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<p>The United Kingdom co-sponsored the 2014 UN Human Rights Council resolution, which
established an investigation into allegations of serious violations and abuses of
human rights during the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. We welcomed
the publication of the report in September 2015. British officials were in regular
contact with the UN throughout this period. The report concluded that there were reasonable
grounds to believe that gross violations of international human rights law, serious
violations of international humanitarian law, and international crimes were committed
by all parties. Although different reports have given different figures for the total
number of deaths, the fact that many thousands died during the final stage of the
conflict is not in dispute.</p><p>It is for the Government of Sri Lanka to determine
the final casualty figures through a comprehensive independent truth seeking commission,
as they have undertaken to do. The commitments that Sri Lanka made to the UN Human
Rights Council in October 2015, and again in March 2017, are the best way to establish
the truth, and to achieve justice, restitution, and lasting reconciliation.</p>
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