Panel to hand over SL report today

12 April 2011 06:18 am

The UN’s long delayed report on accountability for war crimes in Sri Lanka is now slated to be handed to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today (12), the Inner City Press reported quoting sources.

The report will not be made public at that time, they say, and perhaps it never will, it said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in June, 2010 named a three-member panel of experts to advise him on how he should proceed with investigating violations of human rights and humanitarian law during the concluding stages of that country's long-drawn-out separatist war May, 2009.

The panel was tasked to examine the modalities, applicable international standards and comparative experience with regard to accountability processes, taking into account the nature and scope of any alleged violations in Sri Lanka.