The National Freedom Front (NFF) slammed Sri Lanka’s co-operation with the United States and warned that those who fought against the LTTE would be brought before an international war crimes tribunal.
Colombo District MP and NFF spokesperson Wimal Weerawansa told The Island that Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should not “adopt a course of action that could be inimical to national security interests”.
He went on to state that allegations of war crimes should be dealt with “without any external input”.
Mr Weerawansa, who is a close ally of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, received the highest number of any UPFA candidate in Colombo’s 16 polling divisions in last month’s general election, with 313,801 preferential votes, second behind Ranil Wickremesinghe who won 500,566 preferential votes.
Addressing the media at the NFF party office at Battaramulla, he also stated that since the West had publically claimed Sri Lanka’s judiciary was free from political interference since the change in government earlier this year, he could not see any reason for external intervention.