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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12160938" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTOGB4HQ74K3WnBTfecT3CmdiFdjD8wpGtnHfcD0MFlp4m8XJe8Ag" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The United States said Thursday it wanted Sri Lanka to take "concrete  steps" on reconciliation as the Colombo government vowed mass protests  against US-backed calls for a UN censure on human rights.Sri  Lanka has faced strong international criticism over the bloody finale of  its civil war in 2009 but has avoided censure at the UN Human Rights  Council amid hopes overseas that Colombo would come up with a domestic  plan.The United States said this month that it would support a motion at the Geneva-based body's upcoming meeting.Sri  Lanka appointed the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission on the  war. But State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Sri Lanka had not  followed up on the panel's "many strong recommendations.""To  date, frankly, we've not seen a detailed action plan from the government  of Sri Lanka on how it's going to implement these recommendations,"  Toner told reporters."We still encourage the government of Sri  Lanka to move forward, to take concrete steps on this implementation  plan," he said. "At the same time, we're working with our partners in  Geneva on a resolution within the UNHRC that calls for actions on  important steps toward reconciliation."Human rights groups say up  to 40,000 civilians perished in the final months of the government's  military campaign to crush the Tamil Tigers, who waged a bloody  decades-long campaign for a separate homeland for the Tamil minority.Sri Lanka maintains that no civilians were killed by its troops.In  Colombo, government spokesman Susil Premajayantha said rallies would be  organized across Sri Lanka to show that people "are against the Western  forces" that support the proposal in Geneva.Sri Lanka's  relations with the West have sharply deteriorated since the end of the  civil war, with the Tamil diaspora leading campaigns to pressure  Colombo.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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