Video: Sri Lanka Ambassador denies use of heavy weapons
“Western governments should treat Sri Lanka as a pariah until it halts its heavy guns. Slaughter is a barbaric end to war,” said UK’s Times newspaper in an editorial on May 13, 2009. But the same day, Sri Lanka government forces shelled the makeshift hospital in the “no fire zone,” killing medical staff and patients.
Today after President Barack Obama called for peace in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan ambassador to the US, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, spoke to Al Jazeera’s Ghida Fakhry and said “yes, we still deny using heavy weapons”:
