2012-11-15 15:02:53

UN says it will learn lessons after Sri Lanka report


November 15, 2012: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has vowed on Wednesday that U.N. agencies would learn from their mistakes, after a damning draft report on the final months of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
The 128-page draft report, which focuses on the United Nations performance during Sri Lanka’s civil war found that the United Nations failed “to adequately respond to early warnings, and to the evolving situation during the final stages of the conflict and its aftermath, to the detriment of hundreds of thousands of civilians and in contradiction with the principles and responsibilities of the U.N."
United Nations spokesperson Martin Nesirky says, the report makes it clear, U.N. agencies failed to protect innocent citizens.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said he would set up a "senior-level team" to consider recommendations in the light of the report and advise him on future action.
Sri Lanka's government has repeatedly rejected allegations that it committed war crimes at the end of its quarter-century fight against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam rebels.
It also rejected suggestions in the report that it had intimidated UN officials.
A separate U.N. report released last year said up to 40,000 ethnic minority Tamil civilians may have been killed in the war’s final months.








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