Sri Lanka will conduct an investigation into allegations its troops committed war crimes during a conflict with Tamil separatists, it said Friday, a month before the UN Human Rights Council is due to discuss the island's rights record.

Sri Lanka to conduct investigation into war crime allegations

Sri Lanka's president on Thursday pardoned and released an army officer sentenced to death for slitting the throats of Tamil civilians, including four children, during the island's bloody ethnic war.

Sri Lanka pardons soldier who slaughtered Tamil civilians

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Sri Lanka to conduct investigation into war crime allegations

Sri Lanka pardons soldier who slaughtered Tamil civilians