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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11208509" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://www.securitymanagement.com.au/content/image/library/robert-mcclelland.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Australian Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has refused  to allow a war crimes case against the Sri Lankan president to proceed  in Australia.Retired engineer Jegan Waran, 63, has filed charges  in the Melbourne Magistrates Court against Mahinda Rajapaksa, claiming  civilian targets were bombed in 2009 during Sri Lanka's civil war. The president has arrived in Perth for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).Mr  McClelland's consent is needed for such cases to proceed. His office  issued a statement saying he would be in breach of international laws  which provide immunity to heads of diplomatic missions if he allowed the  case to go ahead."Those immunities include personal  inviolability including from any form of arrest or detention and  immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving state," a  spokesman for Mr McClelland said.ABC Australia</blockquote>

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