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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 6927383" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka has  rejected a UN proposal to set up an advisory panel in the wake of  alleged human rights abuses during the final phase of the war between  government forces and the Tamil Tigers.    President  Mahinda Rajapaksa said the UN move was “unwarranted” and would be  perceived as “interference” in Sri Lanka’s internal matters.                            In  a telephonic conversation with the secretary-general, the president  said: “It was unprecedented and unwarranted as no such action had been  taken against other states with continuing armed conflicts, involving  major humanitarian catastrophes and causing deaths of large number of  civilians.”                            Rajapaksa  was responding to Ban’s letter dated February 25 in which he had  proposed to form an independent panel on the basis of allegations of  human rights violations during the military action against the  Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last year.                            After  months of fighting, the LTTE was military crushed in May, leaving  thousands dead and ending one of the most protracted separatist  campaigns.                            The  UN chief was told that Sri Lanka had concluded its conflict with the  world’s most ruthless terrorist organisation more than nine months ago  and was in the process of working out national reconciliation, a  statement by the presidential secretariat said.                           The  UN move would be perceived as interference in the current election  campaign in the country, the president told the UN chief, adding he  would also write a letter to the world body.                            Rajapaksa  said that the allegations about human rights violations were motivated  misrepresentations by the LTTE sympathasisers and some organisations  working on agenda that was directed against Sri Lanka.                            The  president informed the UN that he had already appointed a special  committee to study the allegations of human rights violations and other  charges reported by the US State Department.                            Rajapaksa  warned that appointment of a UN panel would compel Sri Lanka to take  “necessary action”.                                      Sri  Lanka looks forward to treatment as per the UN charter that provides  for equal treatment to all members of the UN while respecting the  principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of states, he  said.<a href="http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Philippines+%26+South+Asia&month=March2010&file=World_News2010030852546.xml" target="_blank">IANS</a>          </blockquote>

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