Demilitarising the North 'unreasonable' - Rajapaksa

by admin
Apr 21, 2012

Responding to the Indian delegation currently visiting Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa said it would be "unreasonable" to expect Sri Lanka to remove the military from Northern province.

Rajapaksa retorted, "Can I send them to India?" 

It was "deployment in Sri Lanka, not on foreign soil," he added.

Rajapaksa's remarks come less than a month after a resolution was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council specifically calling for the demilitarisation of the North, as documented in the government's own inquiry, the LLRC.

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