{"id":151095,"date":"2015-09-19T01:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T20:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=151095"},"modified":"2015-09-24T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T07:43:11","slug":"withholding-perpetrators-names-sirisena-contradicts-princes-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/withholding-perpetrators-names-sirisena-contradicts-princes-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Withholding Perpetrators&#8217; Names: Sirisena Contradicts Prince&#8217;s Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Maithripala+Sirisena&amp;x=13&amp;y=4\">Maithripala Sirisena<\/a><\/span> contradicted the UNHRC boss\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Zeid+Ra\u2019ad+Al+Hussein&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prince Zeid Ra\u2019ad Zeid Al-Hussein<\/span><\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">version of withholding the names of War Crime perpetrators and Human Rights abusers when he spoke to\u00a0media heads and editors at the President\u2019s house yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Maithripala3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Maithripala3.jpg\" alt=\"Maithripala\" width=\"639\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Maithripala3.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Maithripala3-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>President Sirisena said that his government managed to prevent publishing the names of alleged war criminals in the report of the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka.&#8221;If Rasjapaksa were in power, names of perpetrators would have been made public&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">This is contradicting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/16\/un-seeks-special-court-to-investigate-sri-lanka-war-atrocities\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what Hussein said<\/span><\/a> when he released the report. 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