Sri Lanka emphasises that terrorists suspects cannot be treated as ordinary criminals.

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Sri Lanka emphasises that terrorists suspects cannot be treated as ordinary criminals.
30 Sep 2010 - 09:24
Defending Sri Lanka’s position against the allegations by the International Commission of Jurists that Sri Lanka has failed to adhere to international law in detaining suspected Tamil Tigers and the detention of nearly 8,000 terrorist suspects for months without a trial is perhaps “the largest mass detention in the world”, the Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Mr. Lakshman Yapa Abeywardhana has told the BBC that suspected Tamil Tiger detainees cannot be treated under the same law as everyone else. He has said that it is “difficult to gather evidence” against the suspected Tamil Tigers from the Northern and Eastern areas.Mr. Yapa has told the BBC, that any country in the world would agree that they could not be treated like ordinary criminals, and has emphasised that the authorities need to keep them for longer to extract more information about their terrorist activities and people involved, and has reiterated that Sri Lanka is an independent nation, and would not bow down to foreign powers in order to get aid.The BBC also reported that the deputy leader of the United National party Mr. Karu Jayasuriya also said that international organisations should not try impose conditions on a Sovereign nation.Courtesy: news.lk