Sri Lanka’s Education Minister SB Dissanayake said that former US presidents should be “dragged on the road and killed” for committing atrocities in countries such as Iraq and Libya, reported the Colombo Gazette.
The minister, who was speaking at an event in Kandy, said that although Saddam Hussain had some shortcomings, he changed Iraq for the better, and former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s death had ruined the country.
“Saddam may have had some flaws but then American leaders had worse flaws. They should be beaten and hanged, be it junior Bush or senior Bush. For the atrocities they committed they must be beaten and dragged on the road and killed,” he said at the event.
The minister said that the same attempts are now being made in Sri Lanka, through the launch of the OHCHR investigation.
Dissanayake used to be a minister in the UNP-administration and continued to be an MP for the party when they became the opposition, until he crossed over to the Mahinda Rajapaksa-led SLFP in December 2009.