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Aid-worker killings: HRW wants world Inquiry


The rights group Human Rights Watch yesterday called on the United Nations Secretary-General or any other UN body to set up an international commission of inquiry to investigate the killings of the ACF workers and other human rights abuses by all parties to the armed conflict in Sri Lanka.
In a statement on the third anniversary of the ACF killings, the New York based HRW’s legal and policy director James Ross said the Sri Lankan government's gross mishandling of the investigation into the execution-style slaying of 17 aid workers in the northeastern town of Mutur three years ago demonstrated the need for an international commission of inquiry.

Since mid-July this year, government action in the case -- in which no one has been arrested, let alone convicted -- raised further concerns about an already deeply troubling investigation, the HRW said.The aid workers -- 16 Tamils and one Muslim, were engaged in a program to help survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. "For three years since the ACF massacre, the Rajapaksa government has put on an elaborate song and dance to bedazzle the international community into believing justice is being done," Mr. Ross said. On July 14, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, created in November 2006 to investigate 16 major cases of human rights violations, publicly announced its findings in the ACF case. The commission exonerated the Sri Lankan army and navy in the ACF killings, primarily on limited witness testimony that these forces were not in the vicinity at the time. Human Rights Watch called for the United Nations secretary-general or any other UN body to create an international commission of inquiry to investigate the ACF killings.

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