“We have a big challenge in March. We are ready to face any challenge,” said Mahinda Samarasinghe, plantation minister and the country’s human rights envoy.
Addressing a gathering in central Kandy town, he said while facing the challenge in the UNHRC, Sri Lanka would not let its troops down.
“We will neither betray the nation nor our gallant troops.” Samarasinghe said military had never committed any wrong while combating the rebel LTTE.
“We all know what the LTTE did. They took as human shields 300,000 civilians. They fired at troops from among the civilians.”
The minister said, “It was true that the civilians were caught in the crossfire. The army was trying to crush terrorism. But the figure given as 40,000 killed was a lie”.
He said it was not possible to take a count of the casualties during the final battle. “This false figure of 40,000 was given by a UN employee to help him sell a book”.
In Mannar a Mass Grave was unearthed , there is evidence of people having been shot point-blank and the toll as of now is estimated at 40.
Whether it is JVP or LTTE or civilians Sri Lanka seems to be following a policy of Genocide, as a solution.
Construction workers in the coastal district of Mannar stumbled on at least 10 skeletal remains buried at a location where they were laying a new water pipe, said police spokesman Ajith Rohana.
“A judicial medical officer has gone to the site. Further forensic examinations are underway to determine the age of the mass grave,” Mr Rohana said. “Additional staff are being inducted for the investigation.”
There was no immediate indication who the victims were or how and when they had died.
However, it is the first time that evidence of a mass grave has emerged in the former war zone since troops declared victory over separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas in May 2009.
Both government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels have been accused of killing civilians during the 37-year separatist war.
Sri Lanka has denied allegations that its troops killed up to 40,000 civilians in the final months of fighting.
Earlier this year construction workers stumbled on another mass grave in central Sri Lanka, hundreds of kilometres away from the conflict zone.
At least 154 people had been buried in the grave at the central district of Matale, a hotbed of an anti-government uprising between 1987 and 1990.
Local forensic experts said it dated back to a period when the then-government led a crackdown on leftist Sinhalese rebels.
What more evidence is needed to indict Sri Lanka?
Despite its high decibel level UK can not raise the issue further for SAS had trained the Sri Lanka troops.
The same logic applies to India, which, in addition to training the troops ,provided critical intelligence during the last putsch against the Tamils.
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