Gotabaya Rajapaksa, ‘Finally’ admits to the killing of 20,000 Tamil Hindus [Sri lanka]

[Reported as seen]

The new Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has finally admitted the 20,000 missing Tamils who vanished during the Nation’s civil war are dead. During his tenure as the country’s defense secretary, he was accused of carrying out mass disappearances and executions of Tamil soldiers.

During the last phase of the war in Sri Lanka with the LTTE, Sri Lankan soldiers massacred thousands of innocent Tamil Hindus.

His move crucially comes as Rajapaksa is about to introduce legislation granting immunity to those who carried out abuses, according to local media reports. Rajapaksa made the announcement during a meeting with a United Nations envoy in Colombo, the country’s capital, and has said official death certificates will be issued.

He said the admission would bring closure to families and he hoped Tamil politicians would not use it as an opportunity to cause unrest. Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war began in 1983 and raged for 26 years, claiming an estimated 1,00,000 lives.

It was fought along ethnic and religious lines and ended with victory for the Buddhist Sinhalese-majority government at the expense of the Hindu Tamil minority which was fighting for Independence.
Rajapaksa, who has carried out the genocide of Tamil Hindus, is the President of Sri Lanka today – which means the danger to Hindus remains. Sadly, the government has taken no steps to put him in place.