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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11021849" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://i53.tinypic.com/6h1gsg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A Sri Lankan general serving as a UN diplomat in New York has  diplomatic immunity, the government in Colombo said Tuesday, after a US  court issued him with a summons over the island's bloody ethnic war.A  civil case has been filed against Major General Shavendra Silva on  behalf of two people whose relatives were killed in the final days of  the conflict, which ended in a military onslaught against Tamil  separatists in 2009.Silva, who is Sri Lanka's deputy permanent  representative to the United Nations, was served with the summons at his  New York residence on Friday.Sri Lanka's defeat of the Tamil  Tiger rebels after decades of fighting has attracted accusations that  both sides were guilty of atrocities in the final months of combat.One UN report accused Sri Lankan troops of killing thousands of civilians in bombing attacks."Ambassador  Shavendra Silva is protected by the relevant international treaties on  diplomatic relations, immunities and privileges," the Sri Lankan foreign  ministry said in a statement.Silva was commanding officer of the army's 58th Division, which played a key role on the war's frontline.A  UN panel of experts said in April that the Sri Lankan army killed most  of the tens of thousands of civilian victims of the final offensive in  2009, but both sides could have been guilty of war crimes.A  documentary shown on Britain's Channel Four in June said the military  shelled civilian targets and showed footage of what it said were  prisoner executions and the bodies of sexually assaulted Tamil Tiger  fighters.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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