Sri Lanka - U.N. Official Calls for War Crimes Inquiry - NYTimes.com In a review of human rights in Sri Lanka, the United Nations top human rights official on Wednesday called for an international investigation of war crimes accusations if the government does not start a credible national process "with tangible results" in the next six months. The official, Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, said she "detected no new or comprehensive effort to independently or credibly investigate the allegations" that tens of thousands of civilians were killed by the military during the closing months of the war. The government also offered "no satisfactory responses to concerns over high levels of harassment of journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders," Ms. Pillay said, citing widespread fears over "the degree to which the rule of law and democratic institutions in Sri Lanka are being undermined and eroded." Sri Lanka's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Ravinatha Aryasinha, rejected Ms. Pillay's views as "not the result of an objective assessment."