3 May 2011 - ECCHR has to­day pub­lished a new dossi­er which sub­s­tan­ti­ates al­le­ga­tions of war crimes com­mitt­ed by the 57 Di­vi­sion of the Sri Lankan Army un­der the com­mand of Ja­gath Dias. Ja­gath Dias was Ma­jor Gen­er­al of the Sri Lankan Army dur­ing the fi­nal of­fen­sive against the re­bel group Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in 2009. Ac­cord­ing to a re­cent re­port by the Unit­ed Na­tions, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 40.000 civilians died ac­cord­ing dur­ing this phase of the con­flict. Since Septem­ber 2009, Dias has been an ac­credit­ed di­plo­mat in the Sri Lankan em­bassy in Ber­lin for Ger­many, Switz­er­land and Vat­i­can.