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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11413866" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/media/ALeqM5gYV1RwaD6H7D_a6T3neu0ienOQTQ?docId=photo_1321772235268-1-0&size=l" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A Sri Lankan government probe into the civil war against Tamil  rebels has called for further investigations of alleged war crimes  committed in the final stages of fighting in 2009, according to a  report.The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC),  which has been widely criticised as biased by international rights  groups, concluded that some evidence warranted a new inquiry, the local  Sunday Times said.The commission was due to hand over its report  to President Mahinda Rajapakse later Sunday, but it is not clear when it  will be published.The 400-page dossier "will ask the government  to investigate incidents that may have occurred during the final stages  of the war", the Sunday Times said, adding that "information points to  prima facie evidence but no names named".Both government forces  and the Tamil Tiger separatists have been accused of war crimes in the  months before the rebels were finally wiped out in May 2009, ending  decades of warfare on the island.The LLRC, appointed in May last  year, was not mandated to probe war crimes but asked to find out why a  Norwegian-brokered 2002 truce failed and to recommend ways to prevent  the island slipping back to ethnic conflict.The Sunday Times said  that the LLRC had also described a documentary by Britain's Channel 4  television alleging to show government troops executing suspected Tamil  rebels as a "total fabrication".A report in April by a panel  commissioned by UN chief Ban Ki-moon noted "credible allegations" of war  crimes committed by both sides. Colombo denied the claims, maintaining  that troops did not kill a single civilian.<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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