The government is making a careful study of the UN Rapporteur’s letter regarding the circumstances of the death of three senior LTTE cadres and their families at the last stages of military operations, states a media release by the Media Unit of the Presidential Secretariat.
The media release:
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Summary or Arbitrary Executions, has asked the government to provide explanations with regard to the circumstances of the death of three senior LTTE cadres and their families at the last stages of military operations to defeat the LTTE in May this year
The request for explanations follows the recent statement made by General (Retired) Sarath Fonseka, an opposition candidate in the forthcoming Presidential election, alleging that such killings had taken place, in an interview with The Sunday Leader of December 13, 2009.
The letter by the UN special Rapporteur, Phillip Alston, addressed to Mrs. Kshenuka senewiratne, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN Office in Geneva states:
“These allegations were made by the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army at the time of the events and subsequent Chief of Defence Staff (now retired General Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka, in an interview to the newspaper The Sunday Leader. The accounts of journalists embedded with the Sri Lanka Army 58thBrigade confirm some of the alleged circumstances of the death of Messers. Nadeshan, Pulidevan, Ramesh and their families”.
The government is making a careful study of the UN Rapporteur’s letter, prior to a formal response and any action that may be necessary.
The media release:
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Summary or Arbitrary Executions, has asked the government to provide explanations with regard to the circumstances of the death of three senior LTTE cadres and their families at the last stages of military operations to defeat the LTTE in May this year
The request for explanations follows the recent statement made by General (Retired) Sarath Fonseka, an opposition candidate in the forthcoming Presidential election, alleging that such killings had taken place, in an interview with The Sunday Leader of December 13, 2009.
The letter by the UN special Rapporteur, Phillip Alston, addressed to Mrs. Kshenuka senewiratne, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN Office in Geneva states:
“These allegations were made by the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army at the time of the events and subsequent Chief of Defence Staff (now retired General Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka, in an interview to the newspaper The Sunday Leader. The accounts of journalists embedded with the Sri Lanka Army 58thBrigade confirm some of the alleged circumstances of the death of Messers. Nadeshan, Pulidevan, Ramesh and their families”.
The government is making a careful study of the UN Rapporteur’s letter, prior to a formal response and any action that may be necessary.
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