Sri Lanka's Tamil leaders call for UN help on 4,000 missing

Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil leaders on Sunday asked the top human rights official of the United Nations to ‎help determine the fate of more than 4,000 civilians reported missing in the country's long civil war ‎amid the government's assertion that most of them are probably dead.  ‎UN High Commissioner for ‎Human Rights,  Zeid Raad al-Hussein, met the chief minister of Sri Lanka's Northern Province, the ‎arena of the civil war, which ended in 2009.   Zeid arrived in Sri Lanka on Saturday on a four-day visit ‎aimed at reviewing the measures taken by the island nation to investigate alleged atrocities committed ‎during the long civil war that left tens of thousands dead.   ‎ Both the Sri Lankan government and the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels are accused of serious human ‎rights violations. According to U.N. estimates, up to 100,000 people were killed in the 26-year war, but ‎many more are feared to have died, including up to 40,000 civilians in the final months of the fighting.‎ The U.N. Human Rights Council last