Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
TAMILS: UN report says Sri Lanka bloodbath was a ‘grave failure’ for world body
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) receives a report from Charles Petrie, the head of an internal review panel on UN action in Sri Lanka, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Nov. 14, 2012. The internal United Nations report has strongly criticized its own officials for failing to protect civilians during the last days of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka, saying it could have done much more to save lives. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHI — A draft United Nations report says inadequate efforts by the world body to protect civilians in the bloody final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war marked a “grave failure” for the world body.
A copy of the draft report on the UN’s actions in Sri Lanka was obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, when a final version was being presented to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The BBC first reported on the draft report.
The report accused UN staff in Colombo of not perceiving that preventing civilian deaths was their responsibility and accused their bosses of not telling them otherwise. A UN report released last year said up to 40,000 minority Tamil civilians may have been killed in the final months of the quarter-century civil war, which ended in 2009.
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