US sanctions will be futile

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JHU General Secretary and Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka said that all foreign expert panels or committees have proven that Sri Lanka had not exceeded the accepted international parameters in warfare when fighting the war.

“The US State Department recently in a media briefing demanded us to produce a report on the war and some wanted us to provide the facts before the September 21 UN General Assembly meeting,” he said.

“While the US accuses us of war crimes, Wikileaks with its accounts of Iraq Logs from US cables, proved that thousands of civilians were killed during operations in Iraq,” he added.

“The West is facing major difficulties today owing to uprisings by far right-wingers since the attacks in Norway,” he said.

“The US threat of economic sanctions would not hold water now as the US itself is gradually plunging into a major economic mess with debts running to trillions of dollars,” he noted.

“Therefore we tell the United States not to disrupt the peaceful environment the people live in following the defeat of the LTTE. We helped the US by vanquishing the LTTE as the Tigers were maintaining strong links with the terrorist outfits that now pose a threat to the US,” Minister Ranawaka said. (By Supun Dias)

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sparks Friday, 12 August 2011 03:25 AM

Again selling crap stories and diverting attention from reality of the local public in the form of buddhism.

I Hussein Friday, 12 August 2011 05:14 AM

Champika has to go and preach bana somewhere and let MR handle the matter with experts and interlectuals.

garawi Friday, 12 August 2011 08:16 AM

Now wait a minute! Yesterday he said that the embargo is delaying the total electrification program and will take longer that expected!!

PuranAppuGe Friday, 12 August 2011 11:03 AM

US excesses in war in Iraq does not qualify Srilanka to do war crimes, do not make tit for tat comment, either say we are subject to war crime or not...........

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