The military did not intentionally target civilians at the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, a government-appointed commission has concluded.
But it found that ethnic Tamil rebels routinely violated international humanitarian law. The conclusions, from the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission report, contradict a UN report on the conflict.
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