Colombo, Jan 10
The Sri Lankan Army Thursday termed as baseless allegations by the US embassy in Colombo that the army was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians at the fag end of the country's three-decade-long war against Tamil rebels.
The US Embassy in Colombo had tweeted a picture of the US ambassador-at-large at the Office of Global Criminal Justice Stephen J. Rapp and US ambassador in Colombo Michele J. Sison inspecting a location in the North which was allegedly shelled during the final stages of the war between the Army and Tamil Tiger rebels or the LTTE.
Army spokesperson Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said the allegation made by the US embassy in the tweet that Sri Lanka Army shelling had killed hundreds of families at the location was completely baseless.
By:IANS