{"id":151396,"date":"2015-09-26T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=151396"},"modified":"2015-09-26T05:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T23:31:05","slug":"military-in-general-not-guilty-of-war-crimes-foreign-minister-managla-samaraweera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/military-in-general-not-guilty-of-war-crimes-foreign-minister-managla-samaraweera\/","title":{"rendered":"Military In General Not Guilty Of War Crimes: Foreign Minister Managla Samaraweera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mangala+Samaraweera&amp;x=15&amp;y=0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Managla Samaraweera<\/span><\/a> says that a few in the military hierarchy was responsible for crimes and human rights violations during the war against the LTTE and by and large and overwhelming majority of the country\u2019s security forces had behaved in a very humane and responsible manner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_134399\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mangala-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134399\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-134399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mangala-pic-150x143.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign Minister Managla Samaraweera \" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign Minister Managla Samaraweera<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Samaraweera in a statement says that the reputation of the vast majority of Sri Lanka\u2019s military cannot be tarnished by the wrongdoings of a few.<\/p>\n<p>Samaraweera issuing a statement on the tabling of UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Sri Lanka, says \u201cthe international community recognises this fact and the unfortunate reality that the reputation of the vast majority of the armed forces was tainted in the recent past because of the system and culture created by a few in positions of responsibility,\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>To read the Foreign Minister&#8217;s full statement click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/my-comments-on-the-un-resolution-on-sri-lanka\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":134399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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