Mass Grave In Mannar Lanka Admits Killings
In an indirect admission, Sri Lankan Government ,through its Plantation Minister Samarasinghe, of Genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and vowed to
protect the Troops and the Nation from UNHRC.
“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.

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