Security and justice units of the US government to question the Defence Secretary

2011-04-28

The US Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are to question Defence Secretary Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa who is currently visiting the US, diplomatic sources told Lanka News Web. Sources said he would be questioned on the allegations leveled against him by the panel of experts appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on war crimes supposed to have been committed in the country. Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who is a US citizen, has visited the US this time on his American passport. Sources also said that human rights organizations in the US are planning on instituting legal action against US citizen Gotabhaya Rajapaksa for allegedly committing war crimes in Sri Lanka. Soon after our website published the story that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was visiting the US, he got a story planted in the website of the Derana network owned by one of his friends, Dilith Jayaweera that the Defence Secretary was visiting Uzbekistan. However, it is learnt that the Defence Secretary has traveled to the US to visit his relatives in the country. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s son’s wedding is to take place in Colombo in June. It is learnt that the Defence Secretary has already made the necessary arrangements to hold the wedding on a grand scale with the patronage of the armed forces.