Final phase of Lankan war merits investigation: Gordon Weiss

G Pramod Kumar Jan 16, 2012

The political evolution of China and India and the movements in the UN Human Rights Council offer some scope for a possible international investigation into the alleged civilian deaths during the 2009 siege in Sri Lanka, says Gordon Weiss, author of The Cage, that vividly documented the final days of the defeat of LTTE and the suffering of Tamil civilians.

“I think the ground clearly exists for any basis of fairness, and equivalence with other similar international situations that there should be an international investigation.” However, it will be foolish for anybody to bet precisely on what’s going to happen in the next six months or a year or two years,” he said in an exclusive interview with Firstpost.

Weiss added that he stood by the accounts of civilian suffering and casualties that he described in the book, and said that the great story of the conquest of a terrorist organisation without bloodshed and the greatest refugee operation in history has been thrown out of the window. Full Story>>>