on 12 april 2011 the panel handed over its report to the secretary-general who passed on a copy to the sri lankan government. the sri lankan government immediately rejected the report as "fundamentally flawed" and "patently biased". the report wasn't initially made public but the un said it would be made public in due course. human rights called on the un to make the report public. on 16 april 2011 the report was published in "the island", an independently owned nationalist sri lankan newspaper. it had been suggested that the sri lankan government leaked the report so that it could issue a full rebuttal before of the report is officially made public by the un. the sri lankan government did not make a formal reply and on 25 april 2011 the un published the full report.