Defence Secretary,Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, challenged the United Nations to provide evidence used in the reports that found that at least 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed during the final stages of the war.
Speaking to the Sunday Island Rajapaksa outlined that the government intended to raise these issues with United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay on her scheduled to visit Sri Lanka later this month.
Rajapaksa went to argue that the confidentiality of evidence sources in the United Nation’s panel of experts report meant that the credibility of evidence could not be assured.
Rajapaksa also assured that a comprehensive survey conducted by the government in the North-East placed the number of dead at the end of the war as 7,400.
Gotobhayas latest refusal of the initial UN statistic of 4000 Tamil deaths come after several sources later found that a possible70,000 Tamil civilians could have died at the end of the 2009 war.
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