The Sri Lankan government should begin by investigating Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan or Karuna, asserted Human Rights Watch on Thursday.
Statement:
'The Sri Lankan government should act on the call by a government deputy minister to investigate war crimes by examining his own role in serious abuses.
In early March 2013, Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, known as Col. Karuna, called for war crimes investigations into the Tamil National Alliance, an opposition coalition of ethnic Tamil political parties, presumably because some members had links to the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Karuna was effectively the second-in-command of the LTTE and the head of its Eastern Province forces until he broke away from the group’s leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran, in March 2004.'
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