The Sri Lankan prime minister on Tuesday condemnded the assault on the High Commissioner in Malaysia, Ibrahim Ansar, stating the Malaysian government was "bound to give protection".
"We condemn the assault on the High Commissioner. Soon after the incident, I instructed the Acting Foreign Affairs Minister to summon the Malaysian Envoy and register our protest. The Malaysian Government is bound to give protection,” Mr Wickremesinghe told parliament, the Daily Mirror reported.
Stating that the protesters were "not Sri Lankan by any means", Mr Wickremesinghe reportedly added, "those persons were members linked to a South India based political party called Naam Thamilar."
"This party, lobbied internationally to refer Sri Lanka to an international war crimes tribunal."
"A war crimes tribunal is not our intention. We have to brief them. We will send a team to South India as well," he said, adding that a delegation would be sent to Malaysia to engage with them.
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