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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11158666" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://www.afp.gov.au/about-the-afp/executive-structure/%7E/media/afp/images/page-images/executive/negus-print.ashx" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/Australian_Federal_Police.png/130px-Australian_Federal_Police.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Australian police said Tuesday they were assessing a dossier containing  allegations of war crimes committed in Sri Lanka towards the end of the  island's civil war as a matter of "urgency".As Australia prepares to host a Commonwealth leaders summit which  includes Sri Lanka, Australian Federal Police commissioner Tony Negus  said the force was looking at the 500-page submission it received on  Friday."We asked for that to be assessed as a matter of urgency," Negus told a Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday.Negus was unable to say how long the probe would take, but said the matter "is being treated seriously".Prepared  by the International Commission of Jurists' Australian chapter, the  dossier contains testimonies from Sri Lankans now living in Australia  claiming they were attacked by government troops during the war that  ended in 2009.ICJ Australia president John Dowd said the brief  contains eyewitness evidence of the bombing and shelling of civilians  that refutes the Sri Lankan government's stance that civilians were not  targeted."As far as war crimes generally, we do take them seriously," Negus said, adding that the matter was a complex legal one.The  evidence was initially collected for an independent war crimes tribunal  but because one had not been established Dowd said the ICJ decided to  pass it on to Australian police.Australia can prosecute war  crimes committed in other countries, including acts of torture committed  outside Australia by a public official, or a person acting in an  official capacity or at the instigation of such a person.The  report does not identify individuals and Dowd has denied local media  reports that the dossier named President Mahinda Rajapakse and former  Navy chief Thisara Samarasinghe, now Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to  Australia.Sri Lanka has persistently denied that its troops  committed any war crimes while battling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil  Eelam (LTTE), who were crushed in an offensive that ended in May 2009,  bringing the 26-year conflict to an end.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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