Colombo: Under pressure from his main opponent in next month'selections, Sri Lanka's president has promised a judicial inquiry into allegations his troops killed thousands of Tamil civilians at the end of the civil war.
But President Mahinda Rajapakse on Tuesday reiterated he would not cooperate with a UN-mandated investigation into the government's 2009 crushing of the Tamil Tiger rebellion.
"If any rights have been violated (during the war), justice will be ensured through a transparent domestic judicial mechanism," Mr Rajapakse said in his election manifesto. It did not say how this would differ from an inquiry he ordered in July, following intense foreign pressure to account for the 2009 killing of Tamil civilians.
