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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7552585" data-attributes="member: 92282">Aljazeera interview with President Mahinda Rajapaksa[YOUTUBE]<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YGQqwcxA6cg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YGQqwcxA6cg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]Sri Lanka president rejects war crimes probeSri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse has rejected international  calls for a war crimes probe into the final offensive against Tamil  Tiger rebels last year.In an interview with the Al-Jazeera  television news network on Thursday, Rajapakse said he would not  tolerate any outside review of a campaign that he insisted was solely  aimed at "defeating terrorism"."I don't want my internal matters  to be inquired by any other country or any other NGOs. We will look  after that," Rajapakse said.A transcript of the interview was  released by the president's office on Friday.Rajapakse stressed  that security forces had not targeted Tamil civilians and insisted that  no non-combatants were killed. He added, however, that he was prepared  to punish anyone found guilty of excesses.Government forces  defeated the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by wiping out  its top leadership on May 18 last year, ending a 37-year-old separatist  struggle.Sri Lanka has been under pressure to submit to an  international investigation after the United Nations reported that at  least 7,000 civilians perished in the final months of fighting."Be  fair with us ... be fair with us ... don't treat Sri Lanka like this  because we defeated terrorism," Rajapakse said.Last week,  Rajapakse named an eight-member "reconciliation commission" to study the  last stages of the war and to recommend ways to avoid a return to  ethnic conflict, but it had no mandate to probe war crimes.<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5htHo_XYjFQlVqo04bEgJMXbeXW9w" 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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