India and Sri Lanka’s war crimes

by admin
Apr 24, 2011

“India should not subject itself again to be charged as supporting genocide by Sri Lanka.”

- BJP national executive member L. Ganesan, on reports India is supportive of Sri Lanka's attack on the UN expert panel's report. See The Hindu’s news brief here.

"I believe that [the] Indians were aware of the civilian casualties that were happening [in 2009], because they had pretty good intelligence inside [Sri Lanka's] siege zone.

"If foreign governments knew what was going on this latter stage of the war and continued to supply arms, then I think it is a matter worthy of investigations in those countries."

- Gordon Weiss, former UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka. See his comments to BBC Sinhala service here. 

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