Gotabaya Rajapaksa had earlier pledged he would not honour the previous government's commitments to the UN. FMTNews
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who oversaw a brutal end to a decades-long conflict with Tamil separatists, said Wednesday the country was withdrawing from a United Nations resolution investigating alleged war crimes.
That agreement was only accepted by the government that took over after the Rajapaksas’ first stint in power. “It is because of the historic betrayal… in co-sponsoring UN Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 in 2015 that other countries are able to name members of our armed forces as violators of human rights,” he said in a statement.
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