Action Against Hunger, a Paris charity, has asked international authorities to investigate the August 2006 murders of 17 employees in Muttur, Sri Lanka, after strongly criticizing the local investigation, reports Agence France-Presse.

Seventeen aid workers employed by Action Against Hunger were found executed at a time when the government was battling Tamil rebels, who want to create their own homeland in the country. A Sri Lankan human-rights group said that members of the security forces and police were allegedly responsible for the murders.