the alleged human rights abuses occurred during the civil war in the country.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s special envoy on human rights and Government Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said that Sri Lanka feels an international investigation will lack credibility and will not be independent, Xinhua reported.
Samarasinghe was speaking to reporters after meeting some of the island’s leading Buddhist monks and briefing them on the latest developments in the country.
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last month passed a resolution, calling for an international investigation in Sri Lanka over allegations that human rights abuses were committed during the war between Tamil Tiger rebels and the army.
A most wanted rebel member identified as Gobi and two others were killed following a confrontation with the army Thursday.
The Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tiger rebels fought a 30-year civil war before the rebels were defeated in May 2009. (IANS)