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War crime probes ‘will hinder Sri Lanka’s reconciliation’

Gotabaya Rajapaksa

War crime investigations backed by some Western countries and the UN will exacerbate the differences between Sri Lanka’s two main ethnic groups instead of uniting them, former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said.

As defense secretary, Gotabaya, the brother of former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, oversaw the defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) by…