BBC News
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.
Nick Kelly为你播报BBC新闻。
An Internal United Nations report seen by the BBC says the UN was responsible for a grave failure to protect civilians in the final stage of Sri Lanka's civil war three and a half years ago. The draft report says senior UN staff in Colombo did not see it as their responsibility to prevent the killing of civilians. But John Holmes who was the UN and secretary general for humanitarian affairs at the time, says the accusation is untrue.
BBC在联合国网上看到一篇报告,报告称联合国对三年半前斯里兰卡内战最后阶段未能保护平民的事件负责。这篇草拟报告称联合国驻科伦坡官员不认为阻止平民被杀是自己的责任。但时任联合国人权事务秘书长的约翰·侯尔姆斯称指控不实。
'I think everybody was doing their very best to protect the civilians and particular the Tamils who were trapped with the LTTE. The reality obviously is that the government were absolutely determined to finish that war, at any cost including to civilians they made that very clear at the time. I'm not prepared to listen either to answer the United Nations or to any of the world powers and the truth is also the rapid report doesn't make this point. None of the world powers is really prepared to do anything to stop them.'