Click here to listen to comments to Radio Australia by James Ross, Legal and Policy Director at Human Rights Watch, on the UN expert panel's report on Sri Lanka’s war crimes.
In particular, Ross cautions against the narrow reading in the press of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s statement on needing a mandate to initiate a Commission of Inquiry into Sri Lanka’s crimes.
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