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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12824578" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtnDoS_CHXjG90VgXaFBIENmnJWIsXElGkQaz2ZMm8DnD92RaCAg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka says human rights will be at the top of her agenda.                         Michele Sison said Wednesday that serious allegations of  violation of international human rights law committed during the island  nation’s civil war have yet to be investigated and have slowed  reconciliation. “One cannot have true reconciliation,” Sison told her Senate confirmation hearing, “without that accountability.”Sri  Lanka’s quarter-century civil war killed more than 80,000 people. It  ended in May 2009, when government forces crushed the rebels who had  fought for a separate state for ethnic minority Tamils, claiming decades  of discrimination by the Sinhalese majority.The island is now at  peace, but reports of rights violations persist and the government of  President Mahinda Rajapaksa is under international pressure to probe  abuses by both sides in the final months of the war. A U.N. report found  that thousands died and that Sri Lankan troops deliberately targeted  civilians. It said Tamil rebels used civilians as human shields.Democrat  Sen. Robert Casey urged an independent investigation into alleged war  crimes, saying the issue would not go away “until the world sees  results.”He said Sri Lanka has yet to implement recommendations  made six months ago by its own reconciliation commission, and cited  figures from the Switzerland-based Internal Displacement Monitoring  Center, that nearly 100,000 Tamils are still displaced. He said the  military presence in the island’s north and east was obstructing their  resettlement.Sison said the U.S. was looking for “near term  progress” by Sri Lanka, particularly in setting a date for provincial  elections in the country’s north and demilitarization of former conflict  zones.Sri Lanka has resisted calls from human rights groups to allow an international probe into the war crimes allegations.Sison  has served as ambassador to Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. She  is currently assistant chief of mission for law enforcement and rule of  law at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Associated_Press_logo_2012.svg/30px-Associated_Press_logo_2012.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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