As UN role in Madaya siege comes under scrutiny,some members say actions echo its systemic failings in Sri Lanka’s civil warConcern is mounting within the UN that its response to the Syria crisis has exposed similar systemic failings to those it had vowed to eradicate after its widely condemned handling of the final stages of Sri Lanka’s civil war.nearly seven years after that conflict ended, and with the scale of human suffering in Syria eclipsing all other recent wars, and the UN is struggling to finish chronic starvation sieges across the country or deliver meaningful aid to areas most in need.
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Source: theguardian.com