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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12387066" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStBC8LvUDMUZBA0JAKG6nL1_JhBav8ei_UnSmpzCDVWXlq-Z5Jcw" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka will not implement all proposals from its civil war  commission because the panel went beyond its mandate, a government  minister said Monday after a U.N. rights council called for the report's  implementation.The commission's report dismissed allegations  that government troops deliberately targeted civilians as the long civil  war was ending in 2009 but also proposed that complaints of isolated,  civilian killings by government troops be investigated. It also said the  defeated Tamil Tiger rebels committed serious human rights violations.When  the government presented the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation  Commission's report in Parliament in December, it promised the proposals  would be implemented.Irrigation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva  said "the government will have to carefully consider the content of the  report and take a decision as to which part of the report has to be  implemented."In certain areas, the report "has gone beyond the  mandate of the LLRC," he said at a news conference with six government  ministers. Silva refused to elaborate on which parts the government  thought were beyond the commission's mandate.The government  appointed the LLRC in 2010 after an expert panel appointed by U.N  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon started investigating the conduct of both  sides in the civil war.The U.N. report found credible allegations  of war crimes against the Sri Lankan government, including deliberate  shelling of civilians and blocking food and medical supplies for them.  Both reports found evidence the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels were  responsible for serious violations.The U.N. Human Rights Council  in Geneva last week passed a resolution urging Sri Lanka to implement  the local commission proposals and investigate allegations of summary  executions, kidnappings and other abuses its troops were accused of.It  also asked the government to present a comprehensive action plan  detailing the steps implementing the recommendations made in the  commission's report.Sri Lanka has called the resolution an  interference in the country's internal affairs and has said it could  harm attempts at reconciliation. But human rights groups and ethnic  Tamil politicians have praised the resolution as an opportunity for the  country to build peace.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham  Clinton has urged Sri Lanka to implement the constructive  recommendations of the LLRC and "take the necessary measures to address  accountability."The U.S., which brought the resolution, has said  pressure would grow for an international investigation to be launched if  Sri Lanka failed to investigate alleged abuses properly.<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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