Responding to calls for the LLRC report to be made public, Sri Lankan government spokesperson, Keheliya Rambukwella criticised such calls as an "indecent hurry" and asserted that the report would be presented in parliament at the "appropriate time".
"We do not agree with the view that there should be an indecent hurry to make it public", said Rambukwella.
"The 9/11 commission in the US took five years to release its report", he added.
The LLRC report was handed to Mahinda Rajapaksa on 21st November. Since the UK government and US senators, along side several international aid agencies, have called for the findings to be made public.
Leaked extracts were recently published by lankanewsweb.com. According to the website, which is banned in Sri Lanka, the government is preparing to sacrifice nearly one hundred soldiers, including senior military leaders, in order to save Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse and President Mahinda Rajapakse.
The soldiers will be held responsible for the atrocities committed during the war in 2009, in the hope that the Rajapakse brothers will be let off the hook.
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