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Commonwealth leaders set to hand top job to rights abuse Sri Lankan president

David Cameron and other Commonwealth leaders were condemned yesterday for ignoring Sri Lanka's appalling human rights record and preparing to jet into the capital Colombo.

Unless they take action Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will be appointed chairman-in-office - representing the 53-nation Commonwealth until 2015.

His government is implicated in serious human rights abuse both during and since the end of Sri Lanka's brutal civil war.

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