[May 11, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian]
A special operation has commenced under the President's Secretary to blame former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka for the war crimes that have allegedly taken place according to the international community during the final stages of the war.
The President's advisors are planning on giving publicity to open statements made by Fonseka. The President's Secretary has asked the Media Minister to collect all comments made by Fonseka while in the Army and after retiring from active service.
It has been decided to use the statement made by Fonseka after retiring from the Chief of Defence Staff post where he has said that the President did not have any clear plan on winning the war and that the only contribution by the President was to provide the necessary bullets.
He has also said the guns, tanks and multi barrel rocket launchers were all purchased during former President Chandrika Kumaratunge's tenure and that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had only provided the bullets.
The Defence Secretary has advised that the operation be carried out in a manner that would not place all credit of winning the war on Fonseka.
In order to minimize the allegations of war crimes leveled against the President, his secretary Lalith Weeratunge in an interview with a weekly newspaper said that President Rajapaksa did not have any intension of engaging in a war until the LTTE closed down the Mavilaru aniket and commenced the Eelam IV war.
Weeratunge has said that he was shocked when he heard the President tell the special peace envoy Erik Solheim that he was ready for a war.
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