The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today set a deadline for the government to address human rights concerns by March 2014 in the absence of which she believes the international community will have a duty to establish its own inquiry mechanisms.
In a statement on Sri Lanka, which was delivered to the UN Human Rights Council by the Deputy High Commissioner Flavia Pansieri, Pillay said that she has not detected any new or comprehensive effort to independently or credibly investigate the allegations which have been of concern to the Human Rights Council.