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.
He went on to add he was against the holding of the Northern Provincial Council elections with the Daily Mirror also quoting Weerawansa as saying,
“These proposals are just fuel for the upcoming resolutions against the country in United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva in March.”
The Minister, who also leads the National Freedom Front, went on to target one Tamil councillor in particular, adding,
“Provincial Councilor Ananthi Sasidharan has called for an international inquiry into the Mannar mass grave site, alleging that the census carried out by the Census and Statistics Department into the casualties during the war was wrong.”
His comments follow reports from the Island that the Ministry of Defence is looking to “rehabilitate” the prominent and popular member of the NPC.
See more in our earlier post:
Ananthi Sasitharan may be rehabilitated to prevent separatist tendencies – The Island (14 January 2014)