Sri Lanka protesters lay siege to UN compound (AP)

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Sri Lankan protesters wave their national flags and burn an effigy of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon outside the U.N. office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Protesters at the U.N. building in the Sri Lankan capital forced U.N. workers to stay in their office Tuesday to demand the world body end its investigation of rights abuses alleged during the country's civil war. Ban ki-Moon last month appointed a three-member panel to advise him on allegations of human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)AP – Hundreds of protesters, led by a government minister, laid siege to the U.N. compound in Colombo on Tuesday, refusing to let workers out in an effort to force the world body to cancel its investigation of alleged abuses committed during Sri Lanka’s civil war.


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