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A more than timely call for investigating the Sri Lankan Government

The Sri Lankan Government has taken up the tactics of the Israeli Government - and look is advising the Sri Lankans - in the way it deals with criticism of its actions let alone the way it has dealt, and continues to deal with, its Tamil population.

Now a more than timely call by the UN for an investigation of both the Sri Lankan's actions against the Tamils and the conduct of the Tamils.

"The United Nations is calling for an investigation into whether war crimes charges should be laid in relation to the civil war in Sri Lanka.

The UN released a damning report yesterday into the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians during the final months of the war.

The report finds fault with both the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers, but suggests the government was responsible for most of the deaths.

An estimated 330,000 people were trapped between the two sides as they fought fiercely in the last months of the long war in 2009.

The battles between the government and the Tamil Tiger separatists lasted almost three decades, but it was in the final five months that the UN says some of the worst atrocities against civilians occurred.

The report accuses the Tamil Tigers of using civilians as human shields and says thousands of others were killed by indiscriminate artillery shelling by the government.

James Ross, the legal and policy director at Human Rights Watch, said the report looked at the government's response both during and after the conflict."

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