Sri Lanka president uses U.N. speech to assail war crimes probe

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa assailed the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday in his address to the U.N. General Assembly, calling its probe into Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war disproportionate and politically motivated. Sri Lanka has refused to cooperate with the Human Rights Council's investigation into the deaths of some 100,000 people since it was announced in March, despite mounting international pressure to issue visas to U.N. investigators. ...




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