Sri Lanka's army general at the time of the killing of tens of thousands of Tamils during the final stages of the armed conflict, said he rejected the majority of charges made in the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Investigation into Sri Lanka (OISL), which was published on Wednesday.
General Sarath Fonseka however urged the government to conduct an inquiry "in case soldiers had been ordered by another military official to kill civilians", the Daily Mirror reported.
He reportedly added that as far as he knew, "there had been no killing of civilians who had surrendered during the last phase of the war."
“We can’t accept all the charges as true. However, the charges should be probed in case soldiers had been ordered by another military official to kill civilians. I have no objection to probing the charges, as probing them would clear the name of Sri Lanka if the charges are baseless; if not, action should be taken against the officials responsible,” he was quoted by the paper as saying during a press briefing.
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