Suggestions that the UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet distanced herself from a report by her office on Sri Lanka are unfounded and should not get in the way of reform in the country, a senior UN human rights official said on Wednesday. 

In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, Mona Rishmawi, whose official title is Chief of Rule of Law Equality and Non Discrimination, at the UN Human Rights office, insisted that Sri Lanka should accelerate measures seeking justice for victims of serious human rights abuses linked to the bloody civil war that ended there in 2009.