The UN High Commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, is to encourage the Government to cooperate with the investigation to be launched through her office on the war in Sri Lanka.

Pillay will make references to the investigations when she makes her opening speech at the 26th session of the UN Human Rights Council which begins meeting in Geneva on Tuesday.

“I note also that last month marked the fifth anniversary of the end of the war in Sri Lanka, where the scars created by terrorism and conflict have yet to heal. My Office has now put in place a staff team that will be supported by several experts and Special Procedures mandate holders, to conduct the comprehensive investigation mandated by this Council in order to advance accountability, and thus reconciliation. I encourage the Government to take this opportunity to cooperate with a credible truth-seeking process,” Pillay says in a prepared speech which she will deliver on Tuesday.

The Government has already said it will not support the investigation nor will it extend any form of assistance to the commission tasked with the probe.