UN under fire for selling-out to Sri Lanka...

The United Nations has been accused of failing in its duties to speak out against abuses in Sri Lanka and release credible information in its possession.

The UN European headquarters in Geneva on Friday denied there had been a cover-up.

Le Monde newspaper accused the UN of covering up the "severity of the massacres" in Sri Lanka for fear of compromising its humanitarian operations and of being expelled from the island.

The French newspaper cited UN figures putting the death toll in the Sri Lanka government's final onslaught against Tamil Tiger rebels at 7,720, including 678 children, between January 20 and May 13, while 18,465 people were injured, 2,384 of them children. More...

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1. Sri Lanka's hidden massacre...
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