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UN calls on Sri Lanka to probe war crimes - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English

26.9.13

UN calls on Sri Lanka to probe war crimes - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English: As Australia and Britain were encouraging engagement, rather than isolation of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, Pillay said in the report that Sri Lanka might be sliding towards an authoritarian system, as President Mahinda Rajapaksa gathered power around him.

Her report said that she would recommend that the Council establish its own probe if the South Asian island nation does not show more "credible'' progress by March.

Pillay said the largely Buddhist South Asian state was also seeing a surge of violence against religious minorities - Christians, Muslims and Hindus - while the Colombo government stood by.


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