COLOMBO, Sept. 2 (Xinhua)-- Hundreds of relatives of those missing during and after Sri Lanka's civil conflict on Friday urged UN Chief Ban Ki Moon to launch an international probe to find their whereabouts.
The UN secretary-general, who is on the final leg of his two-day official visit to the island nation, visited former war-torn Jaffna on Friday afternoon where he visited a resettlement site and met with displaced people.
Just before his arrival, hundreds of people had lined outside the Jaffna Library, holding placards and pictures of those missing, even seven years after the end of the war.
Sri Lanka faced a 30-year civil conflict between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels which ended in May 2009 with the defeat of Tigers.
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