Source: Asia Times:
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO – That it would be a visit fraught with diplomatic tension was undoubted. Navanetham ”Navi” Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was into the third day of her week-long visit from August 25 to August 31 to Sri Lanka when her entourage broke into animated discussion.
They were in the heart of Mullaittivu district in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province (NP), where some of the bloodiest battles in the last chapter of the war between Sri Lanka and separatist rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were fought in the summer of 2009, ending a conflict that had lasted almost 30 years.
The most import thing was that this long-standing war finally came to an end.