UN asks Sri Lanka to repatriate commander in Mali

20/10/2018 12:28

        The United Nations asked the government of Sri Lanka on Friday to immediately repatriate the commander of its 200-strong contingent assigned to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Mali following a review of his human rights background.
        
        U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced that the request for Lt. Col. Kalana Amunupure to leave the troubled West African nation was made "based on recently received information."
        
        A report in The Guardian newspaper in July quoted a confidential report that claimed the Sri Lanka commander in Mali — who was not named — is alleged to have committed war crimes during the finale of Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war against Tamil Tiger rebels that ended in 2009.