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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12365802" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfwPj4tFNkZZ24tXix5bWLRM8c7nzEUyePj9pR6xKhsKQnp40M" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The U.N. human rights office says Sri Lanka's government harassed activists who traveled to a meeting in Geneva this month to campaign for an investigation of alleged war crimes during the country's quarter-century conflict with the Tamil Tigers.A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says members of the 71-strong official government delegation were among those who intimidated activists ahead of Thursday's U.N. vote.Rupert Colville told reporters in Geneva on Friday that pro-government media in Sri Lanka had been running "a continuous campaign of vilification" of activists.He said Sri Lanka's ambassador in Geneva had also received an anonymous threat.<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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