Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse speaks during the general debate of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse assailed the United Nations Human Rights Council in his address to the UN General Assembly, calling its probe into Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war disproportionate and politically motivated. Sri Lanka has refused to co-operate with the Human Rights Council’s investigation into the deaths of some 100,000 people since it was announced in March, despite mounting international pressure to issue visas to UN investigators. “Post-conflict Sri Lanka has also become an unfortunate victim of ill-conceived agendas of some in the Human Rights Council,” Rajapakse said
