Hero or war criminal?
LONDON: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was once a human rights activist, campaigning with the mothers of the "disappeared". Now, he is accused of presiding over war crimes and crimes against humanity, and his government actively prevents the families of the "disappeared" from protesting.
After the war ended, Rajapaksa boasted that his "troops went to the battlefront carrying a gun in one hand, the Human Rights Charter in the other". That is not, however, the conclusion of legal experts at the United Nations, who said in a 2011 report that, "the conduct of the war represented a grave assault on the entire regime of international law" and accused the government of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
There's no question that Sri Lanka is run by a family dynasty now, with a third brother, Basil, as the minister for economic development, a son being groomed as the heir apparent and many other relatives in key positions of power.
All in a days work for em politicians. As the saying goes: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! God protect the minorities of SL who seem to be bearing the worst of the brunt of all those political tactics played by their leaders and their henchmen!
That is what politics is all about. Talk something to get power and then something else, even completely opposite, when in power or to remain in power.
war criminal... hear those horrifying stories for yourself from Channel 4 UK
One could say the same about his "friends" - who are now turning against him..
He was once a human rights activist, campaigning with the mothers of the "disappeared". Now, he is accused of presiding over war crimes and crimes against humanity, and his government actively prevents the families of the "disappeared" from protesting. What a way to change colours and policies once they get to be the leader
It is not the first time, Bashar Al Asad was once an arab hero, bcs he was against Israel, Now he is a War Criminal after killing his own people
It is all politics.
It is the same situation in Pakistan also. There appears to be a power-sharing understanding (behind the curtain) between the Sharifs and the Bhutto families. The sons of both families are being groomed to take over power and rule the country turn by turn.