Tuesday, June 16, 2009

US Ambassador nominee for Sri Lanka urges "unfettered" access to the camps

Sri Lanka needs to reach out to its Tamil minority and improve conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced, the nominee to be the next US ambassador in Colombo said today, according to a report by AFP.

Patricia Butenis, testifying in a Senate confirmation hearing, said she would also press Sri Lanka to bring to justice those responsible for extrajudicial killings and attacks on the media.

Butenis said she would press Sri Lanka to allow "unfettered" access by humanitarian workers to the camps.

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