Awwal 17, 1432 H / April 21, 2011, SPA -- Sri Lanka has warned the United Nations that publicly releasing a report on alleged war crimes as its civil war was ending could harm efforts at post-war ethnic reconciliation, according to AP. External Affairs Minister Gamimi Peiris said Thursday that the U.N. panel overstepped its mandate and became an investigator rather than an advisory body to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The report handed to Ban last week harshly criticized the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels on their conduct and said there were credible war crimes allegations against both sides. The U.N. has not released the report officially, but media reports have described parts of it.
