GENEVA – The United Nations has put Sri Lanka on notice it could face an international probe unless it properly investigates suspected war crimes and other abuses from the civil war that ended in 2009.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says she has seen no new or comprehensive Sri Lankan effort to properly and independently investigate as the U.N.'s 47-nation Human Rights Council has repeatedly demanded.
In a report Wednesday, Pillay said she would recommend that the Council establish its own probe if the South Asian island nation does not show more "credible" progress by March.
Sri Lanka's Ambassador Ravinatha Pandukabhaya Aryasinha rejected the criticism, saying Sri Lanka has a "genuine and credible commitment" to reconciliation between the Sinhalese majority and the ethnic minority Tamils who lost the war.
