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Sunday, 6 January 2013

postheadericon Sri Lanka Def Sec Gotabhaya Explodes Again at BBC Interview Feb 2, 2010

Sri Lanka Def Sec Gotabhaya Explodes Again at BBC Interview Feb 2, 2010 Tube. Duration : 2.57 Mins.


Sri Lanka Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse speaking in furious emotions to BBC interviewer dismissed international call for war crimes investigations into the final stage of war against LTTE in May 2009. He denied any war crime charges and accusations from anywhere in the world, regardless whether they origin from United Nations or any other country. He will never allow any (war crimes) investigations in Sri Lankan neither will he allow security officer to send to war investigation because there is no reason to have investigations. The needs of the moment are not investigations but development, bring peace to the country and national reconciliation. It is also not the public's interest to have investigations on war against terrorism. Defence secretary When BBC asked whether LTTE is finished, he answered "yes". BBC asked any chance of regrouping of LTTE? He said any group can regroup he will not allow. Mean while Tamil Net reports: Referring to Gotabhaya Rajapakse's interview to the BBC Tuesday where Mr Rajapakse said that he would not allow any war crimes investigation in Sri Lanka, Professor Francis Boyle, an expert in International Law and a professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law said, "Defense Secretary Rajapaksa has now publicly and definitively ruled out any investigation of war crimes by the Government of Sri Lanka. And he is a government official acting within the scope of his official duties so that his statement binds the State of Sri ...

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