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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11042337" data-attributes="member: 92282">Canada publicly criticized Sri Lanka over its human rights record for  the first time on Thursday, setting the scene for a confrontation at a  major international summit next month.  Sri Lanka is under  increasing Western pressure to probe allegations of war crimes and  humanitarian law violations at the end of its war with Tamil Tiger  separatists in 2009. Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said  he had told his Sri Lankan counterpart of Ottawa's "concerns on the lack  of accountability for the serious allegations of war crimes, the lack  of reconciliation with the Tamil community and with events that have  taken place since the end of the civil war". A diplomatic clash  looks likely when Canada and Sri Lanka come face to face in late October  at a summit of the 54-member Commonwealth of former British colonies in  the Australian city of Perth. Sri Lanka is due to host the summit in  2013. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, speaking to ethnic  media earlier this month, said he would boycott the 2013 event unless  Sri Lanka improved its human rights record and would encourage other  Commonwealth leaders to do the same.  "Canada will continue to  speak loudly and clearly on behalf of human rights around the world,  especially in Sri Lanka," Baird told the House of Commons.  Opposition legislator Jim Karygiannis went even further, asking Harper  "to urge the Commonwealth to revoke Sri Lanka's membership until it  holds the perpetrators to account and they are judged in international  courts". Sri Lanka's government says it is working hard on  reconciliation and is waiting for a report by a national commission of  inquiry on the war, due on Nov. 15. Amnesty International, which  dismisses the commission as "fatally flawed", says between 10,000 and  20,000 civilians died in the final months of the 25-year civil war.   Sri Lanka says its troops used only necessary and lawful force and  complains that the allegations of war crimes are biased and exaggerated.<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Reuters_logo.svg/100px-Reuters_logo.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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