The Sri Lankan government should further investigate the disturbing footage apparently showing summary executions of men and women during the final days of the country's civil war in 2009, an independent UN human rights expert has said.
"Our findings are that these executions really took place and that has to be investigated further to establish who did it and what was the context," Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, said.
"I do think a broader process is necessary to establish whether these are crimes against humanity [or] possibly war crimes that took place," Heyns was quoted as saying in a UN release.
A five-minute video, authenticated by a UN expert panel showed bound and blindfolded men being shot by uniformed soldiers. PTI
