COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s parliament rejected on Wednesday an investigation by the United Nations human rights body into alleged crimes during the island nation’s civil war that ended five years ago.

Ruling coalition lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Wednesday for a motion that says such a probe “should not be carried out on the ground that such a course of action is detrimental to the process of reconciliation and peace and that it erodes the sovereignty, dignity and stature of Sri Lanka.”