What if you discovered evidence of genocide, and nobody cared?

Every so often, I get an email from the Sri Lanka Brief.  Usually, it's depressing, and today it's no different.  The bottom line: Although a United Nations panel of experts found clear evidence of war crimes committed during the recently concluded civil war, officially nobody seems to care.

India has maintained a studied silence. China has backed the Sri Lankan government, and Russia has gone so far as to say that the panel's findings aren't really a UN report.

And while the European parliament representing 27 countries passed a resolution requesting the government of Sri Lankan government to implement the UN panel's recommendations, it rejected a proposed amendment "to seek the immediate establishment of an international justice mechanism" in the final joint resolution. This resolution calls for re-establishing rule of law and independence of judiciary while granting emphasising the importance granting of equal rights for Tamil people.

Except for  international human rights organizations, Sri Lanka Brief says,  no government has supported the panel recommendation for establishing a international mechanism immediately in order to investigate the allegations of crimes against humanity.  Instead, there seems to be a unwritten consensus among the international actors that Government of Sri Lanka should be given a time to come up with independent, transparent accountability mechanism in accordance with international standards before any discussion on international investigation.

But the Sri Lankan government has not shown any signs of doing that on tis own.