Evidence has emerged of members of Sri Lanka’s Special Task Force, who were deployed to quell anti-Muslim violence, collaborating with rioters, reports Colombo Telegraph.
A video obtained by Colombo Telegraph, shows a rioter humiliating a Muslim victim, whilst the Special Task Force personnel look and laugh.
Confessing to his involvement in the riots, he is heard to say,
“It is because of what I did that you now find yourself on the streets.”
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