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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Sri Lanka opened its own investigation Wednesday into the civil war against the Tamil Tigers after resisting a U.N. war crimes investigation.
Officials said in a statement that a committee of eight people appointed by the government will spend five days listening to witnesses, Radio France Internationale reported.
The United Nations wanted to investigate allegations of human rights violations during the last campaign against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The government probe is expected to examine the end of a truce in 2002 that led to seven more years of fighting, RFI said.
The Tamil Tigers waged a civil war for three decades with the goal of creating an independent state in part of Sri Lanka. They were finally defeated in 2009 when government forces managed to confine the group to a small area that was then overrun.
U.N. investigators have said at least 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final campaign and others driven from their homes. The government denies any civilian killings.
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