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Sri Lanka wants more time and space

The Sri Lankan government is demanding more time and space for its reconciliation process and said it is against the “internationalising” of the issue.

Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN Palitha Kohona is reported by Xinhua to have said that “tremendous progress” had already been made.

"Sri Lanka will continue to take all necessary measures to heal the wounds of conflict on its own, as the internationalization of the reconciliation process, would only result in stymying the progress, particularly since it is a domestically developed process," he said.

Kohona claimed that the government has already taken firm action against perpetrators of sexual violence from 2007 till 2012.

In those 5 years, a total of 17 security forces personnel “had been involved” in incidents of sexual violence in the north, said Kohona.

Thousands of women have been raped and sexually assaulted by the military during the armed conflict and in subsequent years, including in government-run internment camps after the war's end.

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