Sri Lanka fights against UN civil war inquiry

GENEVA (AP) — Sri Lanka on Wednesday rejected a U.S.-led call for accountability after the U.N.’s top human rights official recommended an international criminal investigation of abuses from the island nation’s civil war that ended in 2009.

U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay has recommended that the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council authorize an “independent international inquiry” in Sri Lanka because she said it has made little progress toward ensuring accountability for alleged atrocities and war crimes committed during its civil war against minority Tamil rebels.