The Sri Lankan president's advisor on reconciliation, Rajiva Wijesinha, called for a "ministry of reconciliation" to be created and "be charged with fulfilling the recommendations of the commission". 

Meticulously addressing any false hope raised by the government's latest fallacy, Wijesinha stipulated that it would work "as best as possible", and would "be given a limited lifespan, of two years perhaps, after which it should be made redundant."

"This is a question of words versus deeds and it has to be backed up by action.

“The British Government is, on the whole, disappointed by the report’s findings and recommendations on accountability. Like many others, we feel that these leave many gaps and unanswered questions.

We welcome the acknowledgement that “considerable civilian casualties” occurred during the final stages of the conflict and the recommendation that specific incidents require further investigation. But we note that many credible allegations of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, including from the UN Panel of Experts report, are either not addressed or only partially answered."

“We believe that video footage, authenticated by UN Special Rapporteurs, should inform substantive, not just technical, investigations into apparent grave abuses."

“continue(d) to believe it is important that an independent, credible and thorough mechanism is put in place to investigate all allegations of grave abuses.”

Four US government officials will be visiting Sri Lanka over the next two weeks, the US embassy confirmed on Thursday.

Highlighting the Sri Lankan government's "lack of both accountability and meaningful attempts at reconciliation", Canada's foreign affairs minister, John Baird, urged Sri Lanka to take "decisive action" following the release of the LLRC report and "demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law."

In a statement published Wednesday, Baird expressed concern that, "the report does not fully address the grave accusations of serious human rights violations" and noted that "many of the allegations outlined by the UN Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka have not been adequately addressed".

"We continue to call for an independent investigation into the credible and serious allegations raised by the UN Secretary-General’s Panel that international humanitarian law and human rights were violated by both sides in the conflict," Baird urged.

Baird had raised concerns regarding accountability for war crimes, with his Sri Lankan counterpart, GL Peiris, September last year, and criticised the UN's inaction on the issue.

Wednesday's statement adds to the on-going calls from a number of Canadian MPs  and prime minister, for a credible, independent investigation into the allegations.

Warning that there continued to be a "threat", Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary, speaking at a lecture on ‘Future Challenges of National Security in Sri Lanka’ on Tuesday, said,

“LTTE front organisations can encourage and facilitate ex LTTE cadres and those who escaped from the military during the war and pave way for a re-emergence.

Those who did not surrender are probably following the ideology of the LTTE. Even though 11,000 of them were rehabilitated there must be cadres who are not 100 per cent rehabilitated."

“We cannot forget everything just because we defeated them militarily. Still the threat is there. There are lots of enemies in the international front taking active steps to derail the path the government is taking to achieve economic development.”

Despite renewed calls for Sri Lanka to curtail its ever increasing militarisation of the North-East, the Defence Secretary justified the military's sweeping reach, saying,

“That is why we still maintain a strong military and that is why a considerable portion of the budget is given to the military. Still it is only two and a half years after defeating the LTTE militarily."

“To establish a camp anywhere in Sri Lanka is a decision and concern of the country as it is a sovereign state."

“In 2011, Sri Lanka ranked fourth worst in the world in terms of allowing murders of journalists to go unpunished, according to our global Impunity Index. As we noted in our report, "President Mahinda Rajapaksa has presided over a dark era of targeted media killings and complete law-enforcement failure in addressing the crimes. All nine journalist murders in the past decade have gone unsolved, leaving persistent questions as to whether authorities have been complicit in some of the crimes."