A high-level delegation from the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has been denied entry to Sri Lanka, reported the DailyMirror.

The delegation, including the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Gabriela Knaul, and the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Param Cumaraswamy.

A boycott of the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Sri Lanka could help pressure Colombo to address alleged war crimes against Tamils, suggested Archbishop Desmond Tutu today.

Speaking to journalists in New Delhi, Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said:

British Prime Minister David Cameron met with a delegation from various British Tamil organisations today, including the British Tamils Forum, Global Tamil Forum and Tamils against Genocide.

A spokesperson for Number 10 has said that the Prime Minister David Cameron will call for an international inquiry, if Sri Lanka does not deliver an independent investigation into accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

"We have consistently called for an independent inquiry into the allegations,” the spokesperson said.

“To date, that has not happened. And the PM believes that in the absence of an independent investigation, an international inquiry would be needed.”

"This Thursday, one of the key officials implicated in the White Flag incident will be speaking at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Sri Lankan Ambassador Palitha Kohona is Sri Lanka’s permanent representative to the United Nations in N.Y., and is the subject of an investigation by the Australian Federal Police. There have also been requests from NGOs to the International Criminal Court that Kohona’s involvement in these extrajudicial killings be investigated."

"Kohona is the official representative of an authoritarian and oppressive regime. Yale is disturbingly granting him a platform to whitewash Sri Lanka’s genocide against Tamils on the island and normalize Sri Lanka’s role within the international community."

The government will prevent any planned protests around the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka next week, according to The Island.

When asked whether police would be deployed to break up protests in Colombo or Jaffna, a senior government official told the paper that protestors wouldn’t be allowed to interfere with the schedule of the summit.