Sri Lanka’s hidden genocide

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/11/04/sri_lankas_hidden_genocide.html

By: Rosie DiManno Columnist, Published on Mon Nov 04 2013

VAVUNIYA, SRI LANKA—Sri Lanka is an island nation in the shape of a tear drop, poignantly.

And countless are the tears that were shed amid the spasms of a savage civil war — as countless, as uncounted, as the dead.

The United Nations, which has acknowledged its calamitous failures under the Responsibility to Protect — R2P, a doctrine that Canada was pivotal in establishing — is still trying to tally the numbers and apportion the blame, four years on: 40,000 to 70,000 civilians killed over five months of the final conflagration, the number the UN now accepts, though many argue the figure is far higher.