UN Concern Over Sri Lanka Rights

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, louise Arbour, has criticized Sri Lanka's rights record, questioning the government's readiness to improve it.She was speaking at the end of a visit to the country which is once again in the throes of civil war. The government rejected her call for UN human rights monitors to be deployed. According to New York based Human Rights Watch, there have been over 1,000 recent abductions. The government says man reported cases are false.