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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12366316" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtJP4UFPxBycWM-uIKGbsg9eJamoTKwiW-ttZfkJfBjLBYu64msg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />SRI LANKA will resist international pressure to hold an independent  investigation into war crimes allegations against government forces,  saying countries were bullied into supporting a UN resolution against it  by the US and other ''powerful countries''.              Its Foreign Minister, G.L.Peiris, said the countries  which supported Sri Lanka were ''acutely conscious of the danger of  setting a precedent which enables ad hoc intervention by powerful  countries in the internal affairs of other nations''.              The government would not bow to international demands for an inquiry, Mr Peiris said.             The UN's 47-member Human Rights Council this week passed  the resolution which called on Sri Lanka to allow an independent probe  into allegations the government committed war crimes during its civil  conflict against the separatist Tamil Tigers.                                                      Any probe could be acutely uncomfortable for the Sri  Lankan government, reaching to the very top of the Rajapaksa  family-dominated administration.              In Colombo, protesters took to the streets, condemning  the UN, and carrying pictures of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who, they  say, freed their country from terrorism.              The resolution, co-sponsored by the US, France and  Norway, said Sri Lanka's domestic investigation, the Lessons Learned and  Reconciliation Commission, did ''not adequately address serious  allegations of violations of international law''.              Carefully worded - and watered-down from its original  text - it demanded Sri Lanka ensured ''justice, equity, accountability  and reconciliation'', following the end of the 27-year war.              A UN panel of experts report last year found up to 40,000  civilians may have been killed during the government's final offensive  against the Tamil Tigers in the country's north in 2009. SMH </blockquote>

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