UN report detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka's civil war
Geneva:
A long-awaited UN report on Wednesday detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka's civil war and said the country needed international help to probe the crimes to enable reconciliation.
"A purely domestic court procedure will have no chance of overcoming widespread and justifiable suspicions fuelled by decades of violations, malpractice and broken promises," UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement, calling for "a hybrid special court, integrating international judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators."
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