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A UN-appointed expert, just back from a 13-day mission to Somalia, is urging the new government to investigate and prosecute crimes committed during the country's 13-year-old civil war. The United Nations' independent expert on Somalia, Ghanim Alnajjar, told reporters in Nairobi Monday reconciliation will never happen in Somalia unless past crimes are dealt with and human rights in general are respected.