Colombo, Sept 14 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government has denounced the call to submit a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council that accused troops of killing thousands of civilians in the final stages of the war.
The largest Tamil party in Sri Lanka recently launched a blistering attack on the government in this connection.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), once seen as a proxy for the Tamil Tigers, accused the government of not telling the truth to the international community and of not keeping its promises on post-war reconciliation.
TNA claimed that the government was engaged in a "constant flow of misinformation" to the international community and was ignoring recommendations from its own war commission on issues such as the disarming of pro-government militias.
According to the BBC, the Sri Lankan government regards the report, published in April, as having no official status.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky recently said in a statement that the 'Sri Lankan government has been informed of the secretary general's decision to share the report with the council and the high commissioner'.
"While the secretary general had given time to the government of Sri Lanka to respond to the report, the government has declined to do so, and instead has produced its own reports on the situation in the north of Sri Lanka, which are being forwarded along with the panel of experts report," Nesirky added.
Meanwhile, the UN panel, which gathered evidence into the war, accused both the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for committing human rights violations during the final stages of the conflict in 2009.
It concluded that, "most civilian casualties in the final phases of the war were caused by government shelling". (ANI)
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