Mahinda Rajapaksa, his brothers and cronies are masters of deception!
This is what Gotabaya Rajapaksa told "The Australian" newspaper on 23 March 2009:
The UN
may tell you that at least 2,000 civilians have been killed in fighting since January,
but Sri Lanka's
Secretary of Defence, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, says there are none. Absolutely None!
"If
you want to believe me, believe me, no civilian casualties!
In 2009,
the Rajapaksa regime arrested five doctors who worked in the War-zone and
forced them to tell the media that a maximum of 750 civilians were killed in
the final five months of the war!
In 2011,
the regime claimed that around 7,500 civilians were killed!
A doctor
who worked in Sri Lanka's
combat zone in the final days of the civil war told the BBC in March 2014 that he
was forced by the government to retract his claims about casualty figures.
Speaking
to the BBC's Sinhala service, Dr Varatharaja said he and his colleagues had
been threatened with three to four years in jail if they did not recant their
statements.
A UN
investigation said 40,000 people were killed in the final five months alone!
The
regime first dismissed Channel 4's Sri-Lanka Killing Field programme as a fake.
It then said in 2012 that it would use the programme to investigate allegations
of War Crime!
In March
2014, the Sri-Lankan foreign minister said in Geneva that the government would use Channel
4 videos to “identify witnesses.”
Sri
Lankan army to investigate civilian war casualties:
BBC
investigates Sri Lanka
disappearances:
Here are
some examples of how Mahinda Rajapaksa lies:
They lie brazenly
and the lies are not even credible!
