Sri Lanka's attempts to humour western powers cause unease among its military

File image of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. AFP

By Sunil Raman-Nov 30, 2015 

In the third week of November, Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena summoned top army generals who were involved in the campaign against LTTE. The Army Chief was not invited. The discussion focussed on how the government should respond on the setting-up of a commission that will investigate human rights violations in the months leading to the end of a 25-year-old bloody civil war in 2009.

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