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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11677738" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7Ad3Weap5FJYAdS6yW50dkvTAeBPrlwyWck4k7ycjZ8eB0NTk" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT9tA9vlFmceXueyJv_mjTzZ2NJG1rgJlpbrRE4gbDFx4JRVZEW" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Sri Lanka's president accused the United States on Tuesday of  unfairly singling out a government war commission for criticism after it  cleared the military of deliberately targeting civilians during the  country's civil war.President Mahinda Rajapaksa's office said he  told newspaper editors that the U.S. is demanding that Sri Lanka  immediately settle war accountability issues, while not criticizing  other countries that have been much slower in dealing with similar  post-conflict situations.He said the commission made a wide range  of recommendations for reconciliation but the U.S. only focused on the  final days of the conflict.The commission concluded last week  that government forces did not target civilians toward the end of the  war as alleged by human rights groups. On Monday, the U.S. State  Department expressed concern that it had not fully addressed all  allegations of serious violations.State Department spokeswoman  Victoria Nuland said the commission had made substantive recommendations  on issues including reconciliation, devolution of power,  demilitarization and disappearances. But she said it lacked a  comprehensive plan to act on them and left open questions about  accountability for alleged rights violations.Earlier this year, a  panel appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it found  credible allegations of serious violations by both government troops and  defeated Tamil Tiger rebels that could amount to war crimes. It said  tens of thousands of people may have been killed.Ethnic Tamil  lawmakers criticized the report on Monday, saying it damaged the chances  of genuine reconciliation between the country's embittered ethnic  groups. They called for an international war crimes investigation.<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Associated_Press_logo.svg/120px-Associated_Press_logo.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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