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UN rights chief accuses Lanka of sabotaging war crimes probe

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United Nations: The UN rights chief has accused Sri Lanka of sabotaging a UN-mandated war crimes probe into the country’s nearly three decades-long brutal civil war, saying the refusal to cooperate with the investigation raises concerns about the integrity of the government.
“This continuing campaign of distortion and disinformation about the investigation, as well as the insidious attempts to prevent possible bona fide witnesses from submitting information to the investigating team, is an affront to the United Nations Human Rights Council which mandated the investigation,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.
He criticised the continuing attacks by the government on the integrity of the UN Human Rights Office’s ongoing investigation into the alleged grave human rights violations and abuses in Sri Lanka and condemned the intimidation of human rights defenders and individuals who may wish to cooperate with the investigation. (PTI)

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