Astonishingly powerful, rare category of War Crime evidence, says Legal expert

TamilNet, Thursday, 09 December 2010, 02:42 GMT]

"On the question of whether there should be an inquiry, this is astonishingly powerful evidence of a type I've only seen in a handful of times – there's some footage from Yugoslavia about mass killings – and this is up there. It's within a very, very rare category of evidence where killings are actually captured on tape and the idea that there can be a debate about whether there should be an investigation in the face of evidence like this is very surprising. So this evidence should lead to only one conclusion which plainly is there needs to be a full investigation and there needs to be prosecution of the people responsible," a leading war crimes lawyer Julian Knowles of Matrix Chambers told Channel-4 after watching the video obtained by Channel-4 on the extra-judicial execution of Tamils by Sri Lanka soldiers.

Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne, Commanding Officer 53rd Division

SLA command complicit in Vanni massacre (Courtesy: Sunday Observer)

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