Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said that there was advice available from the international community that was favourable to Sri Lanka’s army.
Quoting legal advice that had been initially solicited for the recently released Maxwell Paranagama report into the abductions an disappearances Rajapaksa said that Sir Desmond de Silva QC had cleared Sri Lankan armed forces for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the las phases of the war.
Speaking at a meeting of the Buddhist institute in Colombo, Rajapaksa said that any foreign assistance should be used to obtain “advisory opinions about the arguments that can be made in our favour from foreign experts” adding that “court cases against war heroes” should be to clear their names.
The former president added that Sri Lanka’s parliament had “the power to thwart” plans to “victimise war heroes.”
Quoting legal advice that had been initially solicited for the recently released Maxwell Paranagama report into the abductions an disappearances Rajapaksa said that Sir Desmond de Silva QC had cleared Sri Lankan armed forces for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the las phases of the war.
Speaking at a meeting of the Buddhist institute in Colombo, Rajapaksa said that any foreign assistance should be used to obtain “advisory opinions about the arguments that can be made in our favour from foreign experts” adding that “court cases against war heroes” should be to clear their names.
The former president added that Sri Lanka’s parliament had “the power to thwart” plans to “victimise war heroes.”