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Vol. 5 Num 1078 Wed. June 13, 2007  
   
International


Sri Lanka to study critical rights report


Sri Lanka's president has called for "careful study" of a critical report that said the island is failing to investigate grave human rights abuses, a spokesman said yesterday.

President Mahinda Rajapakse was speaking after an international panel said a commission appointed to investigate 16 high profile cases, involving murder and abduction, had failed to make headway since it began operating in November 2006.