White Flag Incident Sri Lanka

The officer quoted silva as telling troops on the frontline.

White flag incident sri lanka. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title. Communist party of burma or white flags. The president s brother basil rajapaksa allegedly took the lead in the negotiation of the surrender of the political leaders.

The so called white flag incident is one of several notorious allegations of war crimes including the extrajudicial killing of the 12 year old son of the ltte s leader and the shelling of. One of the most disturbing crimes that silva is accused of directing is the mass murder of surrendering tamil civilians and ltte cadres since dubbed the white flag incident. White flag incident a massacre in sri lanka.

Little rome in shatters white flags in negombo represent despair not peace. Eastern university massacre also known as vantharamulai also vantharoomulai campus massacre refers to the arrest and subsequent mass murder of 158 minority sri. Uncovering sri lanka s white flag incident by frances harrison the stocky tamil man twisted himself nervously inside his thin black anorak ill suited to one of the iciest days of winter as he explained how he turned informer betraying the very man he was supposed to protect in order to save his own life.

The un s gloss on the incident is in paragraphs 170 and 171 of ban s panel of experts report on sri lanka which names silva as well as the permanent. Her account that later became to be known as the white flag incident vehemently denied by the sri lankan government featured prominently in a un report which found that war crimes allegations.