Fake war crimes report to be released before Election

According to a top government spokesman, The government has received information that, plans are made to release a Fake United Nations Human Rights Council’s War Crimes Report, to benefit the election campaign of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

According to the spokesperson, the Fake War Crimes Report is likely to be released locally, within the first week of August, nearly two weeks before the Parliamentary election. In this Fake War Crimes Report, nearly 50 names will be included as War Heroes, against whom war crimes charges have been leveled, the spokesman added. "Among them will be the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the former commanders of the three forces and the top army officers, who played active roles during the final phase of the war," he said. "This Fake War Crime Report is being prepared to create the public sympathy for the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his sibling," he said. "They will be claiming that the United Nations Human Rights Council’s War Crime Report will be sending the war heroes to the Electric Chairs and ask the people to vote for Mahinda Rajapaksa to protect the Sri Lanka's armed sources," the spokesman said. Mahinda Rajapaksa is contesting the election from the Kurunegala district where there is a sizable proportion of voters coming from families of soldiers, demonstrating that the Mahinda Rajapaksa campaign would heavily gravitate towards Sinhala-Buddhist sections of the country. The report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka will be presented at the UNHRC 30th sessions in Geneva from the 14th of September to 2nd of October. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is set to receive an advance copy of the original UNHRC War Crimes Report on the 21st of August. Although the report was scheduled to be presented at the last session in March, the Sri Lankan government managed to delay it by six months through its diplomatic manoeuvres.