{"id":60550,"date":"2012-11-16T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=60550"},"modified":"2012-11-16T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:37:26","slug":"tamils-want-inquiry-after-un-says-it-failed-civilians-in-bloody-sri-lanka-civil-war-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tamils-want-inquiry-after-un-says-it-failed-civilians-in-bloody-sri-lanka-civil-war-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamils Want Inquiry After UN Says It &#8216;Failed Civilians&#8217; In Bloody Sri Lanka Civil War &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance, Sri Lanka&#8217;s largest Tamil political party, on Thursday called for an international inquiry into a U.N. failure to protect civilians during the final stages of the country&#8217;s bloody 26-year civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The request comes a day after the United Nations admitted that it didn&#8217;t protect hundreds of thousands of civilians, mostly ethnic Tamils, trapped in areas of heavy shelling in Sri Lanka, a teardrop-shaped island nation off India&#8217;s southern coast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The internal inquiry report that has now come to light says the U.N. failed civilians by leaving the area,&#8221; 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