Former Finnish President and laureate of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Martti Ahtisaari (L) talks with Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, one of three laureates of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, before the Conference on National Dialogue and Mediation Processes in Helsinki March 31, 2014. REUTERS/Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva
GENEVA (Reuters) - Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and two top human rights lawyers were named on Wednesday as advisers to a U.N. inquiry into war crimes in Sri Lanka which Colombo wants to halt.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted in March to set up the investigation into crimes allegedly committed by both Sri Lankan state forces and Tamil rebels during the conflict that ended in 2009, saying the government had failed to investigate properly.
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