According to the Sri Lankan foreign ministry officials, the ministry would officially write to the OHCHR on its unilateral action to issue a report, particularly its timing. Sri Lanka was irked by the timing—a day ahead of plans by the Tamil diaspora and kith and kin in the country of those who died during the final battle of the government’s war with the LTTE in May 2009 to commemorate the dead.

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