A statement Tuesday said the former army chief’s reported call for anyone who committed war crimes during the conflict to be prosecuted showed he was « hell-bent on betraying the gallant armed forces of Sri Lanka. » More than 7,000 civilians were killed in the final months of the fighting that crushed the rebels last spring
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s decision follows his sweeping victory at the polls last month over his former army chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka who had defected to the opposition. Fonseka, who last year led government troops in their crushing defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels, was dragged out of his office Monday by military police and arrested on […]