HOW CAN THE UK SANCTION MILITARY LEADERS FOR ENDING A WAR AGAINST TERRORISM?

Speaking exclusively to Daily Mirror, Rajapaksa accused the UK of maintaining a double standard by sanctioning Sri Lankan military figures while the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remains a banned terrorist organisation in the UK.

- By RAJARATNAM ANTON

“In 2009, Sri Lanka’s armed forces successfully ended a brutal 30-year war against the LTTE after thousands of innocent civilians were killed in terrorist attacks, including bombings in Colombo,” Rajapaksa said. “The LTTE’s massacres spared no one, not even women and children. The North suffered the most, as the LTTE forcibly recruited children as soldiers to further their violent agenda.”