{"id":120594,"date":"2014-02-26T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T07:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=120594"},"modified":"2014-02-27T01:07:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:37:38","slug":"sri-lanka-denounces-push-to-open-war-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-denounces-push-to-open-war-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Denounces Push To Open War Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"226\" data-total-count=\"226\"><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"More Articles by GARDINER HARRIS\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/h\/gardiner_harris\/index.html\" rel=\"author\">Gardiner Harris<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Dharisha+Bastians&amp;x=5&amp;y=6\">Dharisha Bastians<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"226\" data-total-count=\"226\">Sri Lanka\u2019s government on Tuesday forcefully rejected a call for an international war crimes investigation into the country\u2019s bloody civil war, adding to tensions with the United Nations\u2019 human rights body.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"361\" data-total-count=\"587\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mahinda-Navi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103059\" alt=\"Mahinda Navi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mahinda-Navi.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mahinda-Navi.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mahinda-Navi-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a>In its official\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-rejects-pillays-call-to-establish-an-international-inquiry-mechanism\/\">response<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to a highly critical\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/full-text-of-the-high-commissioner-pillays-74-point-report-on-sri-lanka\/\">report<\/a><\/span>\u00a0released on Monday by the United Nations\u2019 high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, the government said Ms. Pillay\u2019s call for an independent international investigation \u201creflects the preconceived, politicized and prejudicial agenda which she has relentlessly pursued with regard to Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"526\" data-total-count=\"1113\">The government dismissed accusations that its vast military presence in the northern part of the country was responsible for a surge in sexual violence against women; that the authorities had failed to return huge swaths of land to Tamil civilians, who are an ethnic minority; and that the government had undermined the independence of Sri Lanka\u2019s judiciary. It also said the reason it had not prosecuted anyone for massacres in which security forces are known to have taken part was that proof had been difficult to obtain.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-para-count=\"526\" data-total-count=\"1113\">Read more in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/26\/world\/asia\/sri-lanka-rejects-push-for-independent-war-inquiry.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140225&amp;tntemail0=y&amp;_r=1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">New York Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":120281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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