July 23, 2011, 12:00 pm
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN - Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, July 23: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has bluntly denied the charge that his securitty forces had committed "war crimes" against unarmed Tamil civilians during the last stages of the socalled Eelam War that ended 26 months ago.
In an interview to The Hindu newspaper published today, he simply dismissed British TV Channel 4’s controversial documentary "Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields" by calling it a "film."
A panel of United Nations experts and global media have been insisting that at least 10,000 to 40,000 unarmed Tamil civilians may have been killed during the last phase of the war, which ended with the killing of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran on the banks of the Nanthikadal lagoon in the Northern Province on May 18, 2009. Full Story>>>
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Black July: Remembering the 1983 Riots in Sri Lanka
 7/23/11"Shoot! I am telling you, shoot! Shoot and run!" Seelan bellowed. Seelan was demanding that his childhood friend Aruna kill him and escape. Aruna saw tears in Seelan's eyes as Aruna pointed the gun and fired. Seelan collapsed dead. A sudden death in the small village of Messalai in northern Sri Lanka would be the catalyst for what was to become one of the most damaging periods in Sri Lankan history. Seelan and Aruna were both Tamil Tiger cadres, and were being pursued by government forces when Seelan demanded that he be sacrificed. Seelan was one of Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's closest friends. Read Post |
