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"Don’t cave
into unjustifiable pressures’’
President urges UN chief
to drop war crimes probe
Labour accused of looking for Tamil
votes
President Mahinda Rajapaksa Thursday evening urged UN
General Secretary Ban Ki-moon not to go ahead with an independent
investigation into alleged war crimes during Sri Lanka’s successful war
against the LTTE. Government sources said that the President had
emphasized that the UN shouldn’t give in to unjustifiable pressure
brought on the world body by INGOs and the British government.
Six military ‘suspects’
detained over Lasantha’s killing
Police spokesman SSP Prishantha Jayakody yesterday
(March 6) said that it was too early to say whether former Army Chief
Gen. (retd) Sarath Fonseka would be questioned in connection with the
ongoing investigation into...
