UNDP WATCH: BBC Exclusive: - UN 'failed Sri Lanka civilians', says internal probe

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

BBC Exclusive: - UN 'failed Sri Lanka civilians', says internal probe

Click here to read the full story on BBC NEWS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20308610

Displaced Sri Lankans in the Vanni area as a result of fighting between government forces and the LTTE

Hundreds of thousands of Tamils ended up trapped in a tiny strip of land

The United Nations failed in its mandate to protect civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war, a leaked draft of a highly critical internal UN report says.

"Events in Sri Lanka mark a grave failure of the UN," it concludes.
The government and Tamil rebels are accused of war crimes in the brutal conflict which ended in May 2009.
The UN's former humanitarian chief, John Holmes, has criticised the report.

Click here to read the full story on BBC NEWS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20308610

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