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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7737552" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://www.mediaindonesia.com/spaw/uploads/images/article/image/20100619_095707_mar.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The head of a UN panel probing alleged war crimes during Sri Lanka's  civil war has criticised a decision by Colombo to block him and  colleagues from entering the country, a report said Friday.Marzuki  Darusman, a former Indonesian attorney general, was named Tuesday to  lead a team advising UN chief Ban Ki-moon on possible war crimes  committed in Sri Lanka during its 37-year separatist war that ended in  2009."Everybody loses out if we cannot go to Sri Lanka, it will  make it harder for the truth to be unearthed," Darusman told the BBC,  describing Sri Lanka's decision to ban them as "most unfortunate."His  remarks came after Sri Lanka's External Affairs minister Gamini  Lakshman Peiris said Colombo will not grant visas to members of the  panel.The panel was "totally unnecessary," Peiris said Thursday.He  said Sri Lanka had announced its own commission into the end the war,  which pitched government troops against Tamil Tiger separatists, and  post-conflict ethnic reconciliation.The UN panel was set up after  international pressure for an independent probe into allegations that  Tamil civilians were killed by government troops and that surrendering  rebels were also executed in cold blood.The United States, which  has been pushing for a war crimes probe, urged Colombo to "take  advantage" of the UN initiative.Ban has asked his three-member  panel to complete its work in four months.When the panel was  named on Tuesday, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky emphasised it had a mostly  consultative role and that "primary responsibility for investigating  rests with the authorities of Sri Lanka".However, many diplomats  see the UN's move as a precursor to a full-blown war crimes  investigation.The UN itself has said that at least 7,000 Tamil  civilians perished in the first four months of 2009 before the  government secured final victory over the Tigers that May.<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hzyfRUJjGx4ySK2vjTfuO62vFSZA" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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