“India should not subject itself again to be charged as supporting genocide by Sri Lanka.”
- BJP national executive member L. Ganesan, on reports India is supportive of Sri Lanka's attack on the UN expert panel's report. See The Hindu’s news brief here.
"I believe that [the] Indians were aware of the civilian casualties that were happening [in 2009], because they had pretty good intelligence inside [Sri Lanka's] siege zone.
"If foreign governments knew what was going on this latter stage of the war and continued to supply arms, then I think it is a matter worthy of investigations in those countries."
- Gordon Weiss, former UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka. See his comments to BBC Sinhala service here.