UN: Sri Lanka failed to meet appointments investigate war crimes

Colombo (Reuters)-Sri Lanka has failed to fulfill promises to investigate serious human rights violations and allegations that thousands of civilians were killed in the final stages of the ethnic war in that country, the UNITED NATIONS said in a report.

HUMAN RIGHTS experts report that found that an investigation by the local government is not convinced and is not independent and impartial nature.

The report, seen by AFP on Wednesday, presented to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday.

"The steps being taken to investigate allegations of serious violations of HUMAN RIGHTS crimes are not conclusive and no independent and impartial nature," the report said.

The document, drawn up by experts who visited Sri Lanka in September, called on the Government to form a "truth search mechanisms" to "transitional justice" in a country that recently rose from nearly four decades of ethnic conflict.

According to the document, the severe human rights violations, including the killing of 17 aid workers from France charitable foundation in August 2006, was not investigated even though the Government has promised to immediately bring the perpetrators to justice.

Also there is no transparency in the investigation of claims about military killings without trial during the final stages of the war.

Sri Lankan troops launched a major offensive to crush the Liberation Tigers of Tamil rebel group Eelam ('S LTTE) in 2009 which ended the nearly four-decade ethnic war in the country.

However, the victory over Sri Lanka'S LTTE forces spark the widespread allegations of human rights violations.

In September 2011, Amnesty International based in London, quoting eyewitnesses and aid workers who said, at least 10,000 civilians killed in the final phase of the military offensive against Tamil Tiger guerrillas in May 2009.

In April 2011, the panel report was UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted the allegations of war crimes committed on both sides.

Sri Lanka criticised UN Commission report as "preposterous" and said the report was one-sided, and relies on subjective evidence from anonymous sources.

Sri Lanka rejects call for international investigation of war crimes and insisted that no civilians are being targeted by Government forces. However, HUMAN RIGHTS groups said, more than 40,000 civilians may be killed as a result of the action of both adversaries.

The Sri Lankan Government on May 18, 2009 announced the end of the decades-old conflict with the Tamil Tigers after troops put down the remnants of the rebel force and killed their leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.

Colombo's statement marked the end of one of the longest-running ethnic conflict and brutal in Asia, killing tens of thousands of people in a variety of battles, suicide attacks, bombings and assassinations.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ('S LTTE) Velupillai Prabhakaran has acknowledged that died in the attack on the Sri Lankan Government forces.

The UNITED NATIONS estimates, more than 100,000 people were killed in the Tamil separatist conflict after the Tiger Tamil rebels appeared in 1972.

About 15,000 rebels battling the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil in the ethnic conflicts that in an attempt to set up an independent Tamil State.

Tamil communities reach about 18 percent of Sri Lanka's population totaled 19.2 million people and they are concentrated in the provinces of the North and East of the rebel-controlled. The majority of the population of Sri Lanka is Sinhala residents. (M014)

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The system has failed - Miliband

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27 September 2011 Last updated at 14:33 GMT By Brian Wheeler Political reporter, BBC News, in Liverpool Ed Miliband: 'We will manage your money properly'

David Cameron represents the "last gasp" of an old system that does not work anymore, Ed Miliband has told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.

The Labour leader claimed Britain was crying out for a new kind of society in which the right people - responsible "grafters" - are properly rewarded.

He attacked "predatory asset-stripping" firms and anti-social housing tenants.

And he vowed to fight for a new bargain in our economy so reward is linked with effort".

The Labour leader was speaking against a backdrop of falling poll ratings and attacks from union leaders leaders angry at his decision not back a TUC day of action over pension changes.

'Wrong values'

But he opted to eschew big policy announcements in favour of setting out his personal philosophy and why he feels the country needs to change.

He admitted that Labour had "lost trust" on the economy but he said he was determined to regain it - and he vowed that the "next Labour government will only spend what it can afford".

But he said shadow chancellor Ed Balls had been "right" to call for a slowdown in spending cuts - and he pleaded with David Cameron to change course on the economy.

"Recognise what is staring you in the face - and understand that protecting our economy matters more than protecting your failed plan," he advised the prime minister.

He told delegates the phone hacking scandal, the banking crisis and the summer riots "point to something deep in our country - the failure of a system, a way of doing things, an old set of rules.

"An economy and a society too often rewarding not the right people with the right values, but the wrong people with the wrong values."

He said moral decline was due to the way successive governments - including New Labour - had chosen to run the country.

'Down the river'

Some of what Margaret Thatcher did - such as council house sales, punitive tax rates and ending the union closed shop and strikes without ballots - had been "right".

And New Labour also achieved much, he argued, but "we did not do enough to change the values of our economy," said the Labour leader.

And the result was a society in which vested interests such as the energy companies and banks prospered and the wrong people - such as Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin - got the most rewards, argued Mr Miliband.

He earned loud cheers from delegates for attacking what he called Britain's "fast buck" culture - saying the country had to learn the lesson that "growth is built on sand if it comes from our predators and not our producers".

He praised companies that contribute to society and accused the government of selling BAE Systems and train maker Bombardier "down the river".

He ended with a sustained attack on David Cameron accusing of betraying public trust on the NHS - and gained a standing ovation with his message: "You can't trust the Tories with the NHS".

He said: "If you want someone who will rip the old rules so that the country works for you, don't expect it from this prime minister.

"On the 50p tax rate, on the banks, on the closed circles of Britain, on welfare, on the NHS, he's not about a new set of rules. He's the last gasp of the old rules."

CBI director general John Cridland said: "With growth weak, Ed Miliband is looking for a new business model, but he must be careful not to characterise some businesses as asset strippers."

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