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9 Tigers killed, says army

COLOMBO: The military on Sunday claimed that at least nine LTTE cadres were killed in fighting in the north and east in the last 24 hours.

Separately, Rajiva Wijesinha, Head of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) in a statement has questioned the premise of Gareth Evans, CEO of the International Crisis group (ICG), that given the humanitarian crisis, the nation is a potential case for Right to Protection (R2P)/international intervention.

Mr. Evans advanced the thesis at the Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial lecture here last week. “None of the factors necessitating intervention by the international community under the Responsibility to Protect concept as described by Evans himself, viz., genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity or other mass atrocity crimes exist in Sri Lanka,” said Prof. Wijesinha.

He said to talk of potential genocide or an apprehended threat of genocide is excessively alarmist.

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