A Sri Lankan cabinet minister declared it was against “the law of the land” to remember “dead terrorists” in a press conference with journalists on Thursday.
Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne told reporters that,
“The LTTE terror campaign also challenged the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country. Therefore, our armed forces did not have any other option but to crush the terror campaign using its full might.”
“Therefore, no one can blame our armed forces,” he added. He went on to take aim at the Untied States and European Union, aadding, “Did the US and the EU killed only IS and other Middle East terrorists in Syria, Iraq, Libya or Afghanistan when they bombed those countries?”
“Commemorating dead terrorists is against the law of the land,” he concluded. “But there is no problem in commemorating dead civilians.”