{"id":69547,"date":"2017-09-07T00:09:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T06:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69547"},"modified":"2017-09-06T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T23:55:39","slug":"the-distasteful-statement-by-the-minister-field-marshall-sarath-foneska-on-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/07\/the-distasteful-statement-by-the-minister-field-marshall-sarath-foneska-on-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"The distasteful statement by the Minister, Field Marshall Sarath Foneska on war crimes."},"content":{"rendered":"

MEDIA RELEASE.Global Sri Lankan Forum Australia<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The statement of the Minister Sarath Fonseka that he would volunteer to testify against Gen.\u00a0 Jagath Jaysooriya, if called upon to prove that the latter had committed war crimes,\u00a0 is indeed distasteful and impetuous. The Minister has repeatedly said on previous occasions that the Defence forces did not commit any war crimes and it was a war to defend the country from the grip of a bunch of terrorists. He may have forgotten his own public utterances on the war as the Commander of the army or was it merely a case of raising a dust to embarrass a brother officer by acting indignantly.<\/p>\n

Sarath Fonseka\u2019s rush of words, added\u00a0 insult to injury\u00a0 when referring the Gen. Jayasooriya\u2019s alleged mishandling of funds etc., which is entirely different to the issue of war crimes. His hasty reactions of wild irrationality failed to identify the pro- LTTE financed push to activate a number of FNGOs in some Latin American countries under the command of the infamous Yasmin Sooka who lead a number of operations to blacken the image of Sri Lanka including being a member of the highly biased Ban-ki Moon commission!<\/p>\n

Fortunately, The President, a number of senior ministers, a good number of Parliamentarians, and members of the Maha Sanagha have registered their voice against this simple-minded approach of the Field Marshal.<\/p>\n

We should not play the giddy goat to achieve the malicious objectives of one\u2019s agenda at the expense of the defence forces which liberated over 285,000 Tamil children and adults from the tyranny of the brutal Tamil Tiger Terrorists and created a liveable space for all the Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n

We trust that\u00a0 Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka will not forget to affirm his much publicised statements assuring the world that\u00a0 war crimes were not committed by the Sri Lankan defence forces.<\/p>\n

While we, the Global Sri Lankan Forum, \u00a0deplore the statement made by the Field Marshall, we call upon all
\nright-thinking leaders and the public to stand firm with the defence forces which helped to create a peaceful Sri Lanka by sacrificing tens of thousands of their members including\u00a0 the thousands that remain disabled or are counted as missing.<\/p>\n

Ranjith Soysa.<\/p>\n

Spokesperson
\nGlobal Sri Lankan Forum Australia<\/p>\n

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MEDIA RELEASE.Global Sri Lankan Forum Australia The statement of the Minister Sarath Fonseka that he would volunteer to testify against Gen.\u00a0 Jagath Jaysooriya, if called upon to prove that the latter had committed war crimes,\u00a0 is indeed distasteful and impetuous. The Minister has repeatedly said on previous occasions that the Defence forces did not commit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}