October 17, 2011 Ben Doherty 
Denial ... Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Australia, Thisara Samarasinghe.
SRI LANKA'S high commissioner to Australia, former admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, should be investigated for war crimes, a brief before the Australian Federal Police says.
The submission, from the International Commission of Jurists' Australian section, has compiled what a source has told the Herald is direct and credible evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Sri Lanka Navy.
There are witnesses - Sri Lankans now living in Australia - who can attest to the alleged crimes, the source said.
The then Admiral Samarasinghe was commander of the navy's eastern and then northern areas, as well as naval chief of staff, in the final years of the bloody civil war against the separatist terrorist group, the Tamil Tigers.
In the final months of fighting in 2009, according to the United Nations, up to 40,000 civilians caught in the north and east were killed when government forces moved against the insurgents.
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US joined UK in declining an invitation for a Defence Ministry seminar in Colombo to share Sri Lanka’s experience in defeating LTTE terrorism in the wake of war crimes allegations targeting Sri Lanka. Full Story>>>
