Germany arrests suspect over alleged Sri Lanka war crimes
German authorities have arrested a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing captured government soldiers as a member of the Tamil Tigers rebel group a decade ago.
Federal prosecutors said a judge ordered Thursday the 36-year-old, identified only as Sivatheeban B. because of German privacy rules, detained pending a potential indictment. He was arrested Wednesday in the Duesseldorf area, suspected of committing war crimes and membership in a foreign terrorist organization.
Prosecutors say he belonged to the Tamil Tigers from 2006-2009. They allege that, in 2008, he tied up 16 soldiers and guarded them as they were driven to a site where they were shot.
Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in 2009 when government forces defeated the rebels, who fought to create a separate state for ethnic minority Tamils.
(AP)
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So here we go. What are those dogs from the UN going to do. This is just one Tiger that was captured because of his arrogance and stupidity.
This missing persons bureau or what ever it is called in SL is another way of punishing the armed forces for wiping out the LTTE. Thiese so called missing persons were soldiers in LTTE and died in the war. But the tamils do not want to admit that their family members were Tigers so they are playing the innocent victims.