U.S. acknowledges complications in Sri Lanka war crimes investigation


  • World
  • Friday, 15 Jul 2016

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski speaks during a media briefing at the American Center in Hanoi, Vietnam May 11, 2015. REUTERS/Kham

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Implementing a U.N. resolution calling for the investigation of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka during a war with separatist rebels is complicated and needs more consultations to build confidence, a senior U.S. official said.

The United States along with other Western countries have long demanded an international investigation into the killing of thousands of ethnic minority Tamils in the final weeks of the war, in 2009, under then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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