COLOMBO: Sri Lanka appears set to avoid an international inquiry into atrocities committed during its lengthy civil war if a new United Nations resolution is adopted next week.

Colombo has lobbied successfully for a watering-down of an earlier motion demanding foreign involvement in any probe into human rights abuses during the 37-year conflict.

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