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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10145533" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/125px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />India broke with past practice on Tuesday and called on Sri Lanka to  investigate allegations of human rights abuses during the island's civil  war, upping pressure on President Mahinda Rajapakse.India has  not joined recent demands from the United Nations and Western countries  for a probe into alleged war crimes committed during the final stages of  the conflict which ended in May 2009 with the crushing of Tamil rebels.During  a visit by Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris to New Delhi, India  "urged the expeditious implementation of measures by the government of  Sri Lanka, including... investigations into allegations of human rights  violations," a statement said.The strongly worded message comes  amid tensions over fishing rights in the sea separating the two  countries which have resulted in several Indian fishermen being shot  dead by the Sri Lankan navy.As well as a rights' investigation,  India also pushed for speedy resettlement of ethnic Tamils displaced by  fighting; "genuine reconciliation" with the ethnic minority group and  the early end of emergency laws.Sri Lanka is extremely sensitive  about interference in its internal affairs and has vigorously resisted  pressure for a war crimes investigation, insisting its own probe --  condemned by international human rights groups as a sham -- is  sufficient.In a military campaign that has since been dogged by  war crimes allegations, Sri Lanka's army defeated the Tamil Tiger  separatist rebellion in May 2009, ending 37 years of bloodshed.The  tropical Indian Ocean island is a mostly Buddhist nation ruled by the  majority Sinhala ethnic group, but with large ethnic Tamil populations  in the north and east.Peiris told reporters that Sri Lanka was  "forging ahead having left terrorism behind us," adding that the mood on  the island was one of "hope and aspiration for the future.""The  need of the hour is a sense of oneness and solidarity. The wounds of  past should be allowed to heal," he said. "This is a time for  rapprochement, to leave behind the pain and anguish of the past."He  defended the continuation of emergency rule two years after the end of  the island's civil war and said the country's judicial system was robust  enough to deal with rights abuses, if any were unearthed by an  investigating commission.<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i1lK86zK16F9M-A6Gs9tl7cZpqqw?docId=CNG.fcd18498901dd62df1538e51daf6cc5b.771" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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