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Saturday, September 29, 2018
Sirisena’s Foolish Bravado Implicates Him In War Crimes Controversy
President Maithripala Sirisena’s
cavalier statement that the top-brass of the previous government fled
the country during the last days of war has unexpectedly implicated him
in the war crimes issue.
Sirisena,
while speaking to the Sri Lankan community on Thursday, said he gave
orders to military forces during the last two weeks of war as former
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickremanayake, former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka left the country due to ‘explosion fears’.
He said all of them left the country during the last two weeks as they
sensed a plan by the LTTE to launch terrorist attacks on Colombo using
light aircrafts operated from South India.
Sirisena pompously said it was him, as the acting Minister Defence back
then, of who knew everything about what happened during the last days of
war.
This statement has now implicated Sirisena in the war crimes controversy
as serious questions still remain unanswered on atrocities committed by
the armed forces during the last days of war during which scores of
Tamil militants were killed.
Sri Lankan government, despite repeated assurances to the international
community, has still failed to carry out a credible investigation into
the allegations of war crimes and International humanitarian law
violations.
Sirisena’s foolish bravado, has plunged himself to the centre of a
controversy that that contributed to increased international pressure on
the Sri Lankan government.
“As Sirisena has now implicated himself in the matter, he should be
questioned on the atrocities committed against civilians and prisoners
of war. His name should be added to the long list of possible
perpetrators including Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sarath
Fonseka and other brigade commanders who led the Army when they
committed such atrocities ” a prominent human rights activist told
Colombo Telegraph, commenting on the development.
