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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12087752" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://www.dailymirror.lk/images/blako2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The United States will support a U.N. human rights council resolution  asking Sri Lanka to implement recommendations its commission made on  the island nation's civil war, an American diplomat said Monday.The  resolution would let Sri Lanka explain how it intends to advance ethnic  reconciliation and accountability, said Maria Otero, under secretary of  state for civilian security, democracy, and human rights, on a visit to  the country.Sri Lanka appointed a commission to investigate  possible human rights violations after a 2010 report written for the  United Nations found allegations were credible and warranted a full  investigation.The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission  cleared Sri Lanka's military of allegations it deliberately targeted  civilians and deprived them of food and medicine as a tactic of war. It  did find that some violations by individual soldiers needed further  investigation.Sri Lanka's report also said the Tamil Tiger rebels  routinely violated international humanitarian law. The U.N. report  found abuse allegations credible on both sides, particularly in the  final deadly months of the quarter-century war that ended in May 2009.Otero commended the commission report but said "it has shortcomings on accountability.""I  urged the Sri Lankan government to share the details of their plans and  begin fulfilling the recommendations called in the report and to  credibly address outstanding issues of accountability," she said.President  Mahinda Rajapaksa assured American diplomats the commission report  would be implemented "in a comprehensive manner," Otero said.If  Sri Lanka's own efforts have shortcomings, pressure will grow for an  international investigation, said Robert O. Blake, the U.S. assistant  secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs.Efforts  are being made to bring a U.N. resolution before the Human Rights  Council at its meeting starting Feb. 27 in Geneva. The discussions about  it are ongoing.<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Associated_Press_logo.svg/120px-Associated_Press_logo.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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