Ananthy Sasitharan said that she would fight against any attempt by the government to arrest her, responding to a report in The Island yesterday that an official within Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence said that she should be arrested and 'rehabilitated' in order to curtail her 'separatist tendencies', reports Tamilwin and the Hindu.
Highlighting the international repurcussions of such an attempt to arrest her, Ms. Sasitharan said,
"I was not a member of the LTTE. However, my husband, and those who went missing during the conflict, deserve justice."
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