{"id":58088,"date":"2012-10-31T08:38:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T08:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=58088"},"modified":"2012-11-02T20:26:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T20:26:44","slug":"wikileaks-we-will-make-sure-the-report-to-congress-is-identified-as-secondary-source-reporting-blake-to-gota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-we-will-make-sure-the-report-to-congress-is-identified-as-secondary-source-reporting-blake-to-gota\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: \u2018We Will Make Sure The Report To Congress Is Identified As Secondary Source Reporting\u2019 \u2013 Blake To Gota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBlake said that the report requested by Congress on potential violations of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity committed during the final stages of the conflict is expected to be released in mid to late October. It is secondary source reporting and we will make sure it is identified as such, Blake said.\u201d the US State Department wrote to US Embassy Colombo.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58089\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-we-will-make-sure-the-report-to-congress-is-identified-as-secondary-source-reporting-blake-to-gota\/blake-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58089\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58089\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58089\" title=\"Blake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Blake1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Blake1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Blake1-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHowever, part of political reconciliation is identifying an accountability process to deal with past human rights abuses and look at what occurred in the final stages of the war. Rajapaksa responded that commissions like these are going to tear the people apart, suggesting that LTTE supporters would exploit the process. He said the government did a lot to control wide-scale abuses, such as those, he implied, that had occurred in the past. Mass rape and village massacres did not occur during the GSL\u2019s campaign, and he pointed again to the positive overall experience in the Eastern Province. In that case, said Blake, the GSL had nothing to fear from a national dialogue and reconciliation. Rajapaksa said the government is committed to winning hearts and minds, but it has only been three months since the end of fighting.\u201d the\u00a0US State Department further wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A classified diplomatic cable which details a meeting the US\u00a0Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Robert+Blake&amp;x=9&amp;y=7\">Robert Blake<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has had with \u00a0Secretary to the Ministry of Difence\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabhaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\">Gotabhaya Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on September 24, 2009 in US.\u00a0The\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span>\u00a0found the related US diplomatic cable from the\u00a0Secretary of State\u00a0section of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=WikiLeaks&amp;x=8&amp;y=7\">WikiLeaks<\/a>\u00a0database. The cable was classified as \u201cConfidential\u201d signed by<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=+Hillary+Clinton&amp;x=10&amp;y=6\">\u00a0Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on September 25 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Related\u00a0stories to this cable;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-after-the-war-gota-blake-meeting-in-america\/\">WikiLeaks: After The War Gota \u2013 Blake Meeting In America<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-eight-thousand-idps-disappeared-gota-to-us\/\">WikiLeaks: Eight Thousand IDPs Disappeared \u2013 Gota To US<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-gota-pleaded-that-he-had-not-received-the-credit-he-deserved-us-state-department\/\">WikiLeaks: Gota Pleaded That He Had Not Received The Credit He Deserved \u2013 US State Department<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":58089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375,27],"tags":[2139,2140,6021,1481,6022],"class_list":["post-58088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories","category-wikileaks","tag-gotabhaya-on-rape-and-murder","tag-gotabhaya-on-reconciliation","tag-gotabhaya-rajapaksa-us-citizen","tag-gotabhaya-rajapaksa-war-crimes","tag-gotabhya-and-blake-meetings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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