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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11669771" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/nuland1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The United States on Monday voiced concern over a Sri Lankan  commission's report on the end of the island's civil war and urged the  government to address human rights allegations more fully.In a  400-page report released last week, the government-created commission  cleared the military of charges that it deliberately targeted civilians  as it wiped out the Tamil Tiger leadership in 2009, ending decades of  war.State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the  Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission made some "substantive  recommendations" in areas such as media freedom and human rights  violations."While we're still studying the full report, I do have  to say that we have concerns that the report nonetheless does not fully  address all the allegations of serious human rights violations that  occurred in the final phase of the conflict," Nuland told reporters."We  urge the Sri Lankan government not only to fulfill all of the  recommendations of the report as it stands, but also to address those  issues that the report did not cover," she said.However, Nuland  stopped short of endorsing calls by major human rights groups for the  establishment of an international investigation into alleged abuses."We've  long said that it is better for Sri Lankans to take these issues  themselves and address them fully. That remains our position," she said.The  United Nations estimates some 100,000 people perished during the  37-year ethnic conflict. Rights groups charge that thousands of  civilians died in the final offensive against the Tamil Tiger rebels.Sri  Lanka has strongly rejected foreign criticism and said that its own  investigation will suffice. It narrowly escaped censure by the UN Human  Rights Council in September.<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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