Indian Tamil activists and supporters lie on a road and shout slogans during a protest against Sri Lanka's alleged wartime abuses in Chennai, India, on March 21, 2013. A key ethnic Tamil party withdrew from India's coalition government Tuesday, accusing the government of watering down a U.N. resolution criticizing Sri Lanka's war-time conduct against its minority Tamil population. The party has demanded the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution accuse Sri Lanka of genocide and that it leads to the formation of an international inquiry into possible war crimes. (Associated Press)
Indian Tamil activists and supporters lie on a road and shout slogans during a protest against Sri Lanka's alleged wartime abuses in Chennai, India, on March 21, 2013. A key ethnic Tamil party withdrew from India's coalition government Tuesday, accusing the government of watering down a U.N. resolution criticizing Sri Lanka's war-time conduct against its minority Tamil population. The party has demanded the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution accuse Sri Lanka of genocide and that it leads to the formation of an international inquiry into possible war crimes. (Associated Press)
associated press An Indian Tamil activist shouts slogans Wednesday in Mumbai during a protest against Sri Lanka’s alleged wartime abuses. A key ethnic Tamil party withdrew from India’s coalition government Tuesday, and it has demanded that the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution accuse Sri Lanka of genocide against the minority Tamil population.
Government supporters hold a national flag during a rally against an American-backed proposed U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged human rights abuses during the country's civil war, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
Unidentified delegates speak together before the opening of the U.N. Human Rights Council's special session on Syria taking place at the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)
U.N. Human Rights Council members follow a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. The 27-nation bloc agreed an arms embargo, asset freeze and visa ban against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
