UN questions Lankan Govt

The United Nations has asked the Sri Lankan government to explain its position on the allegations leveled by the former army chief general Sarath Fonseka that three senior Tamil Tiger leaders were executed by soldiers as they came forward to surrender, reports Sutirtho Patranobis.

The United Nations has asked the Sri Lankan government to explain its position on the allegations leveled by the former army chief general Sarath Fonseka that three senior Tamil Tiger leaders were executed by soldiers as they came forward to surrender.

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Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary execution, wrote a letter and submitted it to the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations office at Geneva. The letter was addressed to President Mahinda Rajapaksa.