Gotabaya Rajapaksa Questions Credibility Of OISL Report

September 19, 2015

Former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on Friday questioned the credibility of the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) report, stressing that the 'credible evidence' mentioned in the OISL Report was mainly based on the statements given by 'LTTE Diaspora'.

Speaking to media after giving a statement to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, Rajapaksa also said that he may have to be present in front of the Geneva Human Rights Commission one day.

Rajapaksa said that if the war had to be fought while recording minutes of every decision, terrorism would not have been brought to an end.

The recent developments have made him regret his decision of returning to Sri Lanka and helping the then government to end the decade long war, he said. If the war was still continuing, there would not have been these kinds of allegations about misdeeds and corruptions, he asserted.