Will Shri Mahinda Rajapaksa Take Criminal Responsibility?
by L.Annadoure
“If Somebody from the Army had done that, I must take responsibility!” swore the Sri Lankan President Shri Mahinda Rajapakshe.
( December 11, 2013, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) While being interviewed by ‘The Hindu’ the Sri Lankan President has denied the killing of LTTE Chief Prabakaran’s 12 year old son Balachandran by the Army and he has owned criminal responsibility categorically if some body from the Army had killed the boy and we may hope that the Sri Lankan President would keep his words and bear responsibility in the event of there being sufficient proof that the boy was executed without a formal pronouncement of judgment for the crime for which he would be indicted and prosecuted before the Sri Lankan Criminal court and before he was killed he was given water and biscuits as goats and other animals would be fed on rich fodder before they would be slaughtered. Having Fed the boy with biscuits and given water to drink before he was shot to death was purely an humanitarian work on the part of Sri Lankan Army and the stark reality is, as everybody is aware, the Eelam Tamils were herded into as droves of cattle would be driven, rounded up and cornered in short space and then showered with proscribed weapons like cluster bombs, chemical and incendiary bombs including napalm so as to annihilate them which act was said to be a piece of humanitarian work done by the Sri Lankan Army.
