Report: Sri Lankan war was grave failure for UN

Published November 14, 2012 10:11pm ET



UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A United Nations report released Wednesday said inadequate efforts by the world body to protect civilians during the bloody final months of Sri Lanka’s civil war marked a “grave failure” that led to suffering for hundreds of thousands of people.

The report was unusually scathing for an official U.N. critique.

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