Why are we not looking at these war crimes?

 

Despite overwhelming evidence of torture, India is shying away from supporting a US-sponsored resolution to take the Mahinda Rajapaksa government to task, saysSai Manish

Collateral damage? Photographs of a tortured LTTE cadre (top) and Prabhakaran’s son Balachandran

Manmohan Singh and Mahinda Rajapaksa Photo: Benjamin Sugathan

THERE IS little doubt that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s war machinery spared neither a bullet nor a thought for civilians trapped in an ever-shrinking area in the final stages of the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. The United Nations has noted that not only did the Sri Lankan forces disobey all rules of war by deliberately forcing fleeing citizens into areas that were being carpet bombed, their blood-thirsty campaign led to crimes that would even put the warring African militias to shame. Full Story