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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7684618" data-attributes="member: 92282">The United Nations should by next week name a panel to advise  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on accountability for potential war crimes  in Sri Lanka, the world body’s top political official said on Thursday.The Sri Lankan government has urged Ban not to appoint  the advisory panel, saying it has its own commission to investigate  possible rights violations at the end of its war with the Tamil Tiger  separatists in May 2009.             Rights groups took advantage of the anniversary of the  defeat to renew pressure for a probe into the end of the war, in which  they say tens of thousands of civilians died in the cataclysmic final  battles. The government denies any war crimes took place.             Amid heavy Western pressure, Ban has insisted the panel  must go forward despite Sri Lanka’s urging against it, and assertion  that it is a violation of its sovereignty.             U.N. Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Lynn  Pascoe said Ban’s panel “will advise him on international standards and  comparative experiences with accountability. It will also be available  as a resource Sri Lankans can turn to.”             “I’m not going to pre-empt and provide you details of the  panel’s members or its broad mandate. I expect (Ban) to make the  announcement early next week,” Pascoe told reporters in Colombo at the  end of a two-day trip to the Indian Ocean island nation.             Last month, President Mahinda Rajapaksa named an  eight-person “Commission on Lessons Learned and reconciliation” to look  into the last seven years of the war. Pascoe said the United Nations is  interested in its progress.             Pascoe’s visit coincides with those of two senior White  House officials and a Japanese peace envoy on his 20th visit to Sri  Lanka, both of which come against the backdrop of renewed pressure for  an investigation into the war’s end.<a href="http://www.euronews.net/newswires/314731-un-panel-on-sri-lanka-to-be-named-next-week/" target="_blank">reuters</a></blockquote>

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