Sri Lanka nationalists protest against UN chief visit
Dozens of Sri Lankan nationalists on Thursday protested against a three-day visit by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, demanding he leave the island and stop an investigation into alleged abuses at the end of the civil war.
Ban is in Colombo to assess Sri Lanka's efforts to address post war reconciliation.
Sri Lanka, under the ousted leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, crushed the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. The United Nations accuses the military of killing thousands of civilians, mostly Tamils, during the final weeks of the 26-year-war.
