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UN urges Sri Lanka to investigate deaths

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  March 23, 2012

A US initiative calling the Sri Lankan government to account for the loss of civilian life at the end of its civil war three years ago has won support from a clear majority of the UN Human Rights Council in the face of an exhaustive government campaign to block it. The 47 members of the council, which is based in Geneva, voted 24 to 15, with eight abstentions, in favor of a resolution urging Sri Lanka to implement the recommendations of the commission it had appointed to investigate events at the end of its civil war in 2009.

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