Rights group: Sri Lanka committed war crimes

An international rights group said Monday there were "reasonable grounds" to believe Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes during the final months of the country's civil war and called for an international investigation. In a scathing report, the International Crisis Group said tens of thousands of civilians were killed in shelling and other violence in the last battles of the quarter-century conflict between government forces and the Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended last May. The Brussels-based organization said it had "credible evidence" that government security forces intentionally shelled civilians after herding them into so-called "no-fire zones" and deliberately targeted hospitals and centers were aid was being distributed.