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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12157709" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS3C__Tf93sswq9HnlQj_f-FTJYG-zJMdzcd8_BJPl4KJBX_iHQ1A" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka on Thursday vowed to hold mass protests against US-backed  moves at the United Nations to press for an independent probe into  alleged war crimes during the island's civil war.Government  spokesman Susil Premajayantha said rallies would be organised across Sri  Lanka to display opposition to the planned proposal at next week's  Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva."We will organise  demonstrations to show that the people of this country are with the  government. They are against the Western forces," Premajayantha told  reporters.He said the US was leading moves to bring a resolution  against Sri Lanka at the UN council, but Colombo was confident of being  able to block it."We have lobbied member countries and the  feedback that we have is very positive," he said. "We will be able to  block any resolution against us."Human rights groups say up to  40,000 civilians perished in the final months of the government's  military campaign to crush the Tamil Tigers in 2009, but Colombo  maintains no civilians were killed by its troops.Last week, the US made it clear that it would support moves against Sri Lanka in Geneva.Sri  Lanka has avoided censure at previous meetings thanks to backing from  Russia and China. India, the island's closest neighbour, has also  supported Colombo in fending off censure.The military last week  announced appointing a five-member panel to probe allegations of  excesses -- an apparent change in the government's approach to charges  of war crimes.The UN estimates some 100,000 people died during  Sri Lanka's decades-long ethnic conflict, which ended with the killing  of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leadership.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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