Gota Vs Fonseka in Ordering ‘Death Squads’ to Kill

In testimony filed to court on Monday(20), former army chief Sarath Fonseka indicated this death squad was run by military intelligence but took orders from Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, brother of Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Gotabhaya Rajapakse has been accused of giving orders to a shadowy military outfit allegedly involved in murdering journalists and political dissidents during Sri Lanka’s long-running civil war.

 Gotabhaya denied  any involvement with these killings. If he (Fonseka) knew there was a secret hit squad, what action did he take as army commander?  Gotabhaya posed this question.

Gotabhaya said Fonseka who led Sri Lanka’s armed forces between December 2005 and July 2009 should answer for the excesses carried out by troops under his command.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa denied today any  involvement in war-era death squads, blaming the then army chief for an alleged secretive campaign of extrajudicial murders.