By Saroj Pathirana
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| There needs to be a very serious investigation into what actually happened, says HRW |
There seems to be similarities between the killing of former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and Sri Lanka’s ‘white flag case’, says Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Col Gaddafi had been
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| Sri Lanka forces are accused of executing surrendering LTTE leaders including B Nadesan |
shot in the head in an exchange of fire between Gaddafi loyalists and NTC fighters following his capture in his hometown of Sirte.
“It is not so different from the allegations of the white flag incident in Sri Lanka where LTTE leaders and their families allegedly tried to surrender and allegedly were executed,” Asia director of HRW, Brad Adams told BBC Sinhala service.
Following calls from UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillai for an investigation into the death of Col Gaddafi, the HRW also calls for an urgent probe.
Everybody including Col Gaddafi and LTTE leaders, "no matter how heinous they are and no matter how many people they killed themselves", said Mr Adams, has a right to be “treated properly”.
'War crime?'
“Col Gaddafi had just as much right to be treated properly as anybody else,” said Brad Adams.=============================
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Sri Lanka Tamil killings 'ordered from the top'
Jonathan Miller
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Exclusive: a senior Sri Lankan army commander and frontline soldier tell Channel 4 News that point-blank executions of Tamils at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war were carried out under orders.
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