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The US said yesterday it would work together with Sri Lanka’s new government to propose a resolution to a UN human rights forum that seeks to come to terms with the painful legacy of a 26-year civil war, reports Reuters.
Washington will move the resolution, to address responsibility for alleged human rights abuses and propose a framework for reconciliation, at next month’s UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva. “We have recognised that there is a different opportunity that exists today and a different landscape for trying to advance reconciliation,” Nisha Biswal, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs, told reporters in Colombo. “We look forward to a process in Geneva that allows an opportunity to reflect on that.”
Biswal said the thrust of the resolution would be decided after reviewing the findings of a UN investigation into war crimes alleged to have been committed in the final phase of the civil war that ended in May 2009. The UN has previously estimated that the final offensive claimed the lives of around 40,000 Tamil civilians.
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