Lanka rejects war crimes allegations

Lanka rejects war crimes allegations

* Rights minister says govt wants ‘perpetrators of crimes identified and dealt with’

SRI LANKA- Sri Lanka’s government on Thursday defended itself against fresh allegations it was involved in a cover-up over the massacre of ethnic-Tamil employees of a French charity.

The island’s human rights minister, Mahinda Samarasinghe, said Colombo was determined to “show results” from its probe into the murders and a string of other cases, rejecting allegations the government wanted to bury the crimes. 

Dealing with perpetrators: “I am as desperate as anyone else to show results,” he told reporters, adding that each case was “complex” but that the government still wanted to see that “the perpetrators of these crimes are identified and dealt with.” He did not say when he expected the cases to be concluded.....

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