Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu does his 67 minutes of community service on Mandela Day 2013 as he paints a wall at Marconi Beam Primary School in Marconi Beam, Cape Town, July 18, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Wessels
NEW DELHI, Nov 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A boycott of a meeting of Commonwealth leaders this month in Sri Lanka could help pressure Colombo to address alleged war crimes against minority Tamils, South African peace campaigner and Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Thursday.
The Sri Lankan government, which defeated separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009, is under increasing pressure from the international community to try those responsible for rights abuses during the nearly three-decade-long conflict.
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