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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10389580" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8wSZMpABKB0/TUU2L1TDklI/AAAAAAAAACg/nouYUA3rZs8/s320/Alistair%2BBurt.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka must investigate allegations of atrocities committed during  its civil war after more video footage was aired claiming to show  "horrific scenes" of bound prisoners being executed, Britain said on  Wednesday.  British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said a  failure to probe the claims of human rights abuses at the end of the  25-year war with guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam  (LTTE) could lead to international action against Colombo.  Burt's comments came after Britain's Channel 4 broadcast a documentary  "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields" late on Tuesday which appeared to show the  summary execution of Tamil prisoners by government soldiers. The  new video evidence, allegedly captured on mobile phones, showed three  people including a woman, who appeared to be bound and blindfolded,  being shot. "I was shocked by the horrific scenes I saw in the documentary," Burt said in a statement.  "The recent UN Panel of Experts' report, this documentary and  previously authenticated Channel 4 footage, constitutes convincing  evidence of violations of international humanitarian and human rights  law. "The whole of the international community will expect the Sri Lankans to give a serious and full response to this evidence."  Last month, other footage obtained by Channel 4 which apparently showed  soldiers executing naked men and women, led to condemnation from  Christof Heyns, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary  or arbitrary executions. Heyns said the video was, on the face of it, convincing evidence of "serious international crimes".   Sri Lankan authorities rejected the footage as falsified and accused  the United Nations of bias and jumping to hasty conclusions.  Colombo has also accused the international community of trying to  pre-empt its own Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission.  Burt said Britain had been calling for a thorough, independent probe  into claims of war crimes since the conflict ended in 2009. He  said the government now expected to see progress by the end of the year,  a message he had reiterated to Sri Lanka's foreign minister on Tuesday.   "If the Sri Lankan government does not respond we will support the  international community in revisiting all options available to press the  Sri Lankan Government to fulfil its obligations," he warned.Reuters</blockquote>

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