<p>Sri Lanka's Health Minister, Rajitha Senaratne, said the government had no evidence of Sri Lankan troops killing Tamil civilians during the war.</p>
<p>Senaratne claimed that people were killed in the crossfire but there is no evidence to show that civilians were directly targeted.</p>
<p>Senaratne said the government rejected the "Darusman Report" on Sri Lanka which accused the Sri Lankan military of intentionally killing Tamil civilians. The "Darusman Report" was produced in 2011 by a panel of experts appointed by former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and headed by Marzuki Darusman.</p>
<p>The Panel found credible allegations associated with the final stages of the war:</p>
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'Between September 2008 and 19 May 2009, the Sri Lanka Army advanced its military campaign into the Vanni using large-scale and widespread shelling, causing large numbers of civilian deaths. This campaign constituted persecution of the population of the Vanni.'
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<p>The Sri Lankan government rejected this report, calling it fundamentally flawed.</p>
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