(September 12, 2011) The United Nations top human rights official says she expects
a hotly contested report on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka to be referred to the
global body's Human Rights Council. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi
Pillay told The Associated Press that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon would likely
transmit the report on Monday. The report found evidence of possible war crimes by
both Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels during the final weeks of the civil
war in 2009. Ban Ki-moon said in April that he would welcome a mandate from the Human
Rights Council to launch an international probe into the allegations. Sri Lanka's
government rejects the report's findings and says it opposes an outside investigation.