The UN sells its soul to Sri Lanka! (War victims everywhere take heed; no one cares about you...)

Sri Lanka last night scored a major propaganda coup when the UN human rights council praised its victory over the Tamil Tigers and refused calls to investigate allegations of war crimes by both sides in the final chapter of a bloody 25-year conflict.

In a shock move, which dismayed western nations critical of Sri Lanka's approach, the island's diplomats succeeded in lobbying enough of its south Asian allies to pass a resolution describing the conflict as a "domestic matter that doesn't warrant outside interference". More...

See also:

1. Amnesty accuses leaders of losing focus on human rights abuse...
2. The staggering cost of the Sri Lanka war. 
3. Tamil ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka?
4. 200,000 Tamil civilians imprisoned in Sri Lanka's Manik Farm "concentration" camp...
5. Sri Lanka authorities on revenge rampage in Tamil refugee camps; women being murdered, children abducted...