Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweeta on Thursday (07)  said that a domestic mechanism will be in place by September to probe into the alleged human rights violations during the final stages of decades-long war with the LTTE. 

Addressing a press briefing Samaraweera further said that the domestic mechanism with foreign technical expertise to probe into the allegations of war crimes will be in place when next UN Human Rights Council session will meet in Geneva in September. 

"All I can say is that we will have a domestic mechanism in place in time when the 30th session of UNHRC commences in September," Samaraweera told.

Government promised the people a domestic mechanism to look into human rights violations, he asserted. However there is a timeline for its setting up, he stated and added that the government had a timeline. “We are working according to a timetable even now. I think we will be able to meet the timeline" he said

The announcement comes days after US Secretary of State John Kerry during a visit to the island told that "true reconciliation" with Tamils will take time, even as he praised the "openness" of the new government in efforts to boost democracy, human rights and reaching out to the minority community. 

(With inputs from The Economic Times)