UN to review its actions during Sri Lanka's war

BBC Sinhala
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United Nations is to review its actions during the war in Sri Lanka and its aftermath.

The Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has appointed Thoraya Obaid, former executive director of the UN population fund to lead this review.

The review will be conducted on the recommendation of the Expert Panel appointed by the Secretary General to advice him on possible war crimes in the last months of the war in 2009.

In a letter to the president of the Human Rights Council, the UN Secretary General said “on my Expert Panel’s recommendation that I should conduct a review of actions by the United Nations system during the war in Sri Lanka and its aftermath regarding the implementation of its humanitarian and protection mandates”.

The report released in April 2011 by the Expert Panel, recommended that the Secretary should conduct a comprehensive review of actions by the UN system during the war.

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