Sri Lankan city shut ahead of war crime resolution

Published March 20, 2014 5:15am ET



COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Supporters of Sri Lanka’s government brought a city in the country’s former civil war zone to a standstill on Thursday to protest a U.S.-sponsored resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council on alleged war crimes.

Shops, banks and government offices were closed and public transportation was halted in Trincomalee, a city of about 100,000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.

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