Two advocacy groups have asked Swiss authorities to pursue war crime charges against a former Sri Lankan army commander now serving as a German diplomat.
The groups, Society for Threatened Peoples and TRIAL, filed a complaint Thursday with Switzerland's attorney general against Jagath Dias, a former major general in Sri Lanka's final offensive in 2009 that smashed a 26-year rebellion by ethnic minority Tamils.
The United Nations estimates between 80,000 and 100,000 people were killed in the war.
Dias now serves as Sri Lanka's deputy ambassador in Germany but also has diplomatic status with Switzerland and the Vatican.
Sri Lanka's embassy in Berlin said it would provide comment or access to Dias later Thursday.
