DHAKA: UK prime minister David Cameron put Sri Lanka on notice on Saturday to address allegations of war crimes within months or else he would lead a push for action at the UN.

Speaking at a troubled Commonwealth summit in Colombo, the British premier warned his hosts that pressure over alleged abuses at the end of Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict was not about to go away.

But a Sri Lankan minister said Colombo would ‘definitely’ not allow international investigators to conduct a probe on its soil.

Cameron, who made an historic visit to the former war zone on Friday, also told of how he had ‘frank’ exchanges with Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse on his return.

BDST: 1910 HRS, NOV 16, 2013
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