Days after the UN chief Ban Ki-Moon condemned the Sri Lankan government’s decision to expel Unicef’s communications officer from the country, new information has been reported in the Guardian that another UN official was expelled from the country.
Peter Mackay, an Australian citizen, worked as a field operative for Unops, the technical arm of the UN. He was tracking the number of civilians killed in the final months of the war. In July he received two weeks notice by government authorities to leave the country for “adverse activities had come to the notice of the intelligence services”. Mackay is the second UN worker to be expelled from the country over the past few weeks.
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