Sri Lankan government Minister Wimal Weerawansa has condemned resolutions passed earlier this week, stating that they were against Sri Lanka’s ‘national interests’.

Speaking on the recently passed resolutions, which included a call for an international investigation, a monument built to the victims massacred in Mullivaikkal and recognising that a genocide has taken place, Weerawansa stated they were part of a program to bring Sri Lanka before an international tribunal.

8 years have passed since 7 TRO workers were abducted by Sri Lankan government-backed paramilitaries in Batticaloa. The kidnappings, which took place on the 29th and 30th of January, has not led to a single arrest.

The missing aid workers are presumed dead.

“It was staggering to read that Beattie and her colleagues had ignored a log of war crimes piled high at the United Nations and described Rajapaksa as ’man of courage'.”

The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) has passed a resolution calling for a monument to be built to commemorate those killed in Mullivaikkaal earlier this week. 

The resolution, which was passed unanimously, was proposed by the councillor for Mullaitivu, T Raviharan. Noting that thousands had died, he told Ceylon Today,

"A monument has not been built to pay respect to the civilians in the Mullaitivu District. Therefore, I decided to bring in a resolution to build a monument remembering all the civilians, who died during the final stages of the war.”

The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) passed several resolutions on Monday stating that an international investigation was need to investigate the Sri Lankan state's actions against the Tamils which amounted to genocide.