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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 5792377" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka protests at US plan to quiz military chiefSri Lanka summoned the United States ambassador in Colombo on Monday to protest over US plans to quiz the island's military commander about alleged war crimes, a report said.The privately-run Daily Mirror newspaper said the Sri Lankan government objected to General Sarath Fonseka, currently visiting Oklahoma, being interviewed over his conduct during the conflict against Tamil Tiger rebels."A senior government official told Daily Mirror that General Fonseka was on an official visit to the USA and carried a diplomatic passport. Therefore the US government has no right to quiz General Fonseka," the report said.Sri Lanka's foreign ministry declined to comment on the report, while US embassy spokesman Jeff Anderson said his office "was looking into the matter."Officials said Sri Lankan diplomats in the US were having high-level discussions to prevent Fonseka from being questioned on Wednesday.Fonseka is a US Green Card holder and travelled to the US last week to visit his two daughters. He also addressed a group of Sri Lankans in Washington last week and took credit for leading the battle to crush the Tigers.The US plan has "prompted fears in Colombo that Washington is asserting its legal authority over the 'war crimes' report" released last month, the paper said referring to a State Department dossier on alleged war crimes.The report outlined excesses by security forces and Tiger rebels during the final stages of fighting earlier this year. The report, submitted to the US Congress, refers to Fonseka's having overstepped his brief.The report covered the period from January -- when fighting intensified -- until the end of May, when Sri Lankan troops defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the end of a decades-old separatist conflict.Sri Lanka last week announced it was appointing a panel to investigate the allegations after initially dismissing the report as "unsubstantiated."<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gBFty-EyfZiOcJd7rUpb1xySkeXA" target="_blank">AFP</a></blockquote>

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