General Fonseka will be executed for treason if he betrays Sri Lanka - Gota. 07june2010

Sri Lanka Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on BBC Hard Talk (Stephen Sackur) that General Fonseka Will Be Tried For Treason And Politicizing The Army. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8725899.stm
BBC: If I may, mr secretary I need to ask you a personal question, are you worried that you personally may be accused of war crimes?
DS: No I am not worried becuase I have not done any crime. Is fighting terrorism a crime?
BBC: depends how you fighted.
DS: There is only one way to fight terrorism. fight!
BBC: If you believe you involve in a war on terror it would not allow you, for example; to give an order to one of your senior officers to shoot (people) who are trying to surrender waving a white flag. still be a war crime?
DS: No I have never given such. No body had done that.
0:42 BBC: You know, that the Army Commander, at the end of the war, (has) since given the interviews, in which he says that he has information that you gave an army commander the instructions to shoot..
DS: No, dont drag these political issues. You know what and who he is? He contested for his personal gains. So dont drag him into this....That is a plitical game..
BBC: I want to talk about that. You keep saying that it is a political game. It is a fact that General Fonseka is in detention, he faces court marshall is that because he in essence, accused you of a war crime? he also said he would testify before independent war crime invesigation. Is that what are frightened of?
DS: Yes. that is one point. He can't do that. He was the commander. He's responsible — that's a treason! We will hang him if he do that! I'm telling you, that's a treason! How can he lie that? How can he betray the country? How can he, buy such lies — if he says that, he is a liar. He is a liar!
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The anxiety related perils of retd.Military Gen. Sarath Fonseka seem to be never ending and mainly because he does not seem to have proper direction in going about how to redeem himself and resorts to wild accusations against the Administration where more often than not he implicates himself in so doing and appears to totally lose control leaving him very vulnerable to greater punitive action during the process of his incarceration. Having played a major role in the victory against the Tamil Tigers albeit never singlehandedly, his ambitions instigated by some who egged him on misguidedly to believe he could ursurp the incumbent President and his administration, he has used all the wrong ploys towards this objective. Furthermore many irregularities have now been revealed which was unbecoming of his status as Maj. General of the Armed Forces now being investigated and he seems to have veritably touted capital punishment after putting his foot into a mire of insignificant, loose tongued, meandering towards a disentitled power, offsetting a frying pan to the fire scenario based upon his modus operandi which has already landed him in jail with a court marial ongoing! It seems little wonder that Sri Lanka's top defence official the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksha has within legitimate reckoning threatened to hang the country's former army chief if he cooperates with any investigation into war crimes during the civil war that ended one year ago and perhaps high time Retd. Gen Foseka either voluntarily muzzled himself from his foolish verbosity or faced the consequences which could be severe. Quick responses to the threat of capital punishment for treason suggested by the Defence Secretary have sprung up from various parts of the world including AFP, UK Guardian, the BBC and Yahoo news who have carried the story headlining its proclamation while being carecully guarded against taking any sides knowing fully well what the consequences of such an outcome might prove to be and the respective stances have been to a greater part impartial. With no mincing of words Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse has told the BBC's Hardtalk programme anchored by Stephen Sackur that Sarath Fonseka, who is currently being court-martialed on separate charges, would be executed as a traitor if he tried to expose alleged speculative war crimes deliberately orchestrated to discredit the Administratiion as well as himself and has probably sent shivers into the Sarath Fonseka camp as well as his supporters within the opposition who are very likey to counter the Defence Secretary's statement yelling "foul " albeit with little ground to stand on as Fonseka has openly stated tha he will co-operate with any investigations into alleged "War Crimes" committd by the Forces, finger pointing at the Defence Secretary when it was he himself who led and directed operations per se on the ground and used his own discretion in all related matters! Every citizen is obliged to protect sovereignty and integrity of a country. Europeans have no moral right to talk on other's war crimes avoiding own atrocities by Blair and Bush.

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[NoEalamInSL]

War crimes investigations in Sri Lanka is unfair and not necessary. Please let this be heard by UN SG Ban Ki-moon over and over again. Do not let tarnish the credibility of UN by appointing a UN war crimes panel against the will of Sri Lanka and without a mandate of UN security council, UN General Assembly and UNHRC. Question is what is UN? UN means Europe? or UN means USA?

[NoEalamInSL]

1:10 When Sackur pulled out what he thought was his trump card that GR ordered even those people waving white flags of surrender should be shot, the GR's rage was palpable. "He is a liar," bristled GR, "and if he continues to say that, he should be hanged because that is treason." Sackur, unaccustomed to hearing such hard talking on his show was visibly taken aback, "You mean to say you would execute him?" asked Sacker "Yes, that's the punishment for treason against your country," countered GR

[NoEalamInSL]

'Govt.should invite Rudrakumaran to visit north east'

JJune 21 (LB) Prof. Rohan Gunaratna an international terrorism expert, interviewed by LAKBIMAnEWS said that it is not the diaspora Tamils but the LTTE that has re-established the Transitional Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) and the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) and that there is no difference between the TGTEand the LTTE or between the GTF and the LTTE.

[NoEalamInSL]

No international war crimes investigation against Sri Lanka for now

June 20 (TC) The Tamil diaspora is likely to be livid. International human rights groups like Human Rights Watch, International Crisis Group and Amnesty International will not be happy. And this certainly was not what Navi Pillai, the UN high commissioner for human rights, had hoped for. Nevertheless, the Sri Lanka Government seems to have pulled it off--if the public statements of several visiting envoys last week

[viduramd]

Hang the fucker hang the fucker.... UN fucking doble faced bitches.. Say our army do crime and deploy them again in their missions... Irony isnt it.. All these fuckers questioning sri lanka just got their own agendas to fulfil.. Dollors make people say bullshit... Look at dat white fucker worrying so much abt SF.. haha.. as if he is his gay bride... like... "wait a min, u mean u gonna execute gen SF? Nooh please i was about to marry him".... * cry face*.....

[NoEalamInSL]

@viduramd, No one should be hanged n no one should investigate war crimes in SL. No use of having postmotum after dead. They should have saved those lives when they were given time to surrender. When enemies attacked from civilians side SL Army took best peventive actions. LTTE was given frequent pardon tmes they did not laydown arms. Lst week 100 couples(frmr LTTE) had mass weddding sponsored by GOSL(package incl house, food, living). Thats the approach Sri Lanka has I dnt think EUns hv a clue

[obamasucksdick99]

if someone tried to surrender i would shoot them, what if it was a trap? the japanese made traps like that in WW2 and it worked really well

[puvanendranMV]

Don't worry he will die soon or he will beaten up by the protesters of Sri Lanka like Egypt very soon, we teachers need to be unite to get rid of this arrogant, he did nothing for our country.

we have to fight against to his hunger government, whether we are tamils or singhalees don't need to care. we need to unite.

thanks

puvanendran kaloogalla maha vidyalaya

[viduramd]

@NoEalamInSL Well... Look at the international preasure they putting and see how much SF contributed to it. Does he mean that, just because Mahinda and he got rivals, the whole country must suffer? Does the whole country means either MR or SF? they should understand that the country is the people.. Not the land not the president nor SF.. If they put sanctions on country, its the people who suffer. Not the political heads. It is us going down..

[NoEalamInSL]

Never justify LTTE terrorism at any cost. Europeans have no clue whats going on in Sri Lanka. Do not talk on behalf of LTTE. Indira Ghandhi created LTTE later LTTE killed her grandson Rajiv Ghandi. Thats karma. Yes buddha said 2500 years ago,if you do a wrong thing to a person it comes back to you. LTTE killed 13 soldiers in North, Tamils helped LTTE & enjoyed muders of Sinhala soldiers, no one stopped them. South Sinhalese killed Tamils!! Sri Lanka fought and won LTTE terroism. No War Crimes!