Soldiers scan the area where an airplane flown by a Tamil Tiger pilot was shot down by Sri Lanka's military on Friday evening, near the international airport of Colombo February 21, 2009. REUTERS/Buddhika Weerasinghe
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Government forces were behind most of the alleged war crimes in the final bloody months of Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war and may have systematically destroyed evidence of mass killings, according to a new Australian report.
The report by Australia's Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd, a non-profit policy group, detailed witness accounts of potential war crimes such as deliberate artillery attacks on hospitals, rape, torture, sexual violence and the murder of Tamil Tiger fighters who had surrendered.
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