The Sri Lankan government has slammed the recently released United Nations internal report as “unsubstantiated, erroneous and replete with conjecture and bias” earlier this week.
In a statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs, the government went on to question “the bona fides of the authorship of the document and its underlying motivation”. They also stated,
“this Report seems to seek to endorse the baseless and discredited allegations in the Darusman Report [UN Panel of Experts report], of an exaggerated civilian casualty figure during the last stages of the terrorist conflict”
Commenting on the report’s description on military run internment camps where the civilian population were herded into after May 2009, the statement said that there was “ignorance on the part of the author of the Report” and labelled it “another attempt at castigating Sri Lanka”.
See the full statement from the Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka here.
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