Sri Lanka Def Sec Gotabhaya Explodes Again at BBC Interview Feb 2, 2010

Sri Lanka Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse speaking in furious emotions to BBC interviewer dismissed international call for war crimes investigations into the final stage of war against LTTE in May 2009. He denied any war crime charges and accusations from anywhere in the world, regardless whether they origin from United Nations or any other country. He will never allow any (war crimes) investigations in Sri Lankan neither will he allow security officer to send to war investigation because there is no reason to have investigations. The needs of the moment are not investigations but development, bring peace to the country and national reconciliation. It is also not the public's interest to have investigations on war against terrorism.

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When BBC asked whether LTTE is finished, he answered "yes". BBC asked any chance of regrouping of LTTE? He said any group can regroup he will not allow.

Mean while Tamil Net reports:

Referring to Gotabhaya Rajapakse's interview to the BBC Tuesday where Mr Rajapakse said that he would not allow any war crimes investigation in Sri Lanka, Professor Francis Boyle, an expert in International Law and a professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law said, "Defense Secretary Rajapaksa has now publicly and definitively ruled out any investigation of war crimes by the Government of Sri Lanka. And he is a government official acting within the scope of his official duties so that his statement binds the State of Sri Lanka under international law. Hence the basic requirement of international law mandating "complementarity" has been satisfied.

"In other words, a sovereign state must first be given the opportunity to investigate and prosecute war crimes committed by its own armed forces. Only if the sovereign state fails or refuses to do so, can international bodies step in to conduct those investigations and prosecutions such as the International Criminal Court," Prof. Boyle said.

"In this case, U.N. Special Rapporteur Philip Alston has called for such an investigation. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has indicated that he would be prepared to consider such an investigation.

"Now that Defense Minister Rajapaksa has rejected such an investigation by the GOSL itself, under international law the onus is now upon U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a war crimes investigation body with respect to Sri Lanka as he has recently done in Africa," Prof. Boyle added.

"The Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom must pressure Ban Ki-moon to do the right thing here for the Tamils on Sri Lanka," Professor Boyle further said of the role of the U.S.and U.K. in applying pressure to the U.N. to begin investigations of war crimes allegedly committed by the Sri Lanka Army against Tamil civilians.

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[NoEalamInSL]

May 18 (G&M)Canada urged to probe Sri Lankan war crimes. Canada should mount a domestic search for Sri Lankan war criminals and lean hard on the South Asian country to submit to an outside probe of atrocities on both sides during the last months of its war against the Tamil Tigers, says a global conflict-prevention group led by Canadian Louise Arbour. In a report released Monday, a year after the wars end

[NoEalamInSL]

In a report released Monday, a year after the wars end, the International Crisis Group cited reasonable grounds to believe the Sri Lankan security forces committed war crimes by intentionally shelling civilians, hospitals and humanitarian operations in a final push to destroy the separatist Tigers. In turn, the Tigers reportedly shot civilians who tried to flee rebel areas and held others captive in a bid to raise international pressure for a ceasefire.

[NoEalamInSL]

The Brussels-based group, funded by donors and governments including Canadas to study armed conflict and how to avert it, called for a United Nations-backed inquiry to account for a Sri Lankan government victory over the Tigers that came at the cost of immense civilian suffering and an acute challenge to the laws of war.

[NoEalamInSL]

Mar 8 (DM)UN fails to adapt to new world order. If Sri Lanka has committed war crimes no doubt they should be investigated. However, probe should not come as a move to please a few powerful nations who want to checkmate Sri Lanka over its robust and ever growing ties with China, Russia and perhaps even with India. Also the UN should display its neutrality in the whole process by deciding to appoint expert panels on all nations which stand accused of war crimes rather than singling out Sri Lanka

[NoEalamInSL]

Mar 8 (LG) Ministry of Defence hijacks Tiger terror game

Brutality had been a curse for Sri Lanka for the last many years. Despicable acts of revenge were common phenomena among Tamil Tiger groups against dissident Tamil groups for many years. Revenge, arrogance and fascist were definitely the names of Tiger game. Currently, Sri Lankan Government, taking the same arrogant fascist path of LTTE, taking steps to get revenge from political dissenters.

[NoEalamInSL]

Mar 8 (DM) If Sri Lanka has committed war crimes no doubt they should be investigated. However, the probe should not come as a move to please a few powerful nations who want to checkmate Sri Lanka over its robust and ever growing ties with China, Russia and perhaps even with India. Also the UN should display its neutrality in the whole process by deciding to appoint expert panels on all nations which stand accused of war crimes rather than singling out Sri Lanka.

[willesdon]

is terrorisum helthy?..hak hak hoo,

thank u 4 admiting velu`s lying to tamils 4 last 30 years ..hak hakhoo..tamils have now realized how unhelthy to follow a terrorist leader like velu!

[LesegoMot]

lol i think we got it after you said it for the twentieth time

[thrimavithana]

Ya Right Rohan...we Sri Lankas Love Gota we will Spit on Your Thalaivars .....U will be hanged and ate into pieces very soon

[goodbyelonglive44]

ha ha good answer..trying to bring thre baggages to investigate like INtellectuals..

Ha Ha,,

[ciyaaa]

@rohanweb mmmm i think u wont rest of tamils who live in sri lanka to die too.cry rohanweb thats only thing that u can do now.war is over.past is past,just let the true tamils live in srilanka to live in peace.u r not a one of them.war is bad and srilankan army did not start war.its ltte who fucking with our country for 30 years,yet we give them chance to come to peace talks.every time ltte abuse sl government.Rajapakse put it to and end.china and russia india is backing sl. who can hang them?

[loly1969]

king gota dosent take shit from anyone , way to go

[sntrobotics]

@rohanweb You are not value than Gotabaya's shit, my friend!

[TAMiiLSouLjA]

400000 tamils?..what?..what was our leader velu doing whilst all this bad thing happening to our 40000makkal-padia?..shiting in his own kowalam?..runing?..wanking?

why did our velu abandoned us all on mulathive beach & on run? scared of UN??..umm!

[rohanweb]

look at the fucking nazi bastard ..he is talking scared of possible war crimes investigation, must be shitting in hisown pants by now.. comon world, you have punished hard the Hitler, the Milosevic and now why wait, go and get the rajapakse family and the top ranks of the srilanka army and the followers and charge them against war crimes of 40,000+ tamil civilians in mullivaykaal.. hang them NOW !!!